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Re: Help!!!! With this stupid bug

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Subject: Re: Help!!!! With this stupid bug
From: Kimball Larsen <kimball@kimballlarsen.com>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 23:34:47 -0600
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On May 31, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Karen wrote:

> 
> On May 31, 2010, at 3:12 PM, John Kouraklis wrote:
> 
>> Greg, 
>> 
>> Thanks for the tip. I haven't tried that but I don't know. Is the container
>> transparent?
>> 
>> I will check it
>> 
>> Thanks anyway
> 
> 
> That won't work. Checkboxes always take the window color (even if it does 
> have a backcolor)... This is annoying as even using a separate checkbox and 
> static text does cleanly solve the problem unless you size the checkbox to 
> the exact height and width of the checkbox graphic itself (else you have it 
> surrounded by slivers of window background color) ... But that size varies by 
> OS and OS version - yes i've played that game)
> 
> A feature request for a transparent property for Checkboxes and Radiobuttons 
> is in order I think...
> 
> - karen

Has anyone found a way to work around this?  I've got a major release scheduled 
for next week, and this is making a large enough portion of my UI look horrible 
that I'm going to have to get very creative to fix it.... 


- Kimball
http://www.kimballlarsen.com


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