The information in this article applies to:
- The Microsoft development environment included with:
- Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Edition, versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 5.0
SYMPTOMS
When you customize the window foreground and background colors in Visual
C++ developer studio, not all window colors change. The colors
for the project workspace window and the resource editor window remain
unchanged.
NOTE: To customize window foreground and background colors in Visual C++
developer studio, follow these steps:
- On the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click Format.
- Click All Windows, and then click Text.
RESOLUTION
If you need to change the color for the project workspace and the resource
editor windows, you need to do it from the operating system's control
panel:
- Under Windows 95, click My Computer. Then click Control Panel, and click
Display, and click Appearance.
You can also right-click the desktop window, and then click Properties
to get the Display Properties dialog box. Then click the Appearance tab.
In the Item box, select Window. Then choose the foreground or background
color. This will affect every window in your system.
- Under Windows NT 3.51, choose click Control Panel, and then click Color.
Click Color Palette, and then select Window Background or Window Text
under Screen Element. Then choose the color. This will affect every
window in your system.
- Under Windows NT 4.0, right-click the desktop window, and then click
Properties to get the Display Properties dialog box. Then click the
Appearance tab. In the Item box, select Window. Then choose the
foreground or background color. This will affect every window in your
system.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed
at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will
post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes
available.
MORE INFORMATION
Steps to Reproduce Problem
- On the Developer's Studio Tools menu, click Options to bring up the
Options Dialog box. The Format tab holds the settings for the windows
and text in Developer's Studio.
- Select the All Windows category, and change the foreground or background
color.
- Click OK, and note that all windows except the Workspace window change
color. The color for the resource editor window also remains unchanged.
- In the Options dialog box, click Reset All to restore all of the
original settings.
- In the Format settings, from the category list, select Workspace Window.
Notice that the buttons to change the colors for background and
foreground are disabled (grayed out) and can't be changed.
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