
VB5 Learning- Background color stays black?
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:55:41 -0500, Christopher Purola
Quote:
>I'm learning Visual Basic 5.0 and have run into a problem.
>When we started the first program, the background color
>for FORM 1, was gray. After running Visual Basic a few
>times, whenever I started a new form the background would
>be black with gray dots for the grid. I have tried to change the
>black to another color by changing the forecolor and backcolor
>properties, but when I got it to look right in the programming window
>(backcolor black, forecolor gray), when the program was run, the
>background of the form was black. If I change the colors so that
>they look right in the running program, in the programming window
>I can't see the grid lines because they are the same color as the rest
>of the background, so, I need help. Is this normal or can it be fixed?
>-Chris
I have encountered the same problem before. Usually it fixes itself
if I restart the computer but once I had to re-install VB5