There was a question about “adjusting the background color of a form” a while ago. There are actually several ways to adjust the background color of a form, and one should know how Smart works on this area to be able to give the app you’re working on a visual face lift.
Since the various methods might interfere with each-other, it’s important to know the dependencies between the various methods. For example, if you set color by code in the OnCreate method, this will ignore the color in the Object Inspector…
I’ll go trough the various methods by using the classical “Calc (by Eric Grange)” demo in the Demos folder.
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