Re: OT: Vista

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:06:50 +0000 (UTC), "Slower Than You"
<no.way@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rope wrote:

Nick spoke:
In article <g82a97$htp$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Slower Than You <no.way@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's either a bug in your development tool or in your code.
There's no such thing as "System White" in Windows - I'm guessing
your developer set the label background colour to a system colour
such as COLOR_BACKGROUND which happens to be set up as white on
his development machine, but defaults to black on Vista. That's
his/her fault and his bug will also affect XP users who've
changed the background colour in control panel to black. A rookie
error.

You're quite right - it's an extremely common bug and you can see
it on XP as well if you try different colour schemes. Many people
don't test for this kind of thing.

The developer is me, and it has been tested on lots of different XP
machines with lots of odd colour schemes and all works OK - but not
the LABEL control on Vista machines without changing the colour
attributes.

So it's either a major show-stopping serious compatibility problem in
Vista that only you have found, and Microsoft has failed to notice and
patch in SP1, or you've fucked up somewhere in your code.

"Vista works perfectly well for the majority of users so it must be
fucked."

You're dealing with a person that can't do base level maths so be
prepared for problems with this one.
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