Applies to
Windows and most controls
Description
The BackColor property defines the color to be used for the background of an object. When you are defining the background color in a painter, some of the choices take their values from the current Windows color scheme or from custom colors. To add your own colors to the color drop-down list, select Design>Custom Colors before displaying the Properties view. You can also choose Transparent.
Usage
In a painter
To set the background color for a window, MonthCalendar control, or graph:
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Select a color from the BackColor drop-down list on the General page in the window's or graph's Properties view.
To set the background color for other controls:
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Select a color from the BackColor drop-down list on the Font tab page in the control's Properties view.
To set the background color for text objects in graphs:
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Select the desired text object in the Text Object list box on the Text tab page of the graph control's Properties view.
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Select a color from the BackColor drop-down list.
In scripts
The BackColor property takes a long (-2 to 16,777,215) that specifies the numerical value of the background color of windows and other objects. The BackColor value is a combination of values for the red, green, and blue components of the color.
If you do not know the long value for the color, choose Design>Custom Colors to determine the red, green, and blue values and then call the RGB function to specify the color in a script.
The following example sets yellow as the background color for a graph control:
gr_1.BackColor = RGB(255, 255, 0)
For text displayed in the graph, BackColor is a property of a text component, such as labels on an axis.
The following example sets background color to blue for text labels on the Category axis of the graph control:
gr_1.Category.LabelDispAttr.BackColor = RGB(0, 128, 255)
