Available for all objects except ToolBar, StatusBar, ProgressBar, TabStrip, UpDown, IpAddress, ImageCombo, Calendar, DateTime, HotKey and Header.
Read/Write at design time
Read/Write at run time
Specifies the background color for an object. The value for this property must be an RGB color or a system color.
When referring to ImageList objects, this property can be set to CLR_NONE (0xFFFFFFFF) which means that the ImageList has no background color and the images are drawn transparently.
REMARKS: The most significant
byte of
this property specifies whether the color is an
RGB value (00H)
or a system color (80H),
while the other three bytes are
the corresponding RGB values. For example, a value 00FF0000H
means blue, 0000FF00H
means green and 000000FFH
means red, while 80000005H
means the system color
number 5 (COLOR_WINDOW).
WARNING: This property may have no effect for some controls when the new common controls 6.0 are used (see Enabling XP themes).