I’ve noticed that on WinXP the background color of mc apps is white. It seems that MacroSoft decided to introduce an new registry entry so they could have menu’s one color and menubars another color. Previously the normal stack backgroundColor has been stored in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors\Menu

but now this is the color of menu panels and the normal backgroundColor is stored in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors\MenuBar

I’ve informed Scott of this problem and await his comments but for now here’s the workaround script:

if word 1 of the systemVersion is "NT" and word 2 of the systemVersion > 5 then
  put queryRegistry("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors\MenuBar") into tColor
  if tColor <> "" then
    put word 1 of tColor,word 2 of tColor,word 3 of tColor into tColor
    set the backgroundColor of this stack to tColor
  end if
end if

If you put it in the startup handler of your main/standalone stack then the correct color is inherited by all other stacks.

Posted 9/14/2002 by Monte Goulding to the MetaCard Mailing List   (See the complete post/thread)