hi all,

I have noticed a strange problem with Radio buttons.

My radio button is in a wrap panel as below. All is fine if i run the app under vista. But if i run the app using XP or server2003, the selected radio button appears to a white color. I can just about see it in XP but can not see anything when selecting the button in server 2003.

My foreground is settoa white font, does this make a selected radio button be white in xp and server 2003? I there a method to set the color of the checked radio button?

Thanks a million for any advice,
ro

<WrapPanel Margin="0,0,25,19" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Width="331" Height="35">

<RadioButton Background="White" Foreground="White" x:Name="radioLast7" Content="Last 7 Days" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Checked="radioLast7_Checked" IsChecked="True"></RadioButton>

llows

ronan001,
I have noticed that in Windows Classic Theme used by XP and 2003, the selected item color changes automatically to have a high contrast with the rest of the control. So if you have a light control, it will be dark, and if you have a dark control, it will be light. When you explicitly set the colors for some parts, the other parts still behave the same old way.
I have had to bypass this for customized control by checking the OS version and presenting with a different default template.

Basically, with Themes in Windows, assigning an explicit color to a control could have its consequences. Best would be to use a System.Color so that it changes with Theme to the appropriate look.

Hope this helps.

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noorbakhsh

Just templating the control. RadioButton does its own drawing as you can confirm by checking its visual children:

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ronan001,
I have noticed that in Windows Classic Theme used by XP and 2003, the selected item color changes automatically to have a high contrast with the rest of the control. So if you have a light control, it will be dark, and if you have a dark control, it will be light. When you explicitly set the colors for some parts, the other parts still behave the same old way.
I have had to bypass this for customized control by checking the OS version and presenting with a different default template.

Basically, with Themes in Windows, assigning an explicit color to a control could have its consequences. Best would be to use a System.Color so that it changes with Theme to the appropriate look.

Hope this helps.

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noorbakhsh