From: John Beckett 

I recently saw a managed XP computer where a group policy change had put a
stupid background wallpaper on the desktop ... and prevented the user from
entering the relevant parts of Display Properties to change it.

What astonished me is that a VB6 program I wrote some years ago shows the
stupid wallpaper in its background.

The program window has a big Richtextbox with: rtb.BackColor =
&H8000000F& (Button Face)

This BackColor is somehow transparent to the wallpaper (moving my window
around shows the fixed desktop wallpaper underneath - it doesn't move).

I'm pretty ignorant about these matters. The wanted background color was
grey, so I must have chosen "Button Face" without realising the
consequences.

It doesn't matter, but I'm curious. Would any standard button show the
wallpaper bleeding through (I didn't notice it in my quick look at the
computer).

I suppose I should have chosen a fixed RGB color if I wanted grey. However,
the standard offerings from VB6 are pretty ugly, and the button face was
just right.

John

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