System color for ButtonText used in unexpected places

[petermad]

If I set the sytem color for ButtonText (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonText) to for example red, it turns out that TC uses ButtonText in a lot of unexpected places - see: http://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/buttontext

Some of these examples might accord to standard, but some of them seem to be using the ButtonText style erroneously.

[MVV]

Wow, huge work! I agree that colors should be unified. It seems that all theese 'wrong' items have property Font.Color set:

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Font.Color = clWindowText

While forms define this color as:

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Font.Color = clBtnText

[ghisler(Author)]

This is not a bug. The dialog background is button face, and the text is button text.

[MVV]

Yes, but we're talking about text colors, not dialog background colors.
Some of controls have text color set explicitly while other ones inherit text color from form, and these two colors are different ones: clWindowText and clBtnText. You can look for Font.Color properties within TC forms to notice that.

[petermad]

The dialog background is button face, and the text is button text.

Yes I am aware of that, but it is not used consistantly in the dialogs - so you end up with a mix of text colors. See http://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/buttontext - it should either be all black or all red in these examples.

Looking at my screenshots it seems like legends for textfields in general uses buttontext color (red) while legends for checkboxes and radiobuttons uses another color (black in my screenshots).

Of course it is not a big problem - I seem to be the only one that happened to run into it. Also many other programs show similar behaviour when ButtonText is set to red - so it is unlikely that anyone would use a setting for ButtonText like this on their system.