Re: the Foreground and Font of a control are inherited from their parent control

[Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 at 22:43, Charlie Reinl <Karl.Reinl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Salut,
>
> another problem with ‘The foreground and font of a control are
> inherited from its parent control’ on comboboxes you cannot override
> the parents foreground. After changing the foreground colour, it
> retains the parent colour (at least on Frames).
> --
> Amicalement
> Charlie


Hmm he's right.  but only it seems when ReadOnly is True.  both toolkits
behave the same, if combobox is NOT ReadOnly it uses it's Foreground, if it
is ReadOnly then it inherits the parents Foreground.

Respects
BruceS