How do restore the label background colour to mimic its’ GroupBox back

[JerryAttrick]

Part of a project has labels in a GroupBox. Originally if I changed the GroupBox colour then the label background colour matched the box. The same was true when I changed back.

Recently I’ve been experimenting with changing colours. After my tinkering, if I change the GroupBox background colour the label background colour no longer mimics it. Clearly I’ve unwittingly changed a setting, but I can’t figure out what. How can I get back to the original setting?

 

[BobbaFet]

maybe try something like

label1.color := groupbox1.color;

BobbaFet

Everyone has a right to my opinion.
Great Delphi Websites faq102-5352

 

[JerryAttrick]

Thanks BobbaFET. Since writing the plea for help I got b****y-minded and tried changing every setting in the Properties section in Object Inspector. I found the trick is to change the ‘ParentColor’ back to TRUE. If you ever change the background colour of a label to be different to the background colour of the GroupBox then the ParentColor changes to FALSE (I had what my boss used to call a BFO - “Blinding Flash of the Obvious” ! ). Now the label colour slavishly follows the GroupBox colour once more, until such time as one changes it to something different.

Jerry

 

[bledazemi]

There is also the Transparent property that deserves attention