Here is a screen shot of how my app looks from our terminal server. The only thing that bothers me about this is the look of the MessageForm. Is the MessageForm only designed for 16bit color and above?







Thanks

We have a number of Terminal Servers running within our environment and things seem to render properly here.  We are, however, allowing 16-bit colors.  Is there a reason that you cannot do this in your environment?

I think the reason we are still running our terminal servers in 256 color mode was back in the days of dial-up and to conserve as much bandwidth as possible.

i've talked to our network administrator and we're looking into allowing 16bit... i was just wondering if that indeed was why the MessageForm looked weird... was because of the color depth. ;-)

That is why it looked funny.  We use GDI+ to render and are expecting more than 256...actually .NET is.  The reason this looks funny is because the for uses a transparency and is 100% rendered.  When running in 256 colors, you get basically what you saw.

Thanks for the info. Learn something new everyday.

According to my network administrator Windows 2000 Terminal Services only support 256 colors. Just thought i would let you know.

Yeah, actually that is true.  Windows Server 2003 supports 16-bit color.  We don't even have any Windows 2000 servers around anymore.

Thanks. So, do you have a plain version of the MessageForm class? Or would there be a way that I could subclass it and make one. Not that this is your fault, but I was unaware of that limitation under Windows 2000 services and obviously I'm using your Messaging component everywhere in my code.

I am going to have to setup some type of scenario where I can even run in 256 colors.  Just out of curiosity, does this same appearance happen if you run your application on the machine directly (not going through the Terminal Server session)?

Interestingly enough, it does.