perlquestion sdetweil not technically a perl question, but app written in Perl, and the widest skill base is clearly here. <br><br> so, my users want to change the colors of one of the windows in our application.. <br><br> it is a wxPerl wxTextCtrl <br><br> the code does a wxSetForegroundColour() and wxSetBackgroundColour(), and then does a window->Update <br><br> the background changes. the foreground does not.. except, when we write more info to the window, it comes out with the new foreground color. <br><br> <code> # in RGB colors $detailsInfo->SetBackgroundColour(Wx::Colour->new($tokens[1], $tokens[2], $tokens[3])); $detailsInfo->SetForegroundColour(Wx::Colour->new($tokens[1], $tokens[2], $tokens[3])); $detailsInfo->Refresh(); </code> we tried $detailsInfo->Update(); <br><br> of course this only fails on *ix, on Windows it behaves as expected. <br><br> so there must be some rules about a multiline text control in gtk that I don't understand.