What color is the border and what color do you get?
Is the window in question using themes or is it set to use a specific color?
I would only expect the code shown to return the color defined in the current theme for the border color no matter if that is the color used by the window or not.
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What color is the border and what color do you get?
Is the window in question using themes or is it set to use a specific color?
I would only expect the code shown to return the color defined in the current theme for the border color no matter if that is the color used by the window or not.
The color is 69C8F0 but I get 80000010
I am using win8.1
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