don't inherit the controls colours from the parent - at least for the background colour this is not the right thing to do

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@14314 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775

src/common/ctrlcmn.cpp

@@ -92,8 +92,14 @@ bool wxControlBase::CreateControl(wxWindowBase *parent,
 // inherit colour and font settings from the parent window
 void wxControlBase::InheritAttributes()
 {
+    // it definitely doesn't make sense to inherit the background colour as the
+    // controls typically have their own standard one and probably not the
+    // foreground neither?
+#if 0
     SetBackgroundColour(GetParent()->GetBackgroundColour());
     SetForegroundColour(GetParent()->GetForegroundColour());
+#endif // 0
+
     SetFont(GetParent()->GetFont());
 }
 

src/msw/statbox.cpp

@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ bool wxStaticBox::Create(wxWindow *parent,
                            WS_EX_TRANSPARENT) )
         return FALSE;
 
+    // to be transparent we should have the same colour as the parent as well
+    SetBackgroundColour(GetParent()->GetBackgroundColour());
+
     return TRUE;
 }