So effectively we need more control of edit control colours?
Would be helpful ... but the combobox / edit control is not the only part where I miss the control about the colors. For example see the red areas in the screenshot.
In all this areas you have none or reduced control about the colours. Maybe we will get it sometime to make our skins prefect.
If I do File > Open in notepad, I get black text on a white background.
So MC is going to use this same black text against whatever background color is defined in the skin?
In this case, black on dark?
You are right, MC uses the colors of the standard combobox / edit control for the text and the background image defined in the main.xml. So in case of the MC skin "2nd Stage" and using the Windows XP standard theme you will get black on black.
Beatnik