Colors on dialog boxes

This is going to sound like a newbie question, so bear with me.

I've just started using the Forte IDE - when I create a new dialog box or frame, it uses my default system colors instead of colors I specify. I've confirmed in the autogenerated code that the setBackground and setForeground commands are in place and have the correct colors specified, but the dialogs always show up in grey instead of the colors specified in the code.

If I design the dialog to be sizable and resize the box while the code is executing, the correct colors show up in the newly drawn portion of the dialog, then go back to system colors as soon as the next draw cycle takes place.

What am I missing here?

[719 byte] By [705779] at [2007-11-25 8:38:49]