ActiveX Control - Change Background Color ?

I'm new to ActiveX controls, so maybe I'm missing something basic here, but my problem is : I can't change the background color of the control at run time. I can change the background color of other controls within the ActiveX control, but not the color of the ActiveX control itself.

I can say :
Text1.backcolor = vbyellow
Command1.backcolor = vbred

... but what can do for the control itself ?

UserControl.Backcolor = vbblue

whenever you are working with the activex(making the control), the name of your activex control(parent) is always

UserControl

Thanks... that worked great. I do have one more question. I want to put a button on the control, that when clicked, will make the control invisible. I know I can do this from another form that has the control as a component by saying 'mycontrol.visible = false', but it is possible to do this within the user control itself ?

There is no way to make you activex control invisible when a button is clicked which is on the activex control that i know of. But there is a property like "usercontrol.InvisibleAtRuntime". It allows your control to be invisible at runtime.

i hope this helps