TTabSheet.Font.Color Windows 2K

[chrnobel]

I am normally developing under Linux, and when setting font color for at TTabSheet (for graying out inactive tabsheets) like this:

TTabSheet.Font.Color:=clGray;

anything works as expected.

However when I use W2K on a virtual machine (only used for compiling my programs) my project compiles without problems, but now the color for the tabsheet cannot be set - it is always black.

Any clues?