Stacked canvas background color

How on earth do I get the background color of my stacked canvas to be the same as the rest of my form (the default forms grey color)? I have both my main canvas and stacked canvas on the same visual attribute, all with background & foreground colors set to unspecified (at both the canvas and visual attribute level). No matter what, the background of the stack is white. I've tried setting it at runtime, but the color is slightly different on each machine used. I've tried everything I can think of -- any ideas? Thanks.

Well the problem is that we want the background surrounding our main canvas to be white (that way the tabs up top are white too) and the form itself in the main canvas to be the default grey (that is our standard). Changing the background to gray or some other color in the visual attribute changes both the white background and the default form's grey to that one color, which doesn't really fix the problem at all. If it's left as unspecified, we get the white background and the default forms grey for the background color of the form. The stacked canvas always wants the white.

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