I have noticed this for many releases now but have never thought to mention to date. If you copy (or duplicate) a control that has Transparent Background selected, the new copy loses this property. It would be nice to have this property copy correctly.

I tried copying and pasting and duplicating a text box control in NWare 1.4.4 and the "Transparent Background" property was copied correctly.
Was this the control you used when you saw the problem?
Are you using a version of NWare prior to 1.4.4?
Andy.