FORM design customization - help needed!!

Hi,
I'm working on several forms for a project and I was wondering:
1. How do I change the color of a PUSH BUTTON? The default is gray and changing either foreground/background color don't do anything.... I also tried applying visual attributes and SET_ITEM_PROPERTY built-ins but still couldn't resolve it.
2. Any way I can also change the color scheme of the WINDOW itself during run-time? The default is blue gradient on the top and gray all over. I know this might be a hard one as it might involve editing some default setting of FORMS...
Any help is appreciated!
Regards,
Erica

Erica, I assume you are having this problem on Windows. Windows does not expose the button color as runtime property and so Forms cannot set this. This is controlled by the Forms window manager so if you want a button to be green you have to see the windows setting - and this means all buttons will be green.
Is a limitation of Windows.
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

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