Forms Alert

I have an Oracle generated alert 'Do you want to save the changes you have made?' which correctly gets displayed by the ENTER_QUERY command. However the alert is displayed with a white background and I want to change it to grey to match my own alerts. How do I do this?

Thanks for you reply.
Set_alert_property does not allow you to change the alert background. Also it is a large application with many places that would need changing. My own alerts are OK as I have a visual attribute assigned that sets the background colour. It is only alerts that Forms is generating that are the problem i.e. display with a white background when I want a grey background.
I presume it is a system setting somewhere. I looked at the help and found under 'About Default Visual Attributes' that the setting may be due to the type of object, the resource file in use and the windows manager. Is there a particular resource file I could change?

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