Hi Mark,

PB 2022 already supports setting property expression of Checkbox and RadioButton's Text Color, but does not support setting background color.

You can set the background color by placing a Rectangle Object behind the Checkbox and Radio Button column.  Note: The Checkbox and Radio Button columns need to be transparent.

Below is my test result in PB 2022. It uses the Dark Theme and has set the color of the Checkbox and Radio Button in DW:

Regards,

Ken

Ken,   thanks for the quick response!  To be honest , if the themes supported background color and background expressions for checkboxes and radiobuttons we would not even need any more theme enhancements.   We are trying to workaround this problem.  With our application our customers design their own data entry screens using Infomaker,  then in production we pull in these datawindows, dynamically modify the datawindows to add background color expressions to each field to show status.   So for example a field with a red background has an issue,  a green background means the field had an issue that has been resolved.   We have been using this technique since 1997 and I do not think our customers will be wild about us changing the way we indicate issues.    We could dynamically add a background rectangle behind the radio buttons and checkboxes but this is a change compared to what we currently use.

Here is how it would have to work with themes style radiobuttons and checkboxes where we dynamically create a background rectangle. Unfortunately it will always look like a border since the checkbox/radiobutton background is always white (with themes):

Here is what we currently have:

Is there a possibilty that Appeon would provide theme support for radio button and checkbox background colors and background color expressions in the future?

Thanks, Mark

Hi Mark,

You can find the following description in this document:
https://docs.appeon.com/pb2022/pbug/Specifying_application_properties.html#Configuring_the_custom_theme 
“The user object indicates the custom visual user object only (not the external or standard visual user objects). And the user object which is dynamically created via OpenTab or OpenUserObject method is unsupported to have their own theme settings. Standard visual user objects can have theme settings only when it is placed into the custom visual user object and customized through the container.”

Therefore,
1. The standard visual user object inheriting from datawindow (such as u_dw) is unsupported to have a custom theme. But you can put u_dw in a custom user object to make it u_custom_dw, so that you can customize the theme for u_custom_dw.dw_1 in theme-xxx.json.
2. The user object dynamically created via OpenUserObject is unsupported to have a custom theme.

I have sent the above two limitations of Theme as requirements to the product team, hoping they can support them in future versions.

Regards,
Ken