Thanks Ken. Sounds like an upgrade to r2 might be worth looking into.

Hi Colin,

UI Theme does not support set the background colour for grid datawindows to be different than all other datawindows.

Currently, Grid Style can support setting unselect/selected row background color, so if you want to change the background color for DW, we suggest that you can work it around by changing these two colors as shown below:

                                "grid-style":

                                {

                                                "drawing":true,

                                                "head-band":

                                                {

                                                                "background-color":"#0078D7",

                                                                "dwo-text-font":{"color":"#FFFFFF"}

                                                },

                                                "detail-band":

                                                {

                                                                "selected-row-text-color":"#000000",

                                                                "selected-row-background-color":"#CDE8FF",

                                                                "unselected-row-background-color":"#FFFFFF"

                                                },

If the above workaround does not meet your requirements, it’s recommended that you upgrade to PB 2019 R2, which supports custom Theme. You can set the background color of the specified DW in the specified window, not only Grid Style DW, but also any DW or other controls on the window. For details, please refer to the following link:

https://docs.appeon.com/appeon_online_help/pb2019r2/pbug/ch04s04.html#Configuring_theme_settings_for_individual_controls 

Regards,

Ken

Thanks for the help. I tried applying the following hoping that it would set all grid datawindows to a black background and but it did not work. Did I miss something in the syntax?

"datawindow":
    {
    "drawing": true,

     "grid-style":
        {
      "drawing": true,
      "background-color":"#000000"

        }

     }

You can overwrite the global theme settings on a per-object basis.  Take a look at the "Custom theme definition files for selected objects or controls" section of this tech article: https://community.appeon.com/index.php/articles-blogs/tutorials-articles/2-powerbuilder/301-applying-a-new-ui-theme-to-your-application-2