system colors override

[jspaarg]

Greetings,

I would like to override the conform to system colors attribute on a panel for a single control on a panel

Essentially i need to make one control the BRB (big red button).

However, if I try to make it red I have to uncheck conform to system colors which leads to other problems.

The reason that I want to do this on the source panel is because when I use the SetCtrlAttribute function to change the color, sometimes the color changes back to the standard gray.

There is no place in my code where a color is changed to gray on any other SetCtrlAttribute function call.

That leads me to believe that I am not inadvertantly changing the color back by having a bug with either an incorrect panel handle or control number.

So I assume that CVI is just changing the color back to the source color on its own.

Does anyone know a way of doing this?

Thanks

[RobertoBozzolo]

You can override system setting for individual controls by calling SetCtrlAttribute with ATTR_DISABLE_PANEL_THEME attribute: see here. Next you can set the button color with ATTR_CMD_BUTTON_COLOR attribute.