Dynamic Unselected Backgroud Color for Alarm tab

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Hello,

I want to assign the the Unselected Background Color of my Alarms tab to a custom property I called StatusColor. This custom property type is Color. StatusColor will change from grey to red in the presence of an alarm. I want StatusColor to define the Unselected Background Color for the Alarm tab. Therefore, I created a scrip under property change in order to assign its color to the Unselected Backgrond Color of the Alarm tab.
However, even though I don’t get a warning or error, my script does not seem to do anything:

from java.awt import Color
color = event.source.StatusColor
tabDataset=event.source.parent.getComponent(‘Tab Strip’).tabData
system.dataset.setValue(tabDataset, 5,17, color)

Could someone help me find out what I’m missing?

Thanks in advance.

Jose

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The system.dataset.setValue() function doesn’t modify the dataset in place – that’s not allowed. Instead, it returns a new dataset with the modification. You must assign that back to the component property.

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pturmel,

Thank you for the clarification. You wouldn’t happen to know the proper way to assign the new dataset back?

Jose

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Like so:

color = event.source.StatusColor
tabStrip = event.source.parent.getComponent('Tab Strip')
tabStrip.tabData = system.dataset.setValue(tabStrip.tabData, 5, 17, color)
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That Worked perfectly. Thank you for your help!