The background color of my layout body is a black.

I have a portal sitting on top with alternating white/light grey background fills.

The field on the portal row is set to transparent.

In BROWSE mode that's fine, as the field reveals the color of the portal row below.

However, In FIND mode, because the field is transparent, it is showing the black background color of the body fill.

Is there anyway to control the field background color in FIND mode so that it doesn't show the black background color of the body fill. If i add a color to the field, instead of being transparent, then it looks odd against the alternating portal field rows.

All in FM11

Many thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

Use conditional formatting using get window mode, find mode returns 1.

Unfortunately that only part works. Yes the field gets the given background shade set in the conditional formatting when entering FIND mode, but as soon as you click in the field, it reverts to the base background color.

Any other possible options?