Custom background color in Delphi with runtime themes enabled

Question

I'm creating a bunch of Panels on runtime and I want to change their color. Color property doesn't work and I don't want turn of runtime themes.

I'm using Delphi XE3.

Answer 1

Remove seClient from StyleElements and set ParentBackground to false.

aPanel.StyleElements :=  Panel1.StyleElements - [seClient];
aPanel.ParentBackground := False;
aPanel.Color := clLime;