pysimpleGUI how do i find the current background color of an element?

Question

I know I can change the background color of and element in PYsimpleGUI but how do I get the current background color of the item in the current event the following will change the item background color to green window[event].update(background_color='green') however to get the color I am trying something like if event.background_color='green':

here is the while loop

while True:
    event, value = window.Read()
    if event in (psg.WIN_CLOSED, 'Exit'):
        break

    dy_pos =event.find('-')
    if dy_pos>-1:
        print(cur_num_selected,numSelAllowed)
        if cur_num_selected<numSelAllowed:
            selectedDate=event.replace('-','/')+'/'+ str(yr)
            window['-SELDATE-'].update(selectedDate)
            window[event].update(background_color='white',text_color='green')
            cur_num_selected+=1
window.close()```

Answer 1

Well are you the one that sets the background color from the start? If so then just create a variable to store the color or you can leave it empty to begin and everytime you update the color make sure you automatically update the variable as well using a function. Then if you ever need to find out the current color you could just run.

print(event.background_color)

#or just

print(background_color)

Answer 2

So i have not found the answer to my question but I did get a workaround based on the suggestion from Jason. I add the item on the first click to a list. If the event is in the list then I change it back.

if dy_pos>-1:
        print(cur_num_selected,numSelAllowed)
        selectedDate=event.replace('-','/')+'/'+ str(yr)
        if selectedDate in selected_dates:
            window[event].update(background_color='gray',text_color='white')
            selected_dates.remove(selectedDate)
        else:
            if cur_num_selected<numSelAllowed:
                window['-SELDATE-'].update(selectedDate)
                selected_dates.append(selectedDate)
                window[event].update(background_color='white',text_color='green')
                cur_num_selected+=1
    print(selected_dates)