nb165 Set Text Colour Black

[Chris Ward]

If you try to set the Text Colour for a Label to Black, it sets to Default instead. In theory, default could be anything depending on the device..........?

[Peregrine Developers]

Have you tried setting the text color with blocks when the screen initializes?  

[Chris Ward]

I know I we can do that Peregrine :)

Just reporting what appears to be a tiny bug.

[Evan Patton]

Hi Chris,

I think this bug was introduced when we added the custom color picker. App Inventor is optimized to not send the default value of a property. Therefore, when you pick the color that is also the default (in this case, black), the selection is set to default because semantically they are the same--or at least they were until we added the Dark theme.

Note that the default value is hard-coded in App Inventor and is not device specific. For Labels, it will be COLOR_BLACK unless the theme is set to Dark, in which case default will be COLOR_WHITE so that the label text will appear on the black screen background. I think this is really only a bug that will affect users who opt to use the dark theme but won't otherwise be a problem. I have filed this as issue #1127 until we determine the best course of action.

Regards,

Evan

[Peregrine Developers]

Apologies, I must have sounded like I was insulting your intelligence, I was simply wondering if that worked instead of doing it the normal way. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Chris Ward]

Unfortunately, there isn't any intelligence here to be insulted!

[Peregrine Developers]

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