My issue with the background color was how to make a TextAttribute to set the background color of individual characters, not the overall background of the text.
I succeeded, and Pharo 8 has a background text attribute - at least using Rubric - see https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/5326 Christopher - thanks for the hint on doing background colors based on theme. I did do it for the two main themes, and did not try out the larger set of themes. I needed it because I am working on an in-image pillar renderer for class and package comments, and I wanted to be able to do the inline code as done in github markdown. There is a preview of this at: https://github.com/kasperosterbye/PillarRichTextRender Best, Kasper On 19 December 2019 at 23.07.38, Christopher Fuhrman ( christopher.fuhr...@etsmtl.ca) wrote: If you want to consider changing background color that takes into consideration the theme background (e.g. dark or light themes), this code (see it on GitHub) <https://github.com/moosetechnology/Moose-Easy/blob/f7967b310021147792858c576a41a31bdf35d7fd/src/Moose-Easy/MooseEasyFamixMakerPresenter.class.st#L279> can adapt to it: normalColor := Smalltalk ui theme backgroundColor. green := normalColor mixed: 0.8 with: Color green. red := normalColor mixed: 0.8 with: Color red. I didn't really test it with all possibilities of themes, however. On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 at 12:58, Hilaire <hila...@drgeo.eu> wrote: > You should use TextMorph. > > What about: > > || t | > t := TextMorph new. > t backgroundColor: Color blue. > t contents: 'Hello'. > t lock. > t openInWorld|| > | > > Le 19/12/2019 à 15:28, Kasper Osterbye a écrit : > > I was struggling for weeks (not every day, but still) to find out how > > to change the system to be able to give background color to text. > > > -- > Dr. Geo > http://drgeo.eu > > > > -- Christopher Fuhrman, P.Eng., PhD *Professeur au Département de génie logiciel et des technologies de l'information ÉTS (École de technologie supérieure)*
