Support background color for a range of text

[ghost]

Hi Tomas,
I am in the process of implementing a highlighting method.
I am doing this simple code. I verified all values, they are all fine.

tempStype = "-fx-background-color: yellow;" ;
indexRange =richText.getSelection();
richText.setStyle(indexRange.getStart(), indexRange.getEnd(), tempStyle);

I notice a change in the range style, but the background is not affected. Is it broken? Can you verify?

[TomasMikula]

Hi Maher,

this is currently not supported. Whatever style you assign to a range ends up being applied to a Text node. Text node itself does not support background color. I suppose it would be possible to extend Text to support this, but I would have to research it more thoroughly.

[ghost]

Hi Tomas, As an alternative, I will use the "-fx-strikethrough: true" "-fx-strikethroug: false" to highlight ranges in a way that does change their appearance much. I am trying to avoid changing other parameters.

[TomasMikula]

Hi Maher,

maybe you will prefer the dropshadow effect:

-fx-effect: dropshadow(gaussian, yellow, 3, 1, 0, 0);

[TomasMikula]

This is now resolved by #166 thanks to @MewesK. The name of the property is -fx-background-fill.