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background color cannot be set for textfield
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Hi All,
In my toy program, the root view contains a text field control which was added in the UI editor. The background color of the text field is always white regardless of the color setting in UI editor. I also tried to set the color by code and it had no effect on the UI. Any idea?
Thanks.
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@peter put you TextField over an ui.View and play with its opacity, like here
from objc_util import * import ui v = ui.View() v.frame = (0,0,200,50) tf_back = ui.View() tf_back.frame = (10,10,180,30) tf_back.background_color = 'blue' tf_back.corner_radius = 5 v.add_subview(tf_back) tf = ui.TextField() tf.frame = (0,0,tf_back.width,tf_back.height) tf.alpha = 0.9 tf_back.add_subview(tf) v.present('sheet')
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@cvp thank you for the quick response.
Your method works but not ideal because the text also becomes transparent. Is this bug or intended behavior?
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@peter You are right, and I think it is the normal behavior.
There should be an objectiveC solution...Edit: I have tried some ones but without success, up to now
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@peter Eureka (I had used this textField() one year ago and had already forgotten 😢)
from objc_util import * import ui v = ui.View() v.frame = (0,0,200,50) tf = ui.TextField() tf.frame = (10,10,180,30) tf.tint_color = 'black' v.add_subview(tf) tfo = ObjCInstance(tf).textField() tfo.backgroundColor = ObjCClass('UIColor').colorWithRed_green_blue_alpha_(1, 0, 0, 1) v.present('sheet')
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Your objectiveC code worked wonderfully. Thank you again.