Easy one: Different Colors in on settext?

Hi together,

I coded my hole watchface using views and settexts. Now I wanna have one of them having different colors. I know doing with dc and drawtext and so on would solve the problem but I don't wanna change my hole code.

So how is the right spelling or isn't that possible?

Only found dc solutions in the proposals of the forum.

stepCountDisplay.setText(stepCount + "/" + fehlendeTagesschritte.COLOR_RED);


stepCountDisplay.setText(stepCount + "/" + fehlendeTagesschritte.format(color="Gfx.COLOR_RED"));

Both ideas were the easiest way I thought this might work but obviously I used them in a wrong manner. :-)

Is there an easy fix for that?

Regards Marcus

0 dpawlyk over 4 years ago

"whole" (not "hole") -> English is weird.

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Call "setColor" before setting the text.

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/api-docs/Toybox/WatchUi/Text.html

text.setColor(color as Graphics.ColorType) as Void

0 7276067 over 4 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

dpawlyk said:
English is weird.

Yeah it absolutly is - but as you might have written I got one setText() in which I got to variables and I want the second one in another color. I know that I could work with setColor and draw.Text and use to text elements and change the color after the first.but ad far as I know that means I have to kill all of my layouts cause I'm using

View.onUpdate(dc);

That's why a asked for a different solution! Or can one use set.color without dc.draw in a setText as well?

Furthermore I want the two elements to move together and not to have to deal with repositioning if the first variable get's longer.

That's why I asked for a way to give it an extra color just like you would do in Java.

Here you also have a color given for the tag but you can change the color for a word or two.which overrules the color of the tag. That's what I'm looking for.

0 dpawlyk over 4 years ago in reply to 7276067

7276067 said:
That's what I'm looking for.

You aren't going to find it.

The IQ stuff is much lower level. There's no way of changing color attributes in a stream.

0 7276067 over 4 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

Hmmm - I hoped.:-/

0 dpawlyk over 4 years ago in reply to 7276067

Things like Java have essentially limitless resources on very fast computers.

You have to make sure that "wishful thinking" not forget IQ is a very "primitive" system (that's not something most programmers have to deal with).

0 7276067 over 4 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

Thanks!!!

That's why I was asking - cause often there is a way but being not to familiar with a different language you just not sure wether it d´truely isn't. That's why I'm happy if someone familiar to the language knows that it doesn't work like that.

Thanks and have fun!

Regards Marcus