Background color of CUILabel : public GG::TextControl

[Eloque]

I've been playing around with the guy a bit and wanted to better visualize where CUILabels and such are placed. To this end I wanted to either make a border around them or give them a background color.

However, I am probably overlooking it, but I can't seem to figure out the methods I could use for this. SetColor just changes the textcolor, not the background.

[Geoff the Medio]

Maybe ->Control::SetColor(...) ?

I don't think TextControl is intended to allow setting a background colour.

[Eloque]

I am starting to think you are right in that. Think there is a border possibility? I am quite new with GG and just exploring the code, can't claim much success yet.

I did find: SetBorderColor, trying that one now.

Also, that might be easier, is there somewhere to set the alignment of text?

[Eloque]

Scratch that, wasn't part of TextControl.

[Geoff the Medio]

...is there somewhere to set the alignment of text?

TextControl's constructor has a Flags<TextFormat> format parameter and there is a TextControl::SetTextFormat(Flags<TextFormat> format) function. The flags are defined in FontFwd.h, and there should be numerous examples in the code of their use.