TextEditor::backgroundColourId changes?

General JUCE discussion
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I use a lookandfeel class and set the TextEditor::backgroundColourId in the constructor. Then painting the background with:

void MyLookAndFeel::fillTextEditorBackground (Graphics& g, int /*width*/, int /*height*/, TextEditor& textEditor) { g.fillAll (textEditor.findColour (TextEditor::backgroundColourId)); }

All is fine, except as soon as text is entered in the texteditor, the background color resets to white…

Changing to:

void MyLookAndFeel::fillTextEditorBackground (Graphics& g, int /*width*/, int /*height*/, TextEditor& textEditor) { g.fillAll (LookAndFeel::findColour (TextEditor::backgroundColourId)); }

solves the problem, but is this the right way to do this?

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Yes, you’re probably best to do it that way if you want to override the background colour that’s set in the texteditor itself.