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Color markup language does not work for Scene2D Labels

See original GitHub issue

Apparently it’s because Label wipes out the color specified in the markup language with its own Color property. The text does get parsed (i.e. [RED]velvet turns into velvet), but not recolored.

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Created 9 years ago
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NathanSweetcommented, Dec 27, 2017

@kalexmills Probably makes sense to comment on PR #2387 instead of commenting here and linking the PR. 😃

If BitmapFontData markupEnabled is true, GlyphLayout parses colors. Label just uses a font, so just give it a font with color markup enabled.

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kalexmillscommented, Dec 23, 2017

I can’t seem to tell how this change is meant to be used in a label to draw multiple colors in a label. From what I understand of the commit, the only merged change from that class was to use .font instead of .color

It seems that the intent was to give Label a way to append text, rather than resetting the entire text. Should we add an appendText method, to allow users to add some text to a Label, change the color, then add more text (which will use the new Color))?

Or maybe I am missing something crucial. Still new to this library (which, so far, is awesome.)

Referencing the commit below: https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/pull/2387/files

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