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Would it be possible to add a background color keyword for the annotate command in the scripting API?

Thanks,
Joleen

Hi Joleen -

I wrote up adding this functionality to annotate as Inquiry 2309. It's possible to add a background color to text added through the Drawing Control Widget in the GUI, so I agree that this would be good to add to scripting.

Thanks for requesting this -
Bob Carp

Hi Joleen -

In today's nightly, there's a new keyword in annotate() called 'bgColor'. It is used in the same way as the 'color' keyword. For example, you could run:

And this creates a display of:

If you give this bgColor keyword a try and run into any problems, please let us know.

Thanks -
Bob

Thanks Bob. This looks very useful, I will let you know if I run into any difficulty.

Joleen