g.FillColor not working in Paint event

Targets iOS
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Hi all,
I was writing an iOS app that uses a canvas and in the Paint event i need to draw some texts and shapes. I need them white, so I set the g.FillColor and the g.LineColor to be white, but when I run the app the shapes and the texts are transparent. I tried to set them black and they (texts and shapes) don’t disappear. How do I fix that?

[Edited in order to make the post more understandable]

2

You should be using g.ForeColor prior to the calls to g.DrawLine or g.FillRect.

g.FillColor is a read-only value and returns the background colour of the window.

3

Sorry, I forgot to say that I’m using iOS, so there isn’t a ForeColor property, but instead there are FillColor and LineColor

4

Sorry, my bad. I didn’t see that this is in the iOS thread!

5

How are you setting the FillColor and LineColor to white? I do this:

g.LineColor = color.rgb(255, 255, 255)
g.FillColor = color.rgb(255, 255, 255)
6

Thank you Jason, now it works.
I set white color like this:

g.LineColor = &cFFFFFF
g.FillColor = &cFFFFFF

What’s bad in this code?

7

Hmmm. Not sure. That looks as though it should work. I use several constants representing color values that way.

8

Transparency? (Guessing here)