I’m using the IOS Design Extensions but I can’t seem to alter the date display text colour using SetTextColorXC
I think I have the right command because it’s defined as “extends picker as MobileDateTimePicker, value as Color” but it just shows black text.
I thought perhaps I need to use SetTintColorXC instead, but that changes the colour of the actual date picker, not the control. Any ideas please?
I think setting the text color only works when the date picker is in compact style.
If it is displayed as wheels, it isn’t possible to change the color.
However it is possible to force the date picker to show white text as if dark mode was activated.
If that’s something you need I can post some code tomorrow.
I’m actually using it in compact mode:-
On the Android version, I just set the caption to “Select” to flag whether I’m using the date or not.
On iOS, I change the label to the left as I can’t change what’s displayed on the DateTimePicker, which is a shame as it’s a whole lot neater and easier on Android:-
Contrast is poor if I can’t change the text colour, though I might change the background colour depending on whether the date is to be used or not.
It would be very useful to be able to change the text colour, especially if there was some way to make it override the TintColor (you can see in the top screenshot that the text changes to the TintColor when the calendar is displayed). At the moment I have the following in the control’s Opening event:-
Me.SetBackgroundColorXC(App.BackGrnd)
Me.SetTextColorXC(&cFFFFFF)
Me.SetTintColorXC(App.BackGrnd)
Me.SetCornerRadiusXC(App.ButtonRadius)
but “Me.SetTextColorXC(&cFFFFFF)” doesn’t appear to change anything.
There are two solutions:
Use a colorgroup with a light background color in light mode and dark color (the current dark blue) in dark mode.
Set the date picker to always display in dark mode resulting in white text:
Add this method to ControlExtensionsXC module
Public Sub SetOverrideUserInterfaceStyleXC(extends control As MobileUIControl, style As ControlExtensionsXC.UIUserInterfaceStyle)
if ExtensionsXC.GetiOSVersionXC >= 13.0 then
declare sub overrideUserInterfaceStyle lib "UIKit.framework" selector "setOverrideUserInterfaceStyle:" (obj as ptr, style As ControlExtensionsXC.UIUserInterfaceStyle)
overrideUserInterfaceStyle(control.Handle, style)
end if
End Sub
Add this Enumeration to ControlExtensionsXC module
Protected Enum UIUserInterfaceStyle
unspecified = 0
light = 1
dark = 2
End Enum
Then set the DateTimePicker color like this:
DatePicker.SetOverrideUserInterfaceStyleXC(ControlExtensionsXC.UIUserInterfaceStyle.dark)
This is the result in my app:
EDIT
Or you can just download the latest version of iOSDesignExtensions from GitHub
That’s perfect - many thanks 
