How to change the color of the background in libgdx labels?

android, java, libgdx

Solution

Label label = new Label(labelText, skin);
Pixmap labelColor = new Pixmap(labelWidth, labelHeight, Pixmap.Format.RGB888);
labelColor.setColor(<your-color-goes-here>);
labelColor.fill();
label.getStyle().background = new Image(new Texture(labelColor)).getDrawable();

Basically, use the getDrawable() function of the Image class to assign the color of your Label's LabelStyles' background Drawable.

This is the simplest workaround I've been able to come up with and, frankly, it's just silly that there is no setBackground() in the Label class.

Actually, maybe the easiest fix is to hack the Label class and add a setBackground() method to it.

[Edit] Be sure to dispose of Pixmaps when you are done with them; i.e. labelColor.dispose();

[Update] @Mitrakov Artem made a good point: The above solution will affect all instances of this LabelStyle. If that's not what you want you can create a new LabelStyle, use the above method on it, then save it to the Label. Quoting Artem: "So I would recommend to create a new style (LabelStyle style = new LabelStyle(label.getStyle());), change its background and then apply it to the label (label.setStyle(style);)"

Problem

I can change the color of the font like this ``` LabelStyle style1 = new LabelStyle(..some font..., Color.valueOf("FF4500") ); label.setStyle(style1); ``` but how do I change the background? right now the background is the same as the background of whole screen which is set in render method lke this ``` Gdx.gl.glClear(GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT); Gdx.gl.glClearColor( 1.000f, 0.980f, 0.941f ,1); ```

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