Turbine.UI.Window & Labels

[lunarwtr]

I have a simple plugin, that creates a class from Turbine.UI.Window, which contains a label that I set text into. Calling SetText on the label seems to be making the Text build up (not clearing the screen region where label is) overtime. It essentially looks like a big pile of font characters ontop of eachother.

When I switch to the Turbine.UI.Lotro.Window, the problem goes away. I thought it might be a blend mode thing, but couldn't tell why. I would prefer to use the base window class so I can have transparency behind the label. Thoughts on how to get this working?

[Equendil]

I've had that issue with pictures, can't really remember much about all I did that didn't work but the following did do the trick:
- No background color set in either the window or controls
- No back color blend mode set in either the window or controls
- Blend mode set to BlendMode.Normal in the controls

May or may not work with labels of course. Blend modes give me a headache, although I'm usually fighting the API to *not* have my controls cause transparent holes into opaque windows.

[Garan]

I noticed a similar issue that was introduced with RoI when I started the Wallet plugin. My workaround for it was to set a back color with no alpha using window:SetBackColor(0,0,0,0). Once a background or backcolor are assigned, the window seems to properly refresh as required (such as when a child control's text changes). I don't know if Turbine considers this to be working as intended, but I believe it to be a bug and you probably should report it as such (I reported it once, but such reports tend to get lost in the shuffle unless more than one person reports it).

[lunarwtr]

Thank you both for fast replies. I'll try these tweaks tonight and see if SuperHappyFunLabel Plugin (j/k) works right. :D

[lunarwtr]

Setting the background color of the window did the trick. Thanks again!