How to set colored text in Multiline Entry

[sahilpaudel-pe]

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I am creating RichText using as below

richText := widget.NewMultiLineEntry()
richTextContainer := container.NewScroll(richText)
richTextContainer.SetMinSize(fyne.NewSize(800, 300))

I am using it to print my logs in the application ui it can be error warn info and there color associated with it.

Is it possible to construct a solution with the existing API?

I tried all the resources around the web I could but couldn’t find the solution.

Describe the solution you'd like to see.

richText := widget.NewMultiLineEntry()
richTextContainer := container.NewScroll(richText)
richTextContainer.SetMinSize(fyne.NewSize(800, 300))


// expecting something like
richText.append(someText, "red")
richText.append(someText, "blue")

[dweymouth]

Please use Discussions for questions instead of Issues next time. I believe you are looking for the ColorName property of the RichTextStyle struct, which can be applied to a widget.TextSegment and appended to a RichText: https://docs.fyne.io/api/v2.5/widget/richtextstyle.html

[sahilpaudel-pe]

Hey @dweymouth Sure thing will do next time.

Trying out this for the first time tried few things from the doc like below but it didn't work for me.

newSegment := &widget.TextSegment{
		Text: message,
		Style: widget.RichTextStyle{
			ColorName: fyne.ThemeColorName("ColorNamePrimary"),
			TextStyle: fyne.TextStyle{Bold: true},
		},
	}

	sc.RichTextContent = append(sc.RichTextContent, newSegment)
	sc.RichText = widget.NewRichText(sc.RichTextContent...)
	sc.RichText.Refresh()

[dweymouth]

you want ColorName: theme.ColorNamePrimary

[andydotxyz]

Just for clarity, Entry is not a rich text widget - it is like Label but editable. Maybe you need the proposed RichTextEntry?