I think I've found a bug in relation to text background properties
In trying to find a way to have a text become opaque to the background: e.g. to have an instruction supersede a barline or anything really, I found a closed support post explaining that in Text Properties the Frame option must be ticked, and then the background and foreground colors have to be matched to the page's background color property, and then finally the alpha channel has to be set to 255. This works, but it feels like there ought to be a simpler way of doing such a thing!
But the bug I mean to say is that if you do this, and it works, but then select that text and change its style to something else, all that goes away. Now, if you press UNDO or do a CTRL+Z, one would expect that those changes for the color background to revert, yet they do not. I think this is a bug. This is with version 2.0.3
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Well, it's not really quite as complicated as your description makes it seem. You don't actually need to change the foreground or backgrounds colors - they are already set to black and white respective. All you need to do is increase the opactiy.
Anyhow, I think you are right that the undo failure to restore the customize text properties is a bug. It seems to be this one: #56411: Undo after changing text style does not restore everything.
In reply to Well, it's not really quite by Marc Sabatella
As far as I can see the border-color of the frame is the foreground-color, and this too has to be changed to the page's background color if one wants no border with the text (actually border-thickness does go to 0.00SP and that works also). It seems that to make a custom Text Style to be reused is the way to go for this. I've also learned that this works well if you want a particular object to have precedence over an element like a barline: have a text like this first of spaces (resize font to taste) and then add for example a crescendo over this text.
...Unless there's another way to do this...I haven't noticed it.
P.S. If you make your own custom style for opaque text as mentioned and then change to a different style and then undo, it turns out to be just fine! Hrm.
In reply to As far as I can see the by worldwideweary
Oh, I was setting ther border width to 0, so I didn't need to mess with the foregound color.