Unable to select "Highlight" color for text with rectangle or circle frame
Reported version
3.6
Type
Performance
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
by design
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
When editing text properties via the Inspector, there is an option to add a rectangular or circular frame. There are properties for the border and highlight color of the frame, but only the border color seems to work. The highlight color is grayed out, though it is possible to select a color for it. If a color is selected though, nothing happens and the box remains grayed out. Musescore does seem to think it's made a change, as the "reset to style" and "set as style" buttons next to the color box become enabled, but no actual change to the color box or score takes place.
I've also tried this in the Format -> Style settings, but the same thing happens.
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Comments
It's not greyed out, it's just that the default color is transparent and thus doesn't show as anything. And when you changed it, you didn't change the transparency (the field called "alpha channel" in the color picker dialog) from the default of 0 (fully transparent). Set it to 255 for fully opaque, or some value between 0 and 255 for varying degrees of translucence.
You have to choose the color and set the value of the "alpha-channel" to a value greater than the 0.
example: solid: 255, 50% transparent: 128 , 25% transparent: 64, etc...
Oh my goodness, I feel dumb haha. I just completely forgot to check the alpha channel. Thanks for the replies!