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Add TextBox background

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
embedded-iot

Research direction

The issue does not name a file or test. Find the TextBox implementation and inspect how its rendering region is handled, then check existing embedded-graphics background or fill APIs. Done means TextBox exposes a background color setting that prevents previous content from remaining during redraws without requiring callers to clear the region first.

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Description

enhancement

Currently e-t doesn't support a background color setting for the entire text box. Having this feature would be useful if you want to dynamically update the content of a text box. Otherwise you need to clear the text box region before redrawing the text box to make sure none of the previous content remains. This can lead to a flickering display, if it is updated directly and doesn't use a framebuffer with explicit flushing.

Dominant language
Rust
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76
Forks
7
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