Using StyledString to change text colors does not work well w/ themes. Is there another way?

[TwoClocks]

I have a SelectView and want to change various lines' color. Easy enough, wrap them in a StyledString with a ColorStyle::front() style. Except this doesn't work well with the theme/palette. This sets the foreground color and does not change it no matter what. It makes it very hard to read when they are Highlight or HighlightInactive. It's hard to pick a single color that is readable over light and dark colors.

Is there a way to get the StyledString to only set the color when Primary is asked for? Or alternative allow a Palette as a Style instead of just a front/back color?

Or am I doing this entirely the wrong way, to begin with?

[gyscos]

Right now highlighting indeed doesn't work well with themes or styled strings.

I think rather than overriding back and front color, I may change it to just swap front and back colors.

I like the idea of giving more control to this highlighting behavior, but I'm not sure assigning a full palette to each styled span is the best solution.

[TwoClocks]

yeah, the full palette to set a color seems like overkill. But the concept already exists in the code.

I guess you could look at the colors, and pick either the front or the back color depending on which would give the most contrast vs the theme chosen highlight/background at the moment..