Program that can log/control many multimeters and other devices.

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But with a dark background the text will be hard to read.

#cmdSetup separator also supports :color:

I am looking for a way to have a text in a different color dynamically.

Separator is a bit of a special case.

There is a trick that may work, prefix the string with <html>, then you can use some old html codes to control the text (Java never updated its html handling to newer standards). Be a bit careful with it, it may break the formatting (it is used native in some TC stuff).

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So :color: is for buttons (exception is separator).

Why is there not a :fontcolor: option?

Java supports it: button.setForeground(Color.RED);

[HKJ]

So :color: is for buttons (exception is separator).

Documentation says:
:color: Color for an indicator, can be a name or (r,g,b) values. It Is is used on buttonson indicator, "Set" buttons and separator.

Why is there not a :fontcolor: option?

Java supports it: button.setForeground(Color.RED);

From start I wanted a simple to define style for the controls. For that reason I kept settings at a minimum.
Over time some more settings has been added and helped improve the look, usually they are optional, i.e. it is still possible to define they layout in a fairly simple way.

A tag to control font color would not change that, but I do not see much reason for it, most control do not really have a good way to use a fontcolor, info and infoAsk is about the only ones where it could be used.