How to set the foreground colour with sprite spriteWithText

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I am trying to use the sprite spriteWithText helper method to draw some static text on a help screen. However I need the background to be black and the foreground to be white.
How do I do this?

I see that there is an option to set the background color (gfx.kColorBlack), does this also set the foreground?

Do I need to do something with playdate.graphics.kDrawModeFillWhite

Thanks in advance

2

Here are a couple of options:

  1. Pass playdate.graphics.kDrawModeInverted into playdate.graphics.sprite:setImageDrawMode.
  2. Get the sprite's image, invert the image, and set the sprite's image to that inverted image.
3

A more straightforward way might be to set the graphics image draw mode to inverted before creating the sprite, and using a black background for the sprite.

playdate.graphics.setImageDrawMode(playdate.graphics.kDrawModeInverted)
playdate.graphics.sprite.spriteWithText(
	'something',
	400,
	240,
	playdate.graphics.kColorBlack
)