Setting background color for SKLabelNode?

Question

I want to know is there a way to set background color for a SKLabelNode not font color. I'm looking for something like below mentioned code, which is available in ios apps.

     label.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 24 '15 at 17:36

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Try adding the SKLabelNode as a child of a SKSpriteNode.

SKLabelNode *label = [[SKLabelNode alloc]initWithFontNamed:@"Helvetica"];
label.position = CGPointMake(0, -label.frame.size.height/2);

SKSpriteNode *background = [SKSpriteNode spriteNodeWithColor:[UIColor redColor] size:CGSizeMake(label.frame.size.width, label.frame.size.height)];
background.position = CGPointMake(200, 100);

[background addChild:label];
[self addChild:background];

answered Apr 24 '15 at 17:36

Sudeep

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Now text is not shown in `SKLabelNode` and that particular area where I added `SKSpriteNode` is filled with its color. – Jaffer Sheriff Apr 24 '15 at 18:09
Have you set the label.text and label.fontColor properties to ensure that it is visible? – Sudeep Apr 24 '15 at 18:14
Yes . It was all working fine before adding these line of codes. If i give `clearColor` to `SKSpriteNode` then nothing is visible. – Jaffer Sheriff Apr 24 '15 at 18:23

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 12 '17 at 06:46

Adding the SKLabelNode as a child of a SKSpriteNode works but it hides the text. So, I resolved this issue by setting the zPosition of background to a negative number. Here is the swift 3 code:

var label = SKLabelNode(fontNamed: "Helvetica")
label.position = CGPoint(x: CGFloat(0), y: CGFloat(-label.frame.size.height / 2))
var background = SKSpriteNode(color: UIColor.red, size: CGSize(width: CGFloat(label.frame.size.width), height:CGFloat(label.frame.size.height)))background.position = CGPoint(x: CGFloat(200), y: CGFloat(100))
background.zPosition = -1
label.addChild(background)
self.addChild(label)

alternative: add the sklabelnode as a child of the skspritenode. then the text won't be hidden. — Crashalot, Apr 25 '17 at 15:22

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 18 '19 at 00:22

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be sure to include the text value before calculating the background’ GCSize from the label node, else the values returned will be zero as it has no text to determine the size of the label.

..correct about layer issues

answered May 18 '19 at 00:22

Gabby

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Setting background color for SKLabelNode?

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