Text color attribute ignored on constructions

[dave-br]

Description of bug / unexpected behavior

Text("test", color=WHITE) does not result in a Text object with color WHITE

Expected behavior

Text("test", color=WHITE) should result in a Text object with color WHITE

How to reproduce the issue

Code for reproducing the problem

    text_obj = Text("test", color=WHITE)
    print(text_obj.text + " " + str(text_obj.get_color()))
    text_obj.set_color(WHITE)
    print(text_obj.text + " " + str(text_obj.get_color()))

EXPECTED OUTPUT:
test #FFFFFF
test #FFFFFF

ACTUAL OUTPUT:
test #000000
test #FFFFFF

System specifications

System Details

• OS Windows 10 19045
• RAM: 16 GB
• Python 3.14.6
• Manim Community v0.20.1
• Installed modules (provide output from pip list):

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distlib                        0.3.8
docutils                       0.20.1
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meson                          1.6.1
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requests                       2.32.3
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sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml  2.0.0
sphinxcontrib-svg2pdfconverter 1.2.3
urllib3                        1.26.20

LaTeX details

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Additional comments

[uwezi]

I can reproduce the result - the color attribute is correctly set for the individual glyphs of the text object though:

class whiteText(Scene):
    def construct(self):
        text_obj = Text("test", color=RED)
        self.add(text_obj)
        print(text_obj.text + " " + str(text_obj[0].get_color()))
        text_obj.set_color(WHITE)
        print(text_obj.text + " " + str(text_obj.get_color()))

test #FC6255
test #FFFFFF

[dave-br]

Sounds useful to know, thanks. I hadn't considered checking the color of individual characters.