- Status: open --> closed-migrated
As the subject of his master's thesis, a student introduced several substantial enhancements to the Whiteboard. The Swamp Tramps split up the resulting patch and put all on a branch in Gerrit. For the sake of brevity, I'll call this enhanced and newly reintegrated Whiteboard "Whiteboard DH". You will see this name in some other places in the issue tracker, too.
In Whiteboard DH, one cannot create objects with a colour other than black (if that's a colour). And the fill button doesn't cause objects to be drawn filled, either.
In the old Whiteboard colours worked like this: In a colour chooser you set foreground and background colour and new objects looked these colours up on creation. Now new objects are passed the colour in their constructors, but something goes wrong before or after this. An interesting point is that LayoutElementRecord.getColor()
never enters the if
-Block.