From 4ce3dd2d39e31a46d29a714e0ffff7bee1f5e76a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Stein <andrew1stein@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 20:21:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add TextColor property to set base text color at runtime

The internal plumbing (TextControlBoxDesign.TextColor, DesignHelper.TextColorBrush/CreateColorResources, and TextRenderer drawing body text with TextColorBrush) already existed; the only way to change it was to replace the whole Design object. Expose a granular public TextColor property on CoreTextControlBox and the public TextControlBox wrapper that updates the design color, rebuilds the brush and redraws, mirroring the other granular properties.
---
 TextControlBox/Core/CoreTextControlBox.xaml.cs | 15 +++++++++++++++
 TextControlBox/TextControlBox.cs               | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/TextControlBox/Core/CoreTextControlBox.xaml.cs b/TextControlBox/Core/CoreTextControlBox.xaml.cs
index 0e26204..98ac107 100644
--- a/TextControlBox/Core/CoreTextControlBox.xaml.cs
+++ b/TextControlBox/Core/CoreTextControlBox.xaml.cs
@@ -1076,6 +1076,21 @@ public TextControlBoxDesign Design
         set => designHelper.Design = value;
     }
 
+    public Windows.UI.Color TextColor
+    {
+        get => designHelper._Design.TextColor;
+        set
+        {
+            if (designHelper._Design.TextColor.Equals(value))
+                return;
+
+            designHelper._Design.TextColor = value;
+            designHelper.ColorResourcesCreated = false;
+            textRenderer.NeedsUpdateTextLayout = true;
+            canvasUpdateManager.UpdateAll();
+        }
+    }
+
     public bool ShowLineNumbers
     {
         get => lineNumberManager._ShowLineNumbers;
diff --git a/TextControlBox/TextControlBox.cs b/TextControlBox/TextControlBox.cs
index 3bcb65c..1332f6e 100644
--- a/TextControlBox/TextControlBox.cs
+++ b/TextControlBox/TextControlBox.cs
@@ -788,6 +788,19 @@ public TextControlBoxDesign Design
         set => coreTextBox.Design = value;
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Gets or sets the color of the editor body text.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// This is the base text color. When syntax highlighting is enabled, per-token colors from the
+    /// active <see cref="SyntaxHighlighting"/> still take precedence for highlighted tokens.
+    /// </remarks>
+    public Windows.UI.Color TextColor
+    {
+        get => coreTextBox.TextColor;
+        set => coreTextBox.TextColor = value;
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether line numbers should be displayed in the textbox.
     /// </summary>