Hi,

To complement bg and fg in the Text widget, here's a quick patch that adds the same to RichText. Though perhaps this could / should be moved to the TextWidget base class instead.

I would have added Javascript support too but there doesn't seem to be a TextWidgetPeer.js.

diff -r 73783f732179 src/fwt/fan/RichText.fan
--- a/src/fwt/fan/RichText.fan	Wed Apr 13 11:44:09 2016 -0400
+++ b/src/fwt/fan/RichText.fan	Thu Apr 14 13:39:16 2016 +0100
@@ -142,6 +142,18 @@
     set { model.text = it }
   }
 
+  **
+  ** The current foreground color for text.
+  ** Defaults to null (system default)
+  **
+  native Color? fg
+
+  **
+  ** The current background color of text field
+  ** Defaults to null (system default)
+  **
+  native Color? bg
+
 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 // Utils
 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
diff -r 73783f732179 src/fwt/java/RichTextPeer.java
--- a/src/fwt/java/RichTextPeer.java	Wed Apr 13 11:44:09 2016 -0400
+++ b/src/fwt/java/RichTextPeer.java	Thu Apr 14 13:39:16 2016 +0100
@@ -162,6 +162,23 @@
     public void set(Widget w, int v) { ((StyledText)w).setTabs(v);  }
   };
 
+  public fan.gfx.Color fg(RichText self) { return fg.get(); }
+  public void fg(RichText self, fan.gfx.Color v) { fg.set(v); }
+  public final Prop.ColorProp fg = new Prop.ColorProp(this)
+  {
+    public void set(Widget w, org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Color v) { ((StyledText)w).setForeground(v); }
+  };
+
+  public fan.gfx.Color bg(RichText self) { return bg.get(); }
+  public void bg(RichText self, fan.gfx.Color v) { bg.set(v); }
+  public final Prop.ColorProp bg = new Prop.ColorProp(this)
+  {
+    public void set(Widget w, org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Color v) {
+      ((StyledText)w).setBackground(v);
+      ((StyledText)w).setMarginColor(v);
+    }
+  };
+
 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 // Selection
 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Bump!

I'm still keen on adding fg and bg to fwt's RichText widget, either through the above patch or other means.

RichText does need a bg for it fills the gaps between the text and the window. Here's a comparison of what a program looks like with the patch, and without.

I think we can all agree that that with looks better than without!

Steve - open an PR and I can merge it

Cool, thanks for merging the Pull Request.