Bind textblock background color to select menu choices

GoJS
#1

Hi,

Is there a way of changing the background color of a textblock dynamically using a select menu or by other means? I want to keep the existing text.
Something similar to this nonfunctional example, just to clarify:

$(go.TextBlock, {
text: “Test”,
stroke: “#000”,
background: “#CCC”,
textEditor: window.TextEditorSelectBox,
choices: [“yellow”, “white”]
},
new go.Binding(“background”, “choices”)
)

Brgds
Jan

#2

Yes, there are many ways to design and implement something like that. Have you seen:
https://gojs.net/latest/samples/customTextEditingTool.html
https://gojs.net/latest/samples/customContextMenu.html
https://gojs.net/latest/samples/blockEditor.html

None of those are exactly what you want, but they all exhibit different ways of doing something that could be helpful.

#3

Thank you very much Walter! The custom context menu solution is brilliant, and exactly what I was looking for. It is really useful to be able to bind data to multiple parts of a template.

Brgds
Jan