background() doesn't work as expected when called from setup(). about p5 HOT 7 OPEN

Thanks for reporting this! I can reproduce this on my machine.. so I'll take a look : )

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@abhikpal I found the source of this problem. This line is resetting the background color.

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commenting this out keeps the background color but I dont know the use of this line, Its probably important

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The function background() does not, in fact, set a background color or image. It instead draws the background or image once and resets all the parameters, as the push_style context manager is used.
This is (apparently) required for images, and has been maintained for colors, probably for consistency in working.

This is probably not the intended behavior from the code, though, as is clear from the docstring and the renderer.background_color = background_color.normalized line.

Sending a fix.

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commenting this out keeps the background color but I dont know the use of this line, Its probably important

I comment that line and the background is fix but everything else draw in setup slill being erased when I draw something in the draw loop

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still an issue in v0.7.1

What's the status on this?
(A PR was merged a while back but the the issue is still open?)

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Still hasn't been sorted out, but I found a workaround for anyone searching for this problem.

Instead of setting your background in setup, do it once in draw (I just use an if statement). I don't know if this will mess with images, but it works if you just want to change your background at least.

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