text over custom textbox

when i create a textbox in the layout editor, (Type=TextBox) it works perfect but when i change the Skin from "TextBox" to "MyTextbox", the background image appears just fine but the text doesn't.



"MyTextbox" skin was created in the skin editor, it's a simple image background i want to change, nothing more, why it's hiding the text?
same if i select "TextBoxSkin". same for EditBox etc...

btw, when creating "MyTextbox", i enable the "Text" feature in the region tab.

i'm used to miyagi gui (skin means "backgroundimage" there)

any tips?

Skin in MyGUI is usually part of texture with stretching rules. When it comes to more than simple piece of texture there are more complex templates, defined in ***Templates.xml
For example in case of TextBox all you need to define in there is default font properties:
<Resource type="ResourceLayout" name="TextBox" version="3.2.0">
<Widget type="Widget" skin="TextBoxSkin" position="20 20 16 16" name="Root">
<Property key="TextAlign" value="Default"/>
<Property key="FontName" value="Default"/>
<Property key="TextColour" value="0 0 0"/>
<UserString key="LE_TargetWidgetType" value="TextBox"/>
</Widget>
</Resource>In your case template would be same, but with other 'skin' instead of TextBoxSkin.
And inside your ResourceSkin should be one or several SubSkin parts and one SimpleText part.