New Color field in v1.62 breaks \color and \textcolor

[shs-cse]

I have been using IguanaTex since 2020 and it's honestly, really awesome. In the latest v1.62 I see a new input field called "Color" in "pdflatex+Shape" mode. Upto 1.61 if you use \color{} or \textcolor{}{} it respects what I want saves the hassle of changing shape colors manually. I understand the intention behind the new color field but it breaks my intentional coloring. Currently v1.62 is forcing it's "Color" field value on the output. I would like this to be optional as it takes away my control.

MWE

Here is a minimal example for comparison:

\documentclass[margin=0pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\color{red}
\begin{document}
$E=mc^2$
$E=m\textcolor{green}{c}^2$
\end{document}

v1.61 output:

v1.62 output:

[Jonathan-LeRoux]

Thanks for reporting this. You're right, my bad for overlooking this. I can add a checkbox next to the color, so that the user can choose to enable it or not by default.
There is one subtlety, which was already an issue in 1.61: when editing an existing shape that has a color specified by the LaTeX source, that color is superseded by the current color of the shape (actually, the color of the first element if the shape is a group), unless "Reset Format" is checked. I hope that's acceptable, as I'm not sure I see a clean way to avoid that.
Currently, whether "reset format" is checked or not isn't part of what is saved when clicking "Make Default", but it could easily be made a part of it. What way, a user could choose not to automatically preserve formatting when editing a shape.

Here is a quick attempt at implementing this: IguanaTex_v1_62_1_20241229.zip

[Jonathan-LeRoux]

I realized that the color fill could also lead to problems with some displays that mix fills and contours, such as this one:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{tikz} 
\pagestyle{empty} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{tikzpicture} 

\node [circle, draw=black] (A) at (0,0) {A}; 
\node [circle, draw=black] (B) at (2,0) {B}; 

\draw[->] (A) -- (B); 
\end{tikzpicture} 
\end{document}

The letters A and B disappear if the color is set to white, which is very confusing because the contour doesn't. I also found another unrelated bug in the way the .log file is handled when an error occurs, so I'll try to push a new release soon.

[Jonathan-LeRoux]

I've just released v1.62.1, which fixes this. Thanks for reporting this issue!