sorry its me again but comparing fm 22 default fm colours.xml and and fm 24, those lines with "neutral commentary foreground/background share the same rgb values, and in fm 22 i didnt have this problem, surely there has to be some coding addition to fm 24 that does the white and black foreground text in match commentary?
my match commentary widget.xml looks like this and is slightly different then the above match commentary.xml, but dont think this is causing any issues and its hindering me from having the desired foreground text colour
<widget class="picture" file="boxes/custom/match/commentary/bar" id="cmbi" rthr="85" colour="neutral commentary background">
<layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="0" />
</widget>
<!-- commentary widget -->
<widget class="label" id="cmnt" hidden="true" font="bold">
<layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="0,0,2,0" />
<translation id="text" value="" />
<integer id="size" value="30" />
<flags id="algn" value="centre,can_scale" />
<colour id="colour" name="text" />
</widget>