How to have an invisible background for a textbox

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#1

I am trying to have a textbox in my app and have it have an transparent background.

Here is the code I have

  	historyText = native.newTextBox( display.contentCenterX, display.contentCenterY+100, 300, 100 )
  	historyText.text = "Hello World!"
  	historyText.size = 30
  	historyText.hasBackground = false
  	historyText:setTextColor( 211, 0, 0 )
  	historyText.backgroundColor =  { 121, 1, 1 }

I would assume putting hasBackground to false would remove it, but it doesn’t seem to do anything. I tried setting a color to it as well and it doesn’t seem want to do anything either.

Here is what it looks like currently.
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#2

Its in the API docs, but you’ve got to dig a ways for it:
https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/

This property is not supported in Win32 desktop apps or in the Corona Simulator for Windows.

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