Text entity with background mask

The proposed solution is not natively supported and may not work in all scenarios and versions.

Here's an example on how to derive the Text class in order to draw a colored background mask behind the text. 

Here is the code: 

class MyText : devDept.Eyeshot.Entities.Text
{
   public Color MaskColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;

   public MyText(Plane sketchPlane, Point2D insPoint, string textString, double height, Color maskColor) : base(sketchPlane, insPoint, textString, height)
   {
       MaskColor = maskColor;
   }

   protected override void DrawText(DrawParams data)
   {
            DrawBackground(data);
            data.RenderContext.PushRasterizerState();
            data.RenderContext.SetState(rasterizerStateType.CCW_PolygonFill_NoCullFace_PolygonOffset_Minus3Minus2);
            base.DrawText(data);
            data.RenderContext.PopRasterizerState();
   }

   private void DrawBackground(DrawParams data)
   {
      if (Vertices != null && Vertices.Length > 0)
      {
           Color prevColorWireframe = data.RenderContext.CurrentWireColor;
           data.RenderContext.SetColorWireframe(MaskColor);
           data.RenderContext.PushRasterizerState();                     
           data.RenderContext.SetState(rasterizerStateType.CCW_PolygonFill_NoCullFace_NoPolygonOffset);
           data.RenderContext.DrawQuads(Vertices, new Vector3D[] { Plane.AxisZ });
           data.RenderContext.PopRasterizerState();
           data.RenderContext.SetColorWireframe(prevColorWireframe);
      }
   }

   protected override void DrawForSelection(GfxDrawForSelectionParams data)
   {
      DrawText(data);
   }

   protected override void DrawSelected(DrawParams data)
   {
       Draw(data);
   }
}

 Then use it like below.

MyText mt = new MyText(Plane.XY, new Point2D(10, 10), "this is a text with background", 10, Color.Aqua);
model1.Entities.Add(mt,Color.Orange);

Notes: The text entity derived in this way can be selected only by clicking on the text (and not on the mask).