From 42435875167de59d530a3df2c153eb34baf601ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Chmelar <mexx@devsub.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:09:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] add `rex_textColor` to UILabel

---
 Source/UIKit/UILabel.swift     |  4 ++++
 Tests/UIKit/UILabelTests.swift | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Source/UIKit/UILabel.swift b/Source/UIKit/UILabel.swift
index d353f5e..719c22a 100644
--- a/Source/UIKit/UILabel.swift
+++ b/Source/UIKit/UILabel.swift
@@ -14,4 +14,8 @@ extension UILabel {
     public var rex_text: MutableProperty<String> {
         return rex_stringProperty("text")
     }
+    
+    public var rex_textColor: MutableProperty<UIColor> {
+        return rex_valueProperty(&textColor, { [weak self] in (self?.textColor)! }, { [weak self] in self?.textColor = $0 })
+    }
 }
diff --git a/Tests/UIKit/UILabelTests.swift b/Tests/UIKit/UILabelTests.swift
index e365e28..24c64c4 100644
--- a/Tests/UIKit/UILabelTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/UIKit/UILabelTests.swift
@@ -42,4 +42,20 @@ class UILabelTests: XCTestCase {
         observer.sendNext(secondChange)
         XCTAssertEqual(label.text, secondChange)
     }
+    
+    func testTextColorProperty() {
+        let firstChange = UIColor.redColor()
+        let secondChange = UIColor.blackColor()
+        
+        let label = UILabel(frame: CGRectZero)
+
+        let (pipeSignal, observer) = Signal<UIColor, NoError>.pipe()
+        label.textColor = UIColor.blackColor()
+        label.rex_textColor <~ SignalProducer(signal: pipeSignal)
+        
+        observer.sendNext(firstChange)
+        XCTAssertEqual(label.textColor, firstChange)
+        observer.sendNext(secondChange)
+        XCTAssertEqual(label.textColor, secondChange)
+    }
 }

From a071507afbd4814b5e54ca826094e2a0db9d4d98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Chmelar <mexx@devsub.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 13:44:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Use the default color of a new UILabel as fallback
 instead of force unwrapping

---
 Source/UIKit/UILabel.swift | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Source/UIKit/UILabel.swift b/Source/UIKit/UILabel.swift
index 719c22a..c999eec 100644
--- a/Source/UIKit/UILabel.swift
+++ b/Source/UIKit/UILabel.swift
@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ extension UILabel {
     }
     
     public var rex_textColor: MutableProperty<UIColor> {
-        return rex_valueProperty(&textColor, { [weak self] in (self?.textColor)! }, { [weak self] in self?.textColor = $0 })
+        return rex_valueProperty(&textColor, { [weak self] in self?.textColor ?? UILabel().textColor }, { [weak self] in self?.textColor = $0 })
     }
 }