send colored in-game text
 

ever wanted to spruce up your pull messages? or other macros that need attention, well now you can. when i started playing around with item links that was what i wanted to accomplish and i finally figured it out, in the logs there were some lines that used a format like \#ffff00You have gained xxx status points! so i figured since we can recreate item links just like they are sent to the log text coloring might work too, but to no avail, it just didn't work. then after playing around i figured it out.

the basic form "\#RRGGBBText to be colored here", the trick is in how you input the text. as soon as you complete the \#RRGGBB section it disappears and colors the text immediately afterward, so the trick is not to complete that section until all the text you want colored is in after it. the method i used is to replace the proper slash with the improper /,
so i'd type "/#FF0000message to be colored" and bring the cursor to the / and delete it and replace it with the \, the code will then disappear and the text will be colored red in the text box.

included is an explanation image(not a pretty one) to better illustrate the process

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Cool, thanx for the info :)

Here's how to send links in game (copy and paste or type on your own)

You the second area of the text to whatever you desire such as:

You can probably use the forward slash thing, and replace with a backslash for easier typeing but if you type it how it is in game you would type this:

and as soon as you type a colon ( : ) the text will dissapper and you then type the link text, followed by \/a.

You just gotta becareful not to hit backspace, or you'll have to start all over :rolleyes:

thats pretty cool, thanks for sharing.

Can someone list the color codes or a url as to where I might find them?

Search google on hex colors. Its the same colors used in html.

I'm happy to say I learn something new every day :)

Got it covered acctually:
http://advancedmod.com/forums/colour2.php

and if you want to hurt your eyes:
http://advancedmod.com/forums/colour.php

Hum is there a way to color only partial word and at the beginning of the macro line? All I could do is color the entire line, or the end.

To do multiple colors, type it all out of course. Then when you insert the "\" character, start that the END and work forward. Turn blah into \#ff0000bl\#777777ah.

Ex start: INC [ %t ]
Ex w/codes: #00ffffI#00aaffN#0000ffC #ff0000[ #000000%t #ff0000]
** (at this point you start inserting \ at the end of the line)
Ex final: INC [ %t ]

From whence did you pulleth the number for the item? Is it from the EQ2P item database?

whoops, had left to right in the image instead of right to left like i meant. with multiple colors you have to start at the last one.

as for only coloring the beginning i don't know if it's possible, i haven't figured out if there is a way to end the colors, maybe like \/# or something like with item links, or a way to simply specify to use the default color.

Ugh, multi-color letters of one word are really annoying just to let you know, lol. You are correct tho, work from right to left.

item number
 

I'm also curious how you get the item # for the link lol..

uhh.... log anyone?

or cut and paste it into notepad or wordpad...

I wish it was the item database, but if the item number he shows above is for cold trade links, then the item database numbers don't match.

Uh sorry? jeez

this is the site i use usually for web design. its easy to compare colors together. Just click a color you want on the wheel and it will show the colors code on the right.
http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/big.html

wow some people take stuff a little too seriously. Obviously you don't know me very well, lol.

Well, as a healer I barely use any macro message, but it is always nice to toy with "unfeatured" feature and see how far you can push it...wonder now if special character work :D

Sorry tough to tell on a MB heh.

Ill go eat a bag of die now. :D

hahah. :p

Ok we need a UI mod that will allow you to type your text out then you have radio buttons to select how you want to display it (multi-color, red, blue,ect).

Make it happ'in #2!

i'm no ui expert but i'd say this would be tough, if possible - and that might be a good thing.
the colors are useful, especially in macros, but i fear the day regular ooc spam comes in rainbows.

anyone else remember the swg vendors after that became commonplace, before they removed the 'feature'

gah

Also works great in E-mails!

Now that is a good idea... You can send colorful birthday or christmas Norratian Express mail! :cool:

Seems to be after LU8 the color text no longer work, all my previous hotbutton show the color but no display in chat, same if I do it manually.

Has anyone checked on Test Server if the colored text works?

Hopefully they put it back. As a Paladin it sure was nice to be able to draw attention to my pulling macro.

They nerfed this intentionally, as I understand it. I doubt it will come back.

I saw someone use colored text in game today. It seems it still work but the player didn't want to tell me how ;)

I am able to change the color in the macro window (like this /g \#FF0000HELLO) but it doesn't work when I use the macro :(

Any idea ?

PS : I logged what he said :

(1116524143)[Thu May 19 19:35:43 2005] \aPC -1 XXX:XXX\/a dit hors personnage,"\#ff00eeWizard \#eeeeee32 \#ee0000LFG \#00eeee:)"

The change probably hasn't hit the non-English servers yet.

When I try to do the same in the macros, the colors appear in the macro window but it doesn't write in the chat (same symptoms as english servers, like post #27).

I have the answer, it only works on craft and ooc channels. Not in group or guild channels.

Were is the log file for the item numbers?

Anyone get this to work again?

there's a problem since Dof?
 

(i'm french so excuse my mistakes ^^
i wish you will understand)

there's a problem with this function, since the add-on "DoF" ?

i've tried this fun command,
but my texts are white...

i've tried
"\#ff0000kikoo"
"/#ff0000kikoo"

the colour disappear when i finish to wrote it,
but the colour is not applicated.

some news about this ?

The news on it is SOE took that out of the game. It was taken out some time back for the US/english servers. I guess with the release of DoF they got to your server.