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03-29-2005, 12:50 AM
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A Forest Scavenger
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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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Last edited by sardiaxx : 03-29-2005 at 02:36 PM.
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03-29-2005, 02:02 AM
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A Griffon
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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)
Code:
\aITEM -396193662 Trade Link Boots:Trade Link Boots\/a
You the second area of the text to whatever you desire such as:
Code:
\aITEM -396193662 Trade Link Boots:My Cool New Booties\/a
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:
Code:
\aITEM -396193662 Trade Link Boots
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
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03-29-2005, 02:44 AM
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thats pretty cool, thanks for sharing.
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03-29-2005, 03:42 AM
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A Brown Bear
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Can someone list the color codes or a url as to where I might find them?
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03-29-2005, 03:44 AM
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Bacon Eater
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Demu
Can someone list the color codes or a url as to where I might find them?
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Search google on hex colors. Its the same colors used in html.
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03-29-2005, 04:48 AM
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A Griffon
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03-29-2005, 04:59 AM
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A Griffon
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03-29-2005, 11:16 AM
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A Berserk Golem
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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.
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03-29-2005, 12:26 PM
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A Griffawn
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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 ]
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03-29-2005, 01:32 PM
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A Crazed Gnoll
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From whence did you pulleth the number for the item? Is it from the EQ2P item database?
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03-29-2005, 02:32 PM
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A Forest Scavenger
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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.
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03-29-2005, 03:01 PM
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A Griffon
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Euda
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 ]
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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.
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03-29-2005, 05:23 PM
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A Griffawn
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item number
I'm also curious how you get the item # for the link lol..
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03-29-2005, 05:30 PM
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A Griffon
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Euda
I'm also curious how you get the item # for the link lol..
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uhh.... log anyone?
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03-29-2005, 07:52 PM
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A Griffon
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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.
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03-29-2005, 10:34 PM
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A Crazed Gnoll
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Drumstix42
uhh.... log anyone?
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Uh sorry? jeez
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03-29-2005, 10:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Demu
Can someone list the color codes or a url as to where I might find them?
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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
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03-30-2005, 01:06 AM
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A Griffon
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wow some people take stuff a little too seriously. Obviously you don't know me very well, lol.
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03-30-2005, 04:37 AM
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A Berserk Golem
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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
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03-30-2005, 12:47 PM
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A Crazed Gnoll
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Drumstix42
wow some people take stuff a little too seriously. Obviously you don't know me very well, lol.
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Sorry tough to tell on a MB heh.
Ill go eat a bag of die now.
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03-30-2005, 01:42 PM
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A Griffon
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hahah.
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03-30-2005, 01:57 PM
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A Fallen Diplomat
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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!
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03-30-2005, 02:24 PM
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A Forest Scavenger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Virodeath
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!
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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.
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04-01-2005, 04:19 PM
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A Grizzled Badger
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anyone else remember the swg vendors after that became commonplace, before they removed the 'feature'
gah
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04-03-2005, 03:33 PM
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A Young Mystail Rat
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Also works great in E-mails!
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