send colored in-game text

sardiaxx · #1 03-29-2005, 12:50 AM

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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**Drumstix42** · #2 03-29-2005, 02:02 AM

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

taco-man · #3 03-29-2005, 02:44 AM

thats pretty cool, thanks for sharing.

Demu · #4 03-29-2005, 03:42 AM

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

***Dolby*** · #5 03-29-2005, 03:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Demu

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.

Humudce · #6 03-29-2005, 04:48 AM

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

**Drumstix42** · #7 03-29-2005, 04:59 AM

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

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

adorya · #8 03-29-2005, 11:16 AM

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.

taco-man · #9 03-29-2005, 10:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Demu

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

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

**Drumstix42** · #10 03-30-2005, 01:06 AM

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

adorya · #11 03-30-2005, 04:37 AM

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

Kale27 · #12 03-30-2005, 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drumstix42

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

Sorry tough to tell on a MB heh.

Ill go eat a bag of die now.

**Drumstix42** · #13 03-30-2005, 01:42 PM

hahah.

Arederxes · #14 04-03-2005, 03:33 PM

Also works great in E-mails!

Dadditude · #15 04-04-2005, 01:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arederxes

Also works great in E-mails!

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

adorya · #16 05-16-2005, 01:55 PM

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.

Vampiro · #17 05-16-2005, 03:39 PM

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.

Magus · #18 05-16-2005, 04:15 PM

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

sailgon · #19 07-03-2005, 05:44 PM

Were is the log file for the item numbers?

jlpicard · #20 09-14-2005, 10:25 AM

Anyone get this to work again?

Arlyss · #21 09-16-2005, 03:25 AM

(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 ?

**Landiin** · #22 09-16-2005, 07:39 AM

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.