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Thread: Chat / Auction Channel Colored Text
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Areriye
Sat Aug 14, 2004 2:12 pm
#1
I've started using color codes for items, and that seems to work jsut fine, but there seems to be a different technique for changing text color in the Auction chat. Nothing gaudy; I just want a different color than everyone else.
This is what I had been doing for lime green for my packs of armor (for example):
\#00FF00\Full Ubese Armor Set
When I do that in Auction chat, it includes some garbled mess of code at the beginning. Any tips?
Barris
Sat Aug 14, 2004 2:15 pm
#2
Put one character before it. Such as a period or apostrify (sp?)
[Auction] Areriye: .\#00ff00\test
will be
[Auction] Areriye: .test
Message Edited by Barris on 08-14-2004 02:17 PM
Areriye
Sat Aug 14, 2004 7:16 pm
#3
That seems to work if I manually enter it, but if I use it in a macro, it jsut lists the \#00FF00\ without changing any colors. 
Gebus... this should be much easier.
Srednii
Sun Aug 15, 2004 5:22 pm
#6
I dunno, my chat macro goes like this
.\#00ff00 Blablablablablabla;
/pause 300;
/ui action toolbarSlot##;
and it works just fine. (note the period in front of the color code, that's there for a reason)
Areriye
Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:14 pm
#8
Barris wrote:
Did you read my post at all?
I did, but as I stated, that did not work in a macro for some reason.
So in a macro it is \#****** and not \#******\? I'll give that a shot.
Barris
Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:15 pm
#9
In macros and just normal typing you have to have it \#(6 digits)\, but put some small character, such as a period, comma or apostraphy before you type in the \#xxxxxx\
Areriye
Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:49 pm
#10
It works for text, just not in macros. It either won't work at all or you can see some garbled code beforehand.
Soup_Belly
Thu Jan 20, 2005 2:20 am
#11
I finally got this to work for me. Let me share what was happening and how I worked around it.
In the macro window I would type /auction . \#ff0000\test
but a strange thing was happening. When I would hit the \ button the first time I would not see the \ appear in the window. This is some type of strange bug. The only way I could work around this bug and get my text to appear in color on the auction channel was as follows.
keep in mind that the first time you hit the \ button you will not see it on your screen. so do the following keystrokes exactly like as I have them.
/auction .\\#ff0000\\test
now this still will not make the color text appearyou must still do the following.
after you type this out go to the \ that is beside the first t in the word test you will only see one \ because the other \ is hidden. place the cursor between the t and the \ now hit the backspace. There will still be no change except now there will be no \ between the 0 and the t. now take your cursor and position it between theother \ and the # symbol. Hit the backspace key to erase the \.
Suddenly like magic in your macro window the color coding will disappear and you will onlysee /auction .test and now test will be in the proper color for the code you used.
This was the symptoms I was having and how I got color on my auction tab advertisments.
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