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Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

Want perfect color co-ordination in your settings?

Function: To display three colors together randomly allowing you to cycle through or keep colors that match your preference.
Purpose: Because three, perhaps unusual, still nicely co-ordinated colors are preferable to happenstance matching
Why This: A person can not imagine all the combinations that are available. This script uses chance to suggest combinations, and
proximity to pair colors.
Who Cares: Me, and perhaps people standing in a paint store. Use this script to do room colors if you like.
Required: Some understanding of what looks good versus what looks better with regard to color. Or at least a care for such a thing.

command: SeeColor
parameters: None; #1, #2, or #3; any color name

What this does is randomly generate three color examples from a list of 140.

You can select or deselect by number or name.

You can add any name from the string list, that is past colors may look good with present conditions. eg.
SeeColor Firebrick sets firebrick to be matched or matches firebrick to the set.

When you have set 2 colors you change from random generation to fixed items #1 to #140.

When you choose the 3rd color you reset.

I put a bit of code under an empty #if (@I_Do_DB) statement. That creates a database, change
that to 1 or something if you would like to save your results. You could use an input I suppose
for the titles and description. Notepad works as well though, just I don't expect people need much
of a DB of this sorts

1. Make a folder named Colors or change the class statement

2. Paste the folowing part in the "Colors" folder as an alias named "SeeColor":

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

oh crud, I forgot to implement the extra reset statement, don't use that, or at least I doubt it would work

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

also I think the fox traditionally jumps over the dog or something, but I like this as well

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

I will try to stop commenting

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:57 pm

I added some code tags to preserve those spaces. In future, use them any time you want to keep spacing. Also, if you have something to add to a thread and you're the previous poster (unless it's been a long time since your previous post), just edit the old post.

Finally, I'd like to add that I still have no idea what the point of this script is. Some more information on what it's for would be lovely.

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

I don't know what a 'code tag' is, but they sound lovely, (not being sarcastic, I like the word) and I will return to my first post to provide more info (as you suggest).

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:34 pm

Thanks for that - now I know what it's for, I actually really like the idea, sounds very useful. Thanks for posting it.

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

Wow, I am very happy then. In my experiance the wrong colors in triggers are a nightmare, while amusing ones make even the mundane job of harvesting plants (I am a druid) enjoyable

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:23 pm

Yeah, I spent ages on sites like ColorSchemer trying to come up with nifty colour schemes. At times I wonder if just spamming out lots of possible schemes and seeing what I liked best wouldn't have been a better way :P