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Beginner Joined: 29 May 2009 Posts: 11

I would like to change the default color of the gossip channel on the mud I play. The gossip channel currently shows up as a green color, which is the same color as combat text which makes it hard to catch the gossip channel when in combat.

I would like to know how to change the gossip channel color to a different color whenever someone gossips something.

Please remember I am Zmud dumb so I will need a detailed description of what to do. I have tried reading other posts and cant seem to figure it out.

Thank you.

Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 4:18 pm

It depends exactly what the line looks like. Show us some examples. I'm going to assume that it looks like this:

Steve gossips, 'whatever'

Like all problems, there any many solutions of varying complexity. The simplest by far is just to type this on the command line:

#trigger {gossip} {#color red}

Which will create a trigger that fires on the word "gossip" and colors the line red. Depending on how often the word "gossip" appears outside the gossip channel, you may get a lot of false positives, but it'll be better than nothing :)

Beginner Joined: 29 May 2009 Posts: 11

you assumed right as far as Steve gossips, 'whatever'. Now do I just copy and paste #trigger {gossip} {#color red} to the pattern and put nothing in the value?..also if I want to have it set to cyan in place of red do I just type {#color cyan}? like I said im zmud dumb apprently, and I do appreciate you help. BTW im using zmud 7.21

Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 10:01 pm

I said, type it on the command line and hit enter. If you click "triggers" on the toolbar you'll see the trigger that this creates.

There are a ton of valid colors - you can use all the html color names (google for a list).

Beginner Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 24 Location: Illinois

would be easier to know what to do if you were to give a sample of the gossip string.

Bandicoot gossips, "i found a dendrophilia fetish... whats this do?"

#trigger {^(*) gossips, "(*)"} {#sub {%ansi(cyan,hi)%1 on Gossip says, "%2"}}