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Newbie Joined: 16 Dec 2010 Posts: 3

Hello!

I recently started using the status window and I want to assign colors.
Right now I have it like this:

Shield: @shield
Resist: @resist
Protection: @protection
See: @see
Constitution: @con
Strengthen: @stren
Infravision: @ivis

Is there a way to only color the variable?
I set the variables like this:

#VAR shield %ansi(bold,cyan)ON
etc

But it's adding the color from the variable to the next, meaning it turns @shield AND Resist: to cyan instead of only turning @shield in cyan.

Thanks for the help!

Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

close your coloring with %reset()

#VAR shield %ansi(bold,cyan)ON%reset()

usually I just set my color in the status windows code and not embed in the variable, this could lead to issues with reading the variable in a trigger...

#IF (@shield == ON) {Do this} [it potentially will see the variable as '%ansi(bold,cyan)ON%reset()' and fail to match.]

Newbie Joined: 16 Dec 2010 Posts: 3

Thanks for the reply, but I couldn't find %reset in cmud.
I tried adding #IF to the status window code but now it shows this:

Shield: #IF (OFF = ON) {} {}

How do you set color in the status window code?

Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

https://i.imgur.com/ectXFkQ.png

here's an example of how it looks for me... main mud window is on left, chat captures are upper right, and lower right is my tracked status variables.

Sorry it's not %reset() but %ansi(reset)...

lol seems my cmud.db file is corrupted or something as i can not launch cmud due to that file being 'access denied' and it's not...

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:55 pm

XML tags might be an easier way.
More color options and self-delimiting as well.

shield=<color red>on</color>

You can use all the colors in '#HELP %colorname' or just use hexadecimal color codes.

Newbie Joined: 16 Dec 2010 Posts: 3

Thanks guys! The reset works perfectly!

Wanderer Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 52

to add to what shalimar suggested, you can use xml within the window itself as well as functions to specify the colors you want from there based on something hard coded or using a variable....and definitely go for the hex color option...you can match virtually any color you want. I just type "hex color picker" into google and go from there.

i keep track of certain spells bein ON/off in my status window

here is the code within my status window...