Zugg Software :: View topic - Invisible text (randomly chaning text colors)

Newbie Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 7

Preface: I'm brand new to zmud, but a long time tintin user. I've tinkered with all the font and color preferences. I've searched the forum with nothing helpful found.

Problem: On a black background with standard settings I'm getting text that appears to have invisible letters (I can highlight the word or line and see that the letters are there, so they are being substituted with black on my black background). If I change Foreground Mapping to "Reverse Bright/Dim" the letters appear, but they are now a light gray. there is no apparent reason for the random substitutions that I can see. I'm getting this on both of the muds that I play.

Any thoughts?

Wanderer Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 65

You could change the default colors, so black text is dark gray text.

preferences > color > foreground mapping
click the black box which opens the "Color" window
click the dark gray box (6th row, 4th column)
click ok button in the "Color" window
click ok again to save

I needed to do the above on the mud I play. (some players were changing their custom colors to black which I couldn't read)

Or you could check if colors are emulating correctly.

disable triggers
preferences > general > emulation
uncheck emulate control codes
click ok

Color info-

#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;30;40m")black
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;34;40m")blue
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;32;40m")green
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;36;40m")cyan
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;31;40m")red
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;35;40m")purple
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;33;40m")brown
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;37;40m")gray
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;50;40m")dark gray
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;54;40m")bold blue
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;52;40m")bold green
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;56;40m")bold cyan
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;51;40m")bold red
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;55;40m")bold purple
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;53;40m")bold brown
#echo %concat(%char(27),"[0;57;40m")white

note: %ansi(white) is the same as %concat(%char(27),"[0;57;40m")