Zugg Software :: View topic - Text colour not visible (white?) in zMUD settings

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Hi there,

This is a very odd one and I'm not sure whether it's a graphics driver problem or a zmud thing, but I'll ask anyway.
For reference, I'm running zMUD 7.13b on a new IBM Thinkpad T43 with a mobile ATI X300.

I have a number of buttons (gauges) with text in them, and the text isn't displaying correctly in one of the two states.
The buttons are default grey background with black text, switching to green with black text when 'on'. When the button is on then the text is visible (but shows white, so I still think there's a problem there) when it's off then the background is grey but the text appears to be transparent.

A picture is probably easier to demonstrate - there are 9 buttons across the top, all of them are almost identical aside from the text displayed and the variable that governs their state. As you can see, the 'Adrenaline' and 'Fluidic' buttons are 'on', the other 7 inbetween are off, and should contain text, but appear to be blank.

The code for the buttons seems to show the same problem - it appears empty until you highlight it, where you can see what's really written - see below.

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I'm stumped for what this could be - any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Guinn

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:10 pm

You've got them set as "Gauge" instead of a button. For Gauges you need to go to the Gauge tab and set the various colors there.

With gauges, it uses the main caption text color, and the background color given for the gauge. Since your main caption has white text, and your gauge background is set to white, you are getting white text on a white background, which won't display. Either change the text color or the gauge background color.

There is no way to have two different text colors for a button, so you need to choose a text color that works on both the background color as well as the gauge color itselt.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

The text colour isn't set to white, that's the problem.
Also, in the settings (the bottom two pictures) then the text appears invisible until you highlight it, then it shows what's really written there.

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:17 pm

Umm, according to your screen shots above, your text color *is* set to white. It looks like white text on a green background in your screenshot in the Caption field, which is what is used for the text in the gauge. Click on the color button on the right edge of the Caption field and change the text color to something other than white.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Having deleted and reimported the buttons they're set. The .mud file was a copy from another machine that was working fine, so I'm not sure how every button text switched to white, but no big deal.

Any clue on the second one? Where the black text inside the value is white (where it says 'en adrenaline @character')?

Guinn

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Bump
Any idea anyone? It's getting a bit annoying having to highlight things to see what I've typed.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Maybe problems with the Syntax Editor colors preferences under Script Parser? From some obscure post of Zugg's circa the early 6.xx series (something to do with the proper way to distribute settings--import/export versus manual cut and paste versus copying the actual .mud file and sending it off to wherever via email/IM/floppy/CD/etc), I remember him saying that lots of those kinds of preferences are distinct to the machine they were made on and could appear all goofy on other machines.