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Beginner Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 29

I'm not so familiar with how colors are displayed but I'm experiencing the following issue:

The normal text color for the mud I'm playing is white, but for some reason the white is often replaced by bright white. Messages on the screen that are a result of me sending a command to the mud are displayed in bright white, while messages that are a result of anything else happening are displayed correctly. This made me believe that it was the local echoing of the command was causing the problems. So I disabled the echoing of the command, but the problem still persisted. Here's a short log to illustrate the problem. As soon as another color is displayed the problem fixes itself.

I mark the wrongly bright white colored text in BOLD. The commands are marked in italic.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Without knowing more details it looks like this could be related to the bug mentioned in http://forums.zuggsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30174

Double check your various color settings and check it again with the next version.

Beginner Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 29

recorded the issue with #debugfile

screenshot
test.txt

Edit: better illustration of the issue

Edit2: I redid the #debugfile to include a normal correctly displayed line to illustrate the difference.

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

You -might- want to capture more than this in your files, simply because it doesn't show any ANSI codes before the "qw" is sent.

Beginner Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 29

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:01 pm

How is "Romeo" getting colored? I don't see any ANSI color codes in the dump file that you posted. Are you sure you don't have some triggers running that are trying to color the text?

If you have triggers running that change or color the text, then we need to see those triggers so that we can try to reproduce the problem.

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:11 pm

The text is coloured... dunno if that was changed in an edit, but it is:

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:17 pm

Oops, I must have scrolled the text too fast and missed it. I think this is fixed by the bug that was causing the color to change when wrapping lines. So it might be something to try again when 2.22 is released.

edited: Actually, it seems to be doing exactly what it should. The starting text on the line (the white text) is using your Default Session color. Check your Styles preferences and tell us what your Session Text is set to. Then, the Romeo text is colored with the ANSI "<ESC>[1;33mRomeo<ESC>[0;37m" codes. That last code is the code for gray text.

So this is just one of those MUDs that is forcing gray/silver text by using the ESC[37m code instead of resetting to the default color using the ESC[0m code. There is nothing CMUD can do about this.

Beginner Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 29

Bleh, found the problem. For some reason the default session color was bright white instead of silver. I never touched those settings. Excuse my noobness.

Thanks for the help though.