output text color?

Posted by Paragate on Tue 08 Feb 2011 09:47 PM — 5 posts, 20,303 views.

Paragate Tue 08 Feb 2011 09:47 PM #0

In some MUD, some items have black color which exactly is same as background, so it won't be visible on output window. However if we change background to different color, it is still not visible. The same problem can be solved in zmud by adjusting font color. But there is not option in Mushclient to change font color. Do I miss someting in mushclient or it is designed in that way?
thanks

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Tue 08 Feb 2011 11:36 PM #1

Well the MUD sends down the text colour, right? Otherwise some things would not be black and some not. So there isn't much point in specifying a text colour.

However in the ANSI colour configuration you can change the background colour to be something other than black. Click on "black" (top left colour) and change the colour to be something else.

Paragate Wed 09 Feb 2011 12:10 AM #2

Thank you for the reply.
I did exactly what you described before I raised the question on this forum. But the black item (which is in ansi color [30m) are still invisible. It is annoying that I carry something on me that I can not see it unless I copy and paste it out.

Nick Gammon said:

Well the MUD sends down the text colour, right? Otherwise some things would not be black and some not. So there isn't much point in specifying a text colour.

However in the ANSI colour configuration you can change the background colour to be something other than black. Click on "black" (top left colour) and change the colour to be something else.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Wed 09 Feb 2011 01:04 AM #3

The other thing to try is to change the default colour. Try clicking on the box "Use Custom Colour 16 as default". Then change to the "Custom Colour" configuration page and make Custom Colour 16 background colour something that is not quite black (like gray, or dark blue).

I presume the MUD doesn't actually send "black on black" for your item. What it probably is doing is sending "ANSI reset", which MUSHclient normally responds to by switching the background colour to black. But if you check that box, it sets the background colour to custom colour 16 background instead.

Paragate Wed 09 Feb 2011 01:23 AM #4

Change the background color of color 16, and check "use Custom color 16 as default" in ANSI color setting helped!

Thanks a lot.

Nick Gammon said:

The other thing to try is to change the default colour. Try clicking on the box "Use Custom Colour 16 as default". Then change to the "Custom Colour" configuration page and make Custom Colour 16 background colour something that is not quite black (like gray, or dark blue).

I presume the MUD doesn't actually send "black on black" for your item. What it probably is doing is sending "ANSI reset", which MUSHclient normally responds to by switching the background colour to black. But if you check that box, it sets the background colour to custom colour 16 background instead.