Zugg Software :: View topic - Assigning colours to Status Window lines from stringlists

Newbie Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Posts: 8

Hi there,

I use the following command to update my status window:

#STW {%expandlist( @afflictions, %char( 10))} "" Afflictions

I would ideally like to colour all the records in the stringlist variable which start with 'No' a different colour to all the other records when they're displayed in the Status Window. How would I go about doing this (assuming it's possible)?

Thanks,

Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 5:10 pm

Take a look at the %ansi function, or use the MXP COLOR tag.

#SAY {%ansi(red)this text is red}
#SAY {<COLOR red>this text is red</COLOR>}

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

You need to put the colorizing code into your data. This is great if you're doing something that doesn't require a specific line format, because CMud processes the color codes in the output instead of printing them out. However, if you DO need to use %format() then the format string will include the raw, unprocessed color code as part of the data--which can throw off the length calculations and mess up your formatting.

If you can't/won't put color data into your variable, you have to stop using %expandlist() and figure out a different way.

Newbie Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Posts: 8

Thanks all. I created 2 stringlists and status windows and like this:

#STW {%ansi(high,red)"AFFLICTIONS"%char( 10)%ansi(reset)%expandlist( @afflictions, %char( 10))%char( 10)} "" Afflictions
#STW {%ansi(high,green)"DEFENCES"%char( 10)%ansi(reset)%expandlist( @defences, %char( 10))} "" Defences

and it all works fine!