Zugg Software :: View topic - Sending info to a new window and coloring it

Beginner Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 19

I am using

#WIN Chat %time(hh:mm:ss) You: %1
#CW $00FF00

To make a chat window. When it sends the text it is always an ugly teal color. I want to make it colored but the CW is firing on the main window, not the Chat window. Might anyone know how to make it trigger and color on the chat window?

Thanks
Rob

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:12 pm

I think if you put the #CW before the #WIN, it will work.

Charneus

Beginner Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 19

I had that as well. My full code was actually

#CW $00FF00
#WIN Chat %time(hh:mm:ss) You: %1
#CW $00FF00

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:34 pm

You could make a trigger in the Chat window to color it for you.

Charneus

Beginner Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 19

How do I go about making the trigger for that window? I did a search in the help documents and couldn't figure it out

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:59 pm

Click on the Window name itself in Settings Editor, then select New->Trigger. The rest is up to you. :)

Charneus

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

You're using window and thus in control of the exact data being sent. Just color it in the #WINDOW command:

#window name {"<color #XXXXXX>"text"</color>"}
#window name {%ansi(X)text}

Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:09 am

Hah. I had totally forgotten about that myself, Matt. Thanks for reminding me of that. :P

Charneus

Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:34 pm

You don't need the extra quotes in that. Remember that the {} characters are like quotes, but allow variable and function expansion within them. So you don't typically need to mix {} with ". In any case, the following works just fine:

#WIN Chat {%time(hh:mm:ss) You: <color #00ff00>%1</color>}

and is definitely much more efficient than trying to use #CW.

Also, a note to the original poster: Did you know that each window can have it's own automatic timestamps? Click on the Chat window, then click the Prefs button in the toolbar. Click the Session tab on the left, then the Scrollback tab along the top. Enable the "Show timestamps" checkbox. Then click OK.