Anzio Color Scheme

[Brian K. White]

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From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
To: "Filepro_List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:07 AM
Subject: Re: Anzio Color Scheme


> Is it just me, or did Scott Walker say:
>> Anyone have an AnzioWin def file with a good color scheme for fp that
>> they would be willing to share.
>
> The colour scheme for fP itself is defined in fP, not in Anzio.  Anzio's
> definitions are generic terminal colours that fP's colours will override.

Well, mostly true.

There are fewer ansi commands for the various standout modes than there are 
standout modes. So, the client decides whether a given code means half 
bright, extra bright, underline, or blink, or, whether to render one or all 
of those in some other manner entirely like using a color, or a different 
font, or a different boldness to the font. And, all those individual factors 
combine into a rather large list of possible combinations.

On top of all that, the client also chooses excatly how to render the colors 
that aren't ambiguous, as in, what exact rgb values. The same ansi cyan 
looks very different in facetwin than it does in most others. It's 
substantially darker. In the course of making putty suitable for us, I 
sampled the actual rgb values of all the colors it produces and specified 
them as overrides to the defaults in putty, and there was a consistent 
pattern to facetwins colors offset from usual. The result is a definitely 
different looking screen even though it's the same filepro, same fp config 
file, same emulation mode etc..

Anzio can look at least a dozen different ways, some radically different 
from each other, depending on the choices made in the color config dialog, 
and the ansi codes put out by fp or any other app are powerless to change 
it.

(I hate to confuse the issue, and that's all this does, but having said 
that, I should cknowledge that in the particular case of Anzio, it has so 
many controls available by sending special Anzio commands from the server 
that I'm sure it IS actually technically possible to effect those options 
from the server, that I just said the server can't control. But that is just 
part of Anzio's particular awsomeness, I didn't want to confuse the general 
terminal discussion with that, and definitely no standard fp config file has 
any such codes, nor do I think it would be practical to try to write, so It 
is still correct to say that fp will not affect them.)

I know you know all that. I'm filling the rest of the story as Paul Harvey 
used to say for him.

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