filepro colors

[Kenneth Brody]

On 11/28/2014 6:51 PM, Mike Fedkiw via Filepro-list wrote:
> Here's something I've never quite been able to figure out. Whenever I try
> showing certain colors in a show command it seems just about impossible to
> make some of the combination I want.
>
> Here's an example (\b2\f7 * \b0\f6). Now that sets the background to the
> green that I am looking for but the white foreground is set to dim and
> whenever I try using the \I for intensity it changes the background to the
> wrong color. I've even tried playing with the \c with the \I for the
> characters only and it was just a damn mess.
>
> This miserable thing can't be that hard but I've never actually come across
> any examples to reference so I frrl like I'm trying to open a combination
> lock blindfolded here.
>
> I'm on filepro 5.0.09 if it matters

Rather than using "\b" and "\f" to set the background and foreground 
separately, you can use "\a" to set them at the same time:

     "\a2f * \a06"

Note, too, that by setting the foreground to "f" rather than "7", you are 
setting "bright white/white" (depending on the video card and/or terminal 
emulator) rather than "white/gray".

You could also use "\b2\ff" of you want to set background/foreground separately.

-- 
Kenneth Brody