filepro colors

[Bob Rasmussen]

In most environments, the intensity toggle refers to the bakground color. 
For foreground (text) color, there are 16 distinct colors. Maybe what 
you're looking for is "bright white".

On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Mike Fedkiw via Filepro-list wrote:

> I took a look at that page but didn't really learn anything.
>
> All I want to be able to do is have the green background with the brite white text. I know it can be displayed because I use it defining screens all the time.
>
> I think that intensity toggle just confuses me. How do I intensify the 
> text without intensifying the background, that's what I need to do.
>
> On Nov 28, 2014, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Mike Fedkiw via Filepro-list"
>> <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> There are some combinations of colors that the ANSI termina driver
>> cannot
>> generate.  I don't have them to hand, but I thought the relevant SCO
>> manpage
>> listed them.
>>
>> Lessee...
>>
>> Some of the restrictions are enumerated -- or at least alluded to --
>> here:
>>
>>  http://perldoc.perl.org/Term/ANSIColor.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
>
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