filepro colors

[Mike Fedkiw]

When I look at the help file, there's only 8 colors listed. 0-7. 0 black, 1 blue, 2 green,etc and 7 white. When I do a \b4 and \f7 the foreground white is a dim white not brite. 

Mike 

On Nov 29, 2014, Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio.com> wrote:
>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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