filepro colors
Bill Randall
wrandall at fptech.com
Sat Nov 29 13:01:40 PST 2014
It is listed in the manual and in the latest 5.7 help file.
On 11/29/2014 3:59 PM, Mike Fedkiw wrote:
> I was actually just going to post exactly that. I just started trying
> letters starting with a and noticed first, that it wasn't a syntax
> error and that it changed the text only.
>
> Maybe there's a page missing from the help file or something cause
> anything referring to using a letter to change character colors is
> certainly not in any help file I've even seen.
>
> I remember when I last tried messing with the text colors and it was
> about ten years ago. At that time I think I remember just giving up
> but it's nice to finally know exactly how they work.
>
> Now I kinda wonder if I can actually get into the help file and modify
> it or edit it to show the letters associated with the colors, just for
> future reference.
>
> The help is greatly appreciated
> Mike
>
> On Nov 29, 2014, Bill Randall <wrandall at fptech.com> wrote:
>
> Try \FF
>
> On 11/29/2014 3:20 PM, Mike Fedkiw wrote:
>
> 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 Fedk iw 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
>
> whenev er 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
> manp age
> 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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