Display Colors

 

The program’s default display is that of the standard ANSI color scheme.  This means a black background with different colors of text placed upon it.  While this is more than adequate for most purposes, this program allows you to change any or all of the display colors to your liking.

 

ANSI color is a range of 16 shades, listed below (white is not shown)

 

BLACK                         GRAY

MAROON                     RED

GREEN                         LIME

NAVY                            BLUE

PURPLE                       FUCHSIA

OLIVE                           YELLOW

TEAL                            AQUA

SILVER

 

These are the base colors in which text is sent to you from the server.  While the game sends them as their named colors, you aren’t forced to view them that way.  For example, if you have a black background, the color maroon doesn’t appear very clearly.  You can change the maroon to appear in a different color.  Like maybe you wanted it to show in a lighter shade of red, or even a different color altogether, it’s up to you.  Also, the colors you change them to are limited only by the colors available on your display/video card.

 

Note: The range of text coloring depends upon your video card and video driver.  Some less expensive cards have older drivers associated with them and may restrict the setting of some text colors.

 

Display Colors Screen Elements

 

 

Display Color Button

Pressing this button brings up the standard windows color grid.  From here, you can choose any color you wish for the background to appear.  Changing this value will also affect the background colors of the Scrollback and the Command Line.  To show you how the resulting change in background color affects the current text color settings, the backgrounds of all the colored text change too.  Remember that no changes to the color display are actually saved until you press the Save and Close button.

 

Default Text Label

Clicking on this label, or the button next to it, brings up the standard color grid.  You can then choose the desired color of the default text.

 

Font Button

Allows you to select the font for the main display.  The font chosen will be reflected in the labels on this screen.

 

Note: While you can choose the font size in the font dialog box, it will not be saved.  To change the font size of the display font, use the menu item Options Reduce Font, Increase Font or Choose Font.

 

Fixed-Width Only Checkbox

If this box is checked, the only fonts that appear by pressing the Font Button will be those of fixed-width pitch.  Fixed-width means that all symbols (a, b, c, etc.) will be of the same width.  Most lists and tables displayed on the game are best viewed using a fixed-width font.

 

True-Type Only Checkbox

If this box is checked, the only fonts that appear by pressing the Font Button will be True-Type fonts.

 

Default Color Sets

Pressing these buttons will reset the Display Colors screen to the color set that you choose.

 

Black Default         Black screen with standard colors
Black Bright           Black screen with bright colors
Black Dim              Black screen with dim colors
White Default         White screen with standard colors
White Bright          White screen with bright colors
White Dim              White screen with dim colors

 

Colored Text Labels

Below the Display Color Button you can see there are 16 “sentences” of text.  Each one reads: “Color <some color> as THIS COLOR.”  Each row corresponds to one of the base ANSI colors.  The left-hand colored labels list these colors, while the right-hand one lists your current configuration.  When you first enter this screen (or press the Default Button) both columns of colored labels will be identical.  To change any display color simply click on the appropriate “THIS COLOR” label (or the button next to it) in the right column.  This will bring up the standard color grid.  Here you can choose any color you wish for that text to appear in.  For example, the maroon on black looks kinda dim, so click on the THIS COLOR label next to the MAROON label.  Then choose another color, like a brighter shade, or maybe even hot pink.  You can change the color to anything you like.  Let’s say you chose hot pink.  This means that when the game ever is sent a “maroon” text, it will display it as hot pink.  It will color all maroon colors as hot pink until you change it to another color.

 

Note: Again, the range of text coloring depends upon your video card and video driver.  Some less expensive cards have older drivers associated with them and may restrict the setting of some text colors for some fonts.

 

Save and Close Button

Pressing this button will save any changes you made to the display configuration and change the Main Screen’s colors accordingly.  It will also close down the Display Colors Screen.

 

Cancel Button

Pressing this button will abandon any changes made and close down the Display Colors Screen.