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
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.
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.
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.
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.
If this box is
checked, the only fonts that appear by pressing the Font Button will be
True-Type fonts.
Pressing these buttons will reset the Display Colors screen to the color set that you choose.
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.
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.
Pressing this
button will abandon any changes made and close down the Display Colors Screen.