Re: NEWBIE

From: Michael Steinmann (claywar@moltar.cetlink.net)
Date: 10/10/96


On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Cyanide wrote:

> I just downloaded and installed the color patch from fletchers snippets.
> The color is nice and everything, I would just like to know how to make it
> restore the color afterwards.  For example, when I type look and I see a
> person it looks like this:
> 
> <YELLOW>Cyanide <ALL DIFFERENT COLORS>the colorful implementor <LAST COLOR
> USED> is standing here.
> 
> I would like to make it so it looks like this:
> 
> <YELLOW>Cyanide <ALL DIFFERENT COLORS>the colorful implementor <YELLOW> is
> standing here.
> 
> In other words, restore the colors used before the color codes, to the words
> after the color codes.
> 
> In trying to fix this, i put a \c00 after my colors, but that makes
> everything grey and not the color of what it was previously.
> 
> This concept is quite hard to explain so if you have any trouble
> understanding it, tell me and I'll try to make it a little easier

I had the same problem, but fortunatly there is a long, and tedious  
fix.  In act.informative.c, look at the list_one_char, colorize all of 
those strings to whatever you want, and whala its fixed.

[claywar].+'^`^'+.[morgaelin:static-011.cetlink.net 9000]

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