One of the most frequently asked questions in #mIRC is how to make coloured text.mIRC introduced its 16 colours in version 4.7. The colours are:
| 0 |
white |
8 |
yellow |
| 1 |
black |
9 |
lightgreen |
| 2 |
blue |
10 |
cyan |
| 3 |
green |
11 |
lightcyan |
| 4 |
lightred |
12 |
lightblue |
| 5 |
brown |
13 |
pink |
| 6 |
purple |
14 |
grey |
| 7 |
orange |
15 |
lightgrey |
To make a coloured text you press
Ctrl+K and then a number between 0 and 15,
after that you type your text. You can also make text with a background colour,
to do this press Ctrl+K and then a number,number.
For all those who can't remember the colour numbers mIRC has a 'colour index'
that can be enabled, it makes a little box popup when you press Ctrl+K.
To enable the colour index, go to mIRC options (
Alt+O) and under the General options,
check the box that says "Control-K pops up colour index" (or press
Alt+u)
mIRC has 5 types of control codes in text:
Ctrl+B for bold text
Ctrl+U for underlined text
Ctrl+R for reverse text
Ctrl+K for coloured text
Ctrl+O for plain text
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You can mix bold and underlined in all your colour combination. The reverse text uses
the windows background colour as the colour of the text and the normal text colour as
background of the text.
Ctrl+O ends the coloured, bold, underlined or reversed
text and makes it normal again. you can also add another control code of the same kind
to stop that kind of code.
mIRC also allows you to change the default colours on background, and the different
types of texts as you want it in a very easy way. Chose Colours under Tools in your
tool bar, press Alt+K or Click on the crayons icon in the menubar. That will open your
mIRC colour setup window, here you can change all kind of text and background colours
in mIRC. To chose what text or background to change colour of, simply click on it or
use the drop down menu and then click on the colour to change to. After you have made
all your desired changes click OK and you're done.
New in mIRC v5.5 is that you can have mIRC interpret ANSI colour codes and convert
them to mIRC colour codes. This option can be turned on in mIRC options (Alt+O)
under IRC/messages, check the "Process ANSI code in incoming messages" box.
Another question that often is asked is "How do I make colour popups?". Making a popup
is not very hard, but you need to know a few things first. In the channel/nicklist popup, the
channel name is symbolised with the # sign, and in the nickname popup, the highlighted nickname is
symbolised with the $1.
To make a channel popup open your remote popup editor (
Alt+P) and in the menu chose View
and select channel. Now we need to decide what the popup should do, let's say we would like
something like * your_nick Runs around in #channelname and hugs all the girls!.
we add this line in the editor:
runs around:me runs around in # and hugs all the girls!
The "runs around" is the name of the popup and will be shown in your channel popup.
the rest would make the same as a /me runs around in #channelname and hugs all the girls!.
But since we want our popup to work in all channels we replace the #channelname with a #
and the popup will always show the right channel name in the channel.
To make a nickname list popup that say something like..
* your_nick Runs over to the other side of #channelname and gives girl/boy a big hug!
we add something like this in your remote popup editor under Nickname list (view nickname list).
give hug:me Runs over to the other side of # and gives $1 a big hug!
# symbolise the channelname and $1 the nick you select in the nickname list.
So now we know how to make a popup, now we need to know how to colourize it,
to put colour in popups is as easy put colour in your ordinary text.
And you do it the same way, but you have to think about one thing, you need
space between the control code and the $1 and the #.
