How to add color and formating to text

[AalaarDB]

In conventient ready to copy and paste form.
Add colors by placing this in a text file:

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Yellow:
[b]TextHere[/b]
[yellow]TextHere[/yellow]
\033YTextHere\033X

Blue:
[blue][/blue]
\033B\033X

Red:
[red][/red]
\033R\033X

Green:
[green][/green]
\033G\033X

Cyan (light blue):
\033C\033X

Magenta (purple):
\033M\033X

Grey (gray):
\033A\033X

White (uh white):
\033W\033X

Black (MSCI only):
0TextHereX

Add formatting by placing this in a text file:

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New Line:
\n

Underline:
[u][/u]

Italics:
[i][/i]

Center: 
[center][/center] 

Title: 
[title][/title] 

Justify: 
[justify][/justify] 

Text:
[text][/text] 
[text cols='2'][/text]

Author (for messages):
[author][/author]

Button (for questions):
[select value="youGetThisAsInputToTellWhichButton"]Button label here, player sees this[/select]

[A dJ]

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Center: 
[center][/center]

Title:
[title][/title]

Justify:
[justify][/justify]

Text:
[text][/text]
[text cols='2'][/text]

[AalaarDB]

In the [text cols=] part, do you need the single quotes ' ' ? I copied and pasted straight from your code into my code... and they're gone!

[A dJ]

I guess so, note that I edited my previous post twice

[A dJ]

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Text:
[text colwidth='xxx'][/text]    (xxx=number)
[text minlines='xxx'][/text]    (xxx=number)
[text cols='xxx' colwidth='xxx' minlines='xxx'][/text]    (xxx=numbers)

Button (for questions): 
[select][/select]   (i.e. "Cancel" or "End Transmission")

Other:
%s, %d, %sd
{xxx,yyy}   (xxx=textpage, yyy=t id)
$xxx$   (xxx=value)

These I found somewhere within xx0001.pck(cat04)
[Headline], [Intro], [Quote], [Report], [Byline], [Melodrama A], [Melodrama B], [Fear], [Joy]
(ADDED)(/ADDED)
@ANSA, @ANAN, @AND
[br/], [article/]
[ranking type='fight' title='$FIGHTRANK$'/]
[VK_xxx]   (xxx=keyname i.e. EJECT or JUMPDRIVE)
[IF xxx][ENDIF xxx]   (xxx=variable)

I've seen Cycrow use
::xxx::   (xxx=value)

I have no idea what some of these do.

Oh and it seems it's possible to have messages made up of HEX values entirely.

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BC BA D6 92 15 5B 3A $TargetStation$ 1F $TargetSector$ F8 FF B3 $TimeString$ D2 D6 BA $Credits$ CC CF FF 

[select value='go']01[/select] 

Edit: Added one + changed post a bit (23-02-06)

[Cycrow]

the ::xxx:: format that i use is actaully not standard for the game, i use a script to parse these tags to fill in the correct data

the other stuff line [Headline] [Intro] $xxx$ etc, are used to format BBS articles and you have to define them urself elsewhere in the t file

[s9ilent]

Is there a way to insert the a new line whislt in the script editor (ie \n)
It adds the actual charachters \n when you type it in

[ChemODun]

Is there a way to insert the a new line whislt in the script editor (ie \n)
It adds the actual charachters \n when you type it in

It possible do only via text files, not ScE

[max274bm]

Back in X2 there was a script that allowed you to change the text colour of player owned ships and stations. I used this to quickly identify my various ship classes i.e. my fighting ships (blue) from my trading ships (yellow).
Can this info here be used for this app?
If it can how do you do it please
I'm no modder and although I know what a text file is, where would you put the above script to be able to make this work?
Thanks for any advice

[UniTrader]

the above information is useful for the Scripters, but not for the User

I know two Scrits which can make colored names, the first is mine, but is only avible with a german readme (im too lazy to translate it ) and the other one is by Klyith, look here

[max274bm]

Thanks UniTrader your a gem

[Thraxwhirl]

Is it possible to use colour in Script Editor commands?

For example, in General Object Commands, you might want to:

001 ship->change name to "The Enterprise"(or whatever)...

...but with it in yellow?

[B-O'F]

Hi Thraxwhirl,

Yes you can do this in the editor.
The easiest method of using the control strings (such as \033Y and \033X) is to have them in the t-file, and then use them as required in your script.

$yellow = = sprintf: pageid=<Var/Number> textid=<Var/Number>,<Value>,<Value>,<Value>,<Value>,<Value>

Where pageid points to your t-file and textid points to the text \033Y

Same sort of thing for any other colours, and one to point to the colour ending - \033X

Then you can have -

$name = $yellow + 'The Enterprise' + $endcolour

which is : \033YThe Enterprise\033X

If you only intend to have the one named and coloured ship, then have the complete name in the t-file -- \033YThe Enterprise\033X.

As a bit extra - if you want all your stations and ships to have coloured names and/or your company name, then copy page id="1706" from 440001.xml to your t-file. Then you can edit it in Notepad to change all the 'Your xxx ' to '\033W My company name xxx \033x' to give your company name in front of the station, all in bright white (in this example) and the game will automatically name all your ships and stations for you.... plenty of scope for colours and names...

Boron - Ol Fh'art

[Thraxwhirl]

Ah, I think I get you, B-O-F.

I'll have a play-around later(though I've other scripting stuff to sort first), and see if I can master that.

Thanks.

[Cycrow]

in a few of my scripts my set coloured names for some ships and use the entry

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\033B%s\033X

then u can set any ship name to blue, or have a few entries for different colours, etc

[Wizlawz]

Maybe i misunderstood??? can this change the color of the ships or just the names?

[eladan]

Just the names.

[Wizlawz]

ahhh ok thanx.