Forums Feature Suggestions Please change the Color Changer

And for that to be possible, mIRC would need to support more than 16 colors first. Isn't it fun to arrive at the same conclusion within a single thread over and over again?

this deserves a bump.

also my thread regarding this topic: https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php?ub...true#Post208946

I think I know what you are getting at. When you change a color currently in use, it automatically changes everything currently using that color. So, if you want to change one item to a color not currently listed in the color pallette, you must first change the item you are trying to change the color of, to a color that is NOT in use by any other event. Then change the that color to what ever color you want to use. For example, click that "Nick Text" then left-click the pink color (not the purple), then right-click the pink and select a color of your choosing for that event.

Maybe I should try my hand at explaining why this works the way it does to this fellow.

mIRC is limited to it's 16 color pallette, as you should already know. What you may not be grasping is that each of the "events" that are listed above are POINTING at CTRL+K<NUMBER>.

If you choose "Action" and then click mIRC's standard GREEN color (CTRL+K 3 -- the fourth color on your pallette list at the bottom of the window), that will make "Action" green. However, you are not assigning the the color to "Action" you are assigning the control code, ctrl+k 3, to "Action"

There's a not-so-obvious reason that it works this way. mIRC's events are designed to re-color themselves dynamically. What do I mean by "dynamically" you might ask, the answer is simple. mIRC will recolor "event" lines in your windows to whatever control code you point the event at in the alt+k window.



This is generally something people don't seem to realize when they write their own custom themes.

What you should be suggesting, and has likely already been suggested before, is additional color codes to use (0-99 as opposed to 0-15). This will allow it to fall in line with /echo -c, and mIRCs way of dynamically recoloring events.


TL;DR:
The events in the Colors/Crayons dialog point at control codes, not colors. mIRC uses these to dynamically recolor it's events, and echo's that make use of the -c switch (/echo -c action Text). It's a feature.