Forums Scripts & Popups colored text in a dialog

I have searched, but am not able to find any info.

Is there a way to color output text in a dialog window?
(have tried the standard CTRL - K, no luck)

Trying to do the following:

I have a dialog that displays the current song name. Upon pause, I want to append - PAUSED to the end of the name.

I have no problem appending the extra text, just wish to make it colored.

Any help/suggestions/input is greatly appreciated.

Also thanks to everyone who has helped me the past few days, its refreshing to find a place where one can actually get an answer that helps!

you can download info from the page www.sarrio.org

Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I dont speak/read Spanish.

Even using a translator, was still not able to find any information about my question.

Get MDX and see the SetColor section in mdx.hlp.

An example:

• dialog mdx {
  size -1 -1 60 25
  text "PAUSED" 1, 8 5 50 15
  }
  
  alias -l mdx return dll\mdx\mdx.dll
  
  On *:dialog:mdx:init:0:{
  dll $mdx SetMircVersion $version
  dll $mdx MarkDialog $dname
  dll $mdx SetColor 1 text $rgb(255,0,0)
  }

Tip: To bring Windows' color selection dialog where you can find RGB values, press Alt+K in mIRC and right-click anywhere in the colors palette.

i think he means he wants to be able to colour only a certain (like this) part of the text.
you can use the undocumented mdx richedit feature:

make sure you change the paths above.
and to add text:

this will allow all control codes to work as usual.
did -r, -o, -i, and -d don't work though, so it's not too good

edit: it only works for edit boxes, and you have to add a $crlf to the end of the line to go to the next line.

I will check out MDX.

In the meantime, here is exactly what I am looking to do, in case someone may have some other input.



You will notice in the "now playing" box, the song title, followed by " - PAUSED".

You will also notice that the " - PAUSED" text is black.

It is my desire to make the " - PAUSED" text be red(or any color for that matter) IE: " - PAUSED "

in that case, i have no idea how to it, unless you change the text box to an edit box sorry