Scripting and changing typeface styles

KiltOtter · Post by **KiltOtter** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 6:21 pm

Question for the scripters here...

I'd like to know how to add the likes of a colour change to a letter or series of letters in a string, so that when the string is sent to the user as a message the colours are also there.

eg. if {RED} is for red colour on/off and so on, and the text Hello! is sent to the script, then the script should return {RED}Hello!{RED}.

Thanks in advance.

Kilty

noleli · Post by **noleli** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:58 pm

You have to use HTML. It needs some coercing, as HTML in IMs is, shall we say, special. I think it needs to be all caps, and include the <HTML> and </HTML> tags. So IIRC (and this is untested...):

<HTML><FONT COLOR="FF0000">String</FONT></HTML>

Maybe you're not even supposed to have the quotes. I don't remember. I suggest going into official AIM, setting an away message with color in it, and using AppleScript to return the raw source of the message. That should show you how it's done, if I've got it wrong.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:42 pm

noleli wrote:You have to use HTML. It needs some coercing, as HTML in IMs is, shall we say, special. I think it needs to be all caps, and include the <HTML> and </HTML> tags. So IIRC (and this is untested...):

<HTML><FONT COLOR="FF0000">String</FONT></HTML>

Maybe you're not even supposed to have the quotes. I don't remember. I suggest going into official AIM, setting an away message with color in it, and using AppleScript to return the raw source of the message. That should show you how it's done, if I've got it wrong.

Well in my Raw HTML script ( http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/EnteringHTML ) I just have it return what is typed in… and it displays it.

So when I use

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/html{<HTML><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">String</FONT></HTML>}

I get
String
back.

KiltOtter · Post by **KiltOtter** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:15 am

Thanks, have been trying, some minor issues, so will have to think how to get around them. The concept is sound, just gives some strange results.