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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 27 Nov 2001.
Re: ASCII Color code CLEAR, TRANSPARENT

Re: ASCII Color code CLEAR, TRANSPARENT

From "Peter \"lastfuture\" Marquardt" <lastfuture@lastfuture.de> · alt.ascii-art · 27 Nov 2001 21:28 · View full thread · report
On 27 Nov 2001 10:57:20 -0800, kev...@mail.ru (Beetle/Kevertje)
wrote:

>"David Waine" <dav...@fujitsu-siemens.com> wrote in message news:<9u0014$700$1...@dackel.pdb.sbs.de>...
>> "Robert Buscher" <rob...@earthlink.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:9SAM7.7608$WC1...@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
>> > What is the Color code for Transparent?
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> Perhaps this is an IRC question? Simply setting the font colour to match the background colour will give a transparent effect.
>> 
>> from the mIRC help:
>> "Use the ctrl-K key combination to insert special control characters in your text. Add a number from 0 to 15 to use one of the 16
>> available colors."
>
>True, but there's no way of knowing what background color someone has
>set, so it's impossible to make something transparent for all users...

but you can set the background of the text as well by simply
seperating 2 values by a comma like this:


#10,2
  ^ ^
  | |
  | `- background
  `--- foreground

-- 
\\\||///   ,-----------------.
| -- --|  ( ....z.zz.zzZzZZzZ )                       INSOMNIA part 7
|(__)_)|   `-----------------'                   soon to be revealed
|   _) | _____,'                                      alt.ascii-art

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From: "Peter \"lastfuture\" Marquardt" <las...@lastfuture.de>
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Subject: Re: ASCII Color code CLEAR, TRANSPARENT
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