Map text colour

Weasel · (This post was last modified: 11-11-2009, 02:44 PM by Weasel.)

How do you change the text colour when creating custom maps? I have seen yellow, is there other colours besides yellow and white?

Also, is there a way to change the direction of the text, say put it on an angle?

low_bidder · 11-11-2009, 04:16 PM,

Have you tried using a CHR$ control code before the text?

http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/is...R_SETS.php

I don't have a list handy, but control codes work with most text applications. IIRC, they are hard coded into your BIOS/CMOS. Most programs use them instead of creating a whole new set of tables from scratch. Reinventing the wheel isn't something programmers enjoy as a rule of thumb. Control codes can be turned off, but it just adds another thing that can go wrong so it isn't good system design most of the time.
I'm about 4 tuns behind so I don't have time to experiment, otherwise I would. Plus I have several maps about half or so done and December 1 is creeping up on me.

Imp · 11-11-2009, 09:55 PM,

Not sure here but think only white (normal) & yellow for diffrent pallette as in snow so stands out.

Weasel · 11-12-2009, 05:01 AM,

Imp Wrote:Not sure here but think only white (normal) & yellow for diffrent pallette as in snow so stands out.

Ok, I have seen the white and yellow, maybe that is what it is, makes sense now white text on white snow=invisible...DUH.

low_bidder · 11-12-2009, 06:25 AM,

Forget the control codes. I tried it last night and it didn't work.

Weasel · 11-12-2009, 06:28 AM,

I just checked it out and it said for commodore 64. The article was from 82!

low_bidder · 11-12-2009, 05:09 PM,

CHR$ codes are part of the International standards. IIRC, the Brits started them pre-WW2 as teletype controls. Telling the printer when to move the paper up and the print head back to the left. I think. I might have them confused with something else. Any way most modern markup languages (GUI's like Windows and HTML) had their beginnings in teletype controls.
They in turn go back to the typewriter, which was invented in the late 19th century. The problem of getting a machine to put a particular mark in a precise place on a sheet of paper was worked out and standardized long ago.
When computer came along right before WW2 ( excluding Babbage and his calculating machine as well as the use of punch cards to 'program' looms) no one wanted to spend the time reinventing the wheel so the teletype codes were expanded to fit more modern ( to them ) applications. Then when a TV was hooked up to a computer the computer had to have some way to make things appear on the TV and make them appear in the correct place, so the control codes were expanded again. One assumes in another few decades, screens will not be 'screens' but reserved places in space where images in 3-D that react to the observer reside. That will require yet another expansion of the Control codes.
That is why I was surprised when the control code didn't work. It might and I could have left off the symbol that told the program that I was entering a control code. I'll try it again with the $ in front AND back. Standard is Where-What and Microsucks uses the old Tandy convention of What-Where.

zeiss · 11-12-2009, 11:59 PM,

Yes, yellow text color is only used for winter terrain.

Weasel Wrote:Also, is there a way to change the direction of the text, say put it on an angle?

No.

Imp · 11-13-2009, 01:15 AM,

Intresting stuff Low bidder makes perfect sense.
About what you would expect from Microsucks they seem to do most things arse about face

low_bidder · 11-13-2009, 02:49 PM,

I only have Windoze on my Computer because I havn't figured out WINE well enough to get MBT to work in Ubuntu. All I do in XP is MBT and Civ. I won't miss Civ, since IV is even worse then III, so the next upgrade of Windoze will finish me off. I'll either figure out WINE or stop playing MBT.
Worse comes to worse and I'll pay somebody to do the WINE file for me. I have another computer sitting in the corner with just Ubuntu on it, waiting.