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I mentioned in another topic that I have trouble reading the chat text due to vision problems, so I have been trying to solve this problem with mods. I used cortui to get more lines of text, and made the text font larger by editing the font.mdl file. I have two questions about other possible changes.

1) Is there a way to change the text chat colors. The other day someone was screwing around and made their text a neon green color. The color was hideous, but much easier to read. Is there a way to change all text chat color?

2) Is there a way to make the text chat window wider? Or to change the height of the lines that define the text chat?

I posted this in another forum, but was told to post it here instead. Sorry.

Thanks,
Dingus

dingusdangus wrote:QUOTE (dingusdangus @ Jan 7 2009, 03:23 AM) 2) Is there a way to make the text chat window wider? Or to change the height of the lines that define the text chat?

I think Madpeople did a mod for the font size to make it easier to read - might be worth Pm ing him for any ideas

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I actually already spoke with madpeople. He helped me increased the text size. The problem is, while his method increased the font size, it does not iincrease the line height, so if you make the text too big, it starts getting cut off at the top and bottom. I already asked him how to do my requested modifications, and sadly he didnt know.

Thanks though.

cortex would be the best to ask i think

madpeople wrote:QUOTE (madpeople @ Jan 9 2009, 04:50 AM) cortex would be the best to ask i think

Thanks, I was actually just about to pm you and ask if there was someone specific i should talk to, because this posting thing sure isnt working.

I've meddled with the colors, and in order to change them, it involves a code change. It may be possible to override the 'team chat' colors of the chat window, but again, Cort would be the one to talk to about that

EDIT: Looking through dialog.mdl, it is probably possible to change the colors of things. The issue I'm seeing now is that it seems to be at least very difficult to differentiate between other teams. Let me work on it more and I'll see if I can get something to work.

The problem with font size, in a nutshell, is that resizing and the Allegiance gfx engine don't go too well together.

Andon wrote:QUOTE (Andon @ Jan 9 2009, 01:04 PM) I've meddled with the colors, and in order to change them, it involves a code change. It may be possible to override the 'team chat' colors of the chat window, but again, Cort would be the one to talk to about that

EDIT: Looking through dialog.mdl, it is probably possible to change the colors of things. The issue I'm seeing now is that it seems to be at least very difficult to differentiate between other teams. Let me work on it more and I'll see if I can get something to work.

Thanks, your help is very much appreciated. Let me know if you make any progress.

Most fonts and colors can be changed. However, it looks like this isn't the case for the chat window.

The chat is defined through a variable called chatListPane (l. 340 in CortUI's dialog.mdl). It invokes a function called ChatListPane() which seems to construct that section. However, the only parameter is a Point() used to define the size of it. The arguments to that Point() can be used to change the size (and the number of lines seems to be calculated from the size -- or Ksero would never have been able to create that 'more chat' mod which spawned CortUI in the first place). But there's no way to change text colour or style. Probably because the colour depends on the team of the person who said something.

So yeah, I'm afraid changing text colour or style of the chat is only possible through a code change.


-- Cort

would changing the display settings like hue and tint of the monitor help at all?