permanent colour change.

[Ellis]

Is there a way to make your writing always one colour. Because, while I love this writing being in green, its a pain to keep setting it as green. Is there a way to have it automatically like this?

 

[Keef]

I'd sure hope there is, otherwise I feel sad for those who go through all that trouble.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

There isn't, no. Which means, yes, Famine has changed his font colour at least 39,034 times

 

[Lizard]

There isn't, no. Which means, yes, Famine has changed his font colour at least 39,034 times

That must get annoying at some point having to type it out.

 

[Pupik]

That must get annoying at some point having to type it out.

That's why I don't do it.

On the app, we're all the same color, anyhow.

 

[Tornado]

Is there a way to make your writing always one colour. Because, while I love this writing being in green, its a pain to keep setting it as green. Is there a way to have it automatically like this?

CTRL-C CTRL-V is the easiest and fastest way.

 

[Lizard]

CTRL-C CTRL-V is the easiest and fastest way.

Still need to retype every time you turn computer off.

 

[Tornado]

Copy it from one of your previous posts.

 

[AOS-]

I'd sure hope there is, otherwise I feel sad for those who go through all that trouble.

You get used to it over time.

I've been manually typing it out since January '10, it becomes muscle memory.

 

[Daniel]

It's either muscle memory, or CTRL+A and click Red and Bold (my colours). I've got a shortcut set up on my iPhone because it's a bitch to type in on it

 

[Matty]

That's why I don't do it.

On the app, we're all the same color, anyhow.

Not necessarily, on the app (iPhone [Not sure on Android]) we can see the colour, but if we quote the BB Code mark up's don't come through, only the actual quote tags come up, but it's very easy to type it out anyway. Just a pain every time you need to do it.

 

[SkylineObsession]

I was using coloured text every time during my posts in my forums a few years back, then stopped doing it as it was too much work just to make the text look nice.

 

[F1 fan]

I'd sure hope there is, otherwise I feel sad for those who go through all that trouble.

What about the few guys who highlight certain letters in one colour and type the rest in another? Complete waste of time imo, but each to their own.

 

[Famine]

You get used to it over time.

I've been manually typing it out since January '10, it becomes muscle memory.

I've been typing it out manually since before I was even a member here - I used it on GTTimes before GTP, for example - and it's so second-nature that I often accidentally type it when starting text documents (amongst other things).

The opening tags and the closing tags add about a second to each post. Which means I've wasted about a day on typing just the tags across various fora.

 

[Grayfox]

Keyboard macros.

They can be useful for this as well.

 

[daan]

I've been typing it out manually since before I was even a member here - I used it on GTTimes before GTP, for example - and it's so second-nature that I often accidentally type it when starting text documents (amongst other things).

IIRC they changed to a black background so you had to go through all your posts and change them from Indigo to Cyan (or perhaps it was vice versa.) I do recall you having to change though as your posts became unreadable with the new background colour...



Goes off to petition Jordan to change the forum background colour to Indigo. Cue 39,000 post edits in Famineland...

 

[Liquid]

The opening tags and the closing tags add about a second to each post. Which means I've wasted about a day on typing just the tags across various fora.

CTRL + A, *click* *click*. Job done. Although when quoting your posts in sections, it can sometimes be frustrating to keep it looking authentic!

I like some of the colours on this forum, but I don't really see what I get out of it. My posts may asthetically look more appealing, but that doesn't really encourage me much and I doubt it influences people's opinions on what I write.

This is also a nice colour but again, I'm not that interested in colouring my posts. But as Famine said, it really doesn't take that long if you do want to.

 

[Mr. S]

One could also include something like the color change in small scripts, I'd prefer AHK for that.

#1::
Send, [.COLOR="Indigo"]XXXXXXXXXXXX[./COLOR]
Return

I can't test it right now but that should be enough to fire the code for "Indigo" upon pressing the Windows + 1 key at the same time. Remove the dots in the color tags, tho.

Edit: right, so here it is.

;GTP Color
#1::
MsgBox, 257,Changing color, Changing color - start?
IfMsgBox Cancel
return
IfMsgBox Ok
Sleep 500
Send, [.COLOR=INDIGO]XXXXXXXXXXXX[./COLOR]
Return

1) Download AutoHotKey
2) Create a text file and name it script.ahk, copy the code into the file (remove the dots inside the color tags in my example!)
3) Double-click to run the script
4) Press Win + 1 on your keyboard in order to run the script.

It'll ask you for confirmation, so that you won't fire it into any IM windows etc. You can also add bold etc. tags, it's all up to you.

If you're not having the file extension set to be visible in Windows and don't want to enable it, you can also rename it through a simple command. Press Win key + R and enter "cmd" without quotation marks. Then, enter the following commands (I'm assuming the script file has been saved to your desktop and you're using Windows Vista or 7).

cd desktop
ren script.txt script.ahk
exit

And it's all done.

 

[Keef]

This is also a nice colour but again, I'm not that interested in colouring my posts. But as Famine said, it really doesn't take that long if you do want to.

That's a nice color if you plan to blind your readers. Eek!

 

[Liquid]

That's a nice color if you plan to blind your readers. Eek!

All the better to blind you on the ground with so you don't go skywards and fly into drones.

 

[gamerdog6482]

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I'm having trouble with the above posted AHK method. I can get as far as Step 3, but I'm not sure what to do from there.


EDIT: Nevermind. Just deleted random stuff and it started working.☺