On this page we will try to cover the topics of
using colors in mIRC, and show the special characters, that can
be used.
This page will not show how to make a 50 line color text file,
but will only cover the use of colors on simple lines. These
lines
could be used in popups, but coloring huge text files and making
popups is done the same way, so what we show
here, will also make you able to experiment on, and make larger
files to play.
If you want to make colorfull popups, I would suggest that you
first read the page about doing popups.
In mIRC you can use 16 colors they are numbered from 0 (zero) to
15, all 16 colors can be used as foreground and background
colors. the 16 colors are :
0 white, 1
black, 2 blue, 3 green, 4 lightred,
5 brown, 6 purple,
7 orange, 8 yellow
9 lightgreen, 10 cyan, 11 lightcyan,
12 lightblue, 13 pink, 14 grey,
15 lightgrey
The color 7 that should be orange, can on some computers look
like a brownish shade, mostly it is because the computer is
running 256 colors, this only means that if you use orange then
what you see can be different from what others might see.
The difference :
Here is a view over the different colors foreground and
background :
When you want to use colors you can set the colors in 2 ways, you
can set the foreground color keeping the current background
color, or you can set both the foreground and the background
color.
The "key" for both methods are the color code, to set a
color code you press CTRL then press down "k" and
release the 2
keys, this will make a black square, this is the color code and
all color work, is done using this. This color code will from now
on be called ctrl-k on this page.
Now lets use the ctrl-k code and change some colors, the 2
formats are :
Change foreground, keep background : ctrl-k#
Change foreground, and background : ctrl-k#,#
Where # is a number from the color table. You can change the
colors everywhere on a line.
Lets look at some examples :
If I want red text on white background, I would type ctrl-k4,0
and the text I want to say :
The | in the image is the cursor, notice the black square in
front of 4,0, that is how ctrl-k looks in mIRC, allso notice that
the
complete color code do not take room on the line when displayed
in the channel.
If I want to change the foreground color to blue in the middle of
the line, I just add the right color code
If I want the last word with yellow (8) foreground and black (1)
background, I just add the ctrl-k8,1 infront of the word.
The way to use the colors in popups, are just like using them on
the type line, here is an example of a simple popup using colors.
Remember the black square is the ctrl.
When using this popup in the channel it will look like :
Characters
When you are using colors either to do popups, or text files, you
might think that pure text gets a little boring. Besides the
normal
letters there are special characters in the fonts, and you can
use them for small drawings or to add effects. Though you have to
remember that not all the special characters are in all the
fonts, and if people don't have the font you use, it wont look
right on their
computer. Most people are using the fonts fixedsys or courier, on
this page I have made a view over the special characters in
fixedsys.
You cannot find the key for most of these keys on your keyboard,
so you will have to type them by their character number. You
do this by pressing down the Alt key, and type the number while
holding Alt down, when you have typed all the digits (including
the 0's) in the character number you release the Alt key, and the
character should appear.
Here are the list of special characters in fixed sys and their
character number :
```````` = Alt-096
{{{{{{{{ = Alt-0123
|||||||| = Alt-0124
}}}}}}}} = Alt-0125
~~~~~~~~ = Alt-0126
'''''''' = Alt-0145
'''''''' = Alt-0146
¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ = Alt-0161
¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢ = Alt-0162
££££££££ = Alt-0163
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ = Alt-0164
¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ = Alt-0165
¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ = Alt-0166
§§§§§§§§ = Alt-0167
"""""""" = Alt-0168
©©©©©©©© = Alt-0169
ªªªªªªªª = Alt-0170
«««««««« = Alt-0171
¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ = Alt-0172
= Alt-0173
®®®®®®®® = Alt-0174
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ = Alt-0175
°°°°°°°° = Alt-0176
±±±±±±±± = Alt-0177
²²²²²²²² = Alt-0178
³³³³³³³³ = Alt-0179
´´´´´´´´ = Alt-0180
µµµµµµµµ = Alt-0181
¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ = Alt-0182
········ = Alt-0183
¸¸¸¸¸¸¸¸ = Alt-0184
¹¹¹¹¹¹¹¹ = Alt-0185
ºººººººº = Alt-0186
»»»»»»»» = Alt-0187
¼¼¼¼¼¼¼¼ = Alt-0188
½½½½½½½½ = Alt-0189
¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾ = Alt-0190
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ = Alt-0191
ÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀ = Alt-0192
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ = Alt-0193
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ = Alt-0194
ÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃ = Alt-0195
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ = Alt-0196
ÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅ = Alt-0197
ÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆ = Alt-0198
ÇÇÇÇÇÇÇÇ = Alt-0199
ÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÈ = Alt-0200
ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ = Alt-0201
ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ = Alt-0202
ËËËËËËËË = Alt-0203
ÌÌÌÌÌÌÌÌ = Alt-0204
ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ = Alt-0205
ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎ = Alt-0206
ÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏ = Alt-0207
ÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐ = Alt-0208
ÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑ = Alt-0209
ÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÒ = Alt-0210
ÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓ = Alt-0211
ÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔ = Alt-0212
ÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕ = Alt-0213
ÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖ = Alt-0214
×××××××× = Alt-0215
ØØØØØØØØ = Alt-0216
ÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙ = Alt-0217
ÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚ = Alt-0218
ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ = Alt-0219
ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ = Alt-0220
ÝÝÝÝÝÝÝÝ = Alt-0221
ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ = Alt-0222
ßßßßßßßß = Alt-0223
àààààààà = Alt-0224
áááááááá = Alt-0225
ââââââââ = Alt-0226
ãããããããã = Alt-0227
ääääääää = Alt-0228
åååååååå = Alt-0229
ææææææææ = Alt-0230
çççççççç = Alt-0231
èèèèèèèè = Alt-0232
éééééééé = Alt-0233
êêêêêêêê = Alt-0234
ëëëëëëëë = Alt-0235
ìììììììì = Alt-0236
íííííííí = Alt-0237
îîîîîîîî = Alt-0238
ïïïïïïïï = Alt-0239
ðððððððð = Alt-0240
ññññññññ = Alt-0241
òòòòòòòò = Alt-0242
óóóóóóóó = Alt-0243
ôôôôôôôô = Alt-0244
õõõõõõõõ = Alt-0245
öööööööö = Alt-0246
÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ = Alt-0247
øøøøøøøø = Alt-0248
ùùùùùùùù = Alt-0249
úúúúúúúú = Alt-0250
ûûûûûûûû = Alt-0251
üüüüüüüü = Alt-0252
ýýýýýýýý = Alt-0253
þþþþþþþþ = Alt-0254
ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ = Alt-0255
Using these you are able to add somthing extra to your popups,
here are a couple of simple examples, where we have used colors
and special characters together :
In the channel those would look like :
We do hope this short lesson will help you create and enjoy the
possibillities in mIRC.
This help file was made by Dane and updated by rifleman