color codes

[Ego]

Can anyone provide documentation or details about the various formatting
codes available for changing color, etc? Something that looks like |CFFFFFFFF.

I'd like to know what options are available and when/where they can be used.

I've looked for resources on it, but everything I've learned is from
looking at source code.

Thanks for the help.

[Gello]

Only bits I know which you've likely found out:

|cAARRGGBB

AA is alpha 00-FF, RR,GG,BB are red, green, blue

But there are limitations to when it can be used. For instance you can't /say, /emote, etc color codes. And in macros they don't reliably work with a DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage, but buried in a mod the same command seems to work fine. Never found out why.

Doesn't help much but hopefully someone who knows the format better can explain.

[Devla]

Ta-Da!

http://noz.day-break.net/webcolor/

"|cffff6060blahtext|r"

You need the |c at the beginning and |r at the end

|ccolorblahtext|r

[Ego]

Originally Posted by Gello Only bits I know which you've likely found out:.

I did figure out color already. I've also seen references to something like |h
for hyperlinks (used when sending a linked object through chat so other
people can see it's stats). But I have no use for that one. Mostly
wondering if there are other options available. For instance,
I didn't know |r ended the color until recently. Although I don't
actually use it in my current code.

Anyone know if bold or italic text is possible or other formatting options?

And how can you send a message that has the literal "|c" in it? Does
"||c" work or will all occurances of "|c" be treated as a color markup?

[Beladona]

might already know this, but color codes work in your toc files. You can color code the title of your mod so that it is colored in the addons window. Useful if you have a suite of addons such as CT mode, where you can color the CT a different color to identify it as the suite id...