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leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Pebrot MSN in cli. Change default colors

hi! im looking forward to know how to change the default colors in pebrot (http://pebrot.sourceforge.net/) so it shows a transparent background in urxvt instead the default black solid color

pebrot has a ~/.pebrot/pebrotrc file:

# Pebrot config file

...

#################################### COLORS ####################################
# Valid colors names are: white, blue, red, cyan, yellow, green, magenta.
col_default= white
col_info= cyan
col_info_delim= red
col_error= yellow
col_error_delim= red
col_chat_bar= blue
col_chat_bar_name= blue
col_chat_bar_name_typing= green
col_state_bar= blue
col_state_bar_written= yellow
col_state_bar_not_written= blue
col_my_name= blue
col_others_name= red
col_list_delim= white
col_list_num= red
col_list_pass= blue
col_list_state= green
col_list_name= white
col_list_parens= white
col_timestamp= white
################################################################################

so, there's no black there... so, the black background is not set there...

but here:
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pypebrot/pebrot.py

    def defineColors( self ):
        colors= ['WHITE', 'BLUE', 'RED', 'CYAN', 'YELLOW', 'GREEN', 'MAGENTA' ]
        for f in (COLORABLE + colors):
            self.COLORS[f]= ''

    def defaultColors( self ):
        self.COLORS['DEFAULT']= self.COLORS['WHITE']
        self.COLORS['INFO']= self.COLORS['CYAN']
        self.COLORS['INFO_DELIM']= self.COLORS['RED']
        self.COLORS['ERROR']= self.COLORS['YELLOW']
        self.COLORS['ERROR_DELIM']= self.COLORS['RED']
        self.COLORS['CHAT_BAR']= self.COLORS['BLUE']
        self.COLORS['CHAT_BAR_NAME']= self.COLORS['BLUE']
        self.COLORS['CHAT_BAR_NAME_TYPING']= self.COLORS['GREEN']
        self.COLORS['STATE_BAR']= self.COLORS['BLUE']
        self.COLORS['STATE_BAR_WRITTEN']= self.COLORS['YELLOW']
        self.COLORS['STATE_BAR_NOT_WRITTEN']= self.COLORS['BLUE']
        self.COLORS['MY_NAME']= self.COLORS['BLUE']
        self.COLORS['OTHERS_NAME']= self.COLORS['RED']
        self.COLORS['LIST_DELIM']= self.COLORS['WHITE']
        self.COLORS['LIST_NUM']= self.COLORS['RED']
        self.COLORS['LIST_PASS']= self.COLORS['BLUE']
        self.COLORS['LIST_STATE']= self.COLORS['GREEN']
        self.COLORS['LIST_PARENS']= self.COLORS['WHITE']
        self.COLORS['LIST_NAME']= self.COLORS['WHITE']
        self.COLORS['TIMESTAMP']= self.COLORS['WHITE']

    def initBarColors( self ):
        if curses.has_colors() and not MONOCHROME:
            self.ChatBar.attrset( self.COLORS['CHAT_BAR'] )
            self.StateBar.attrset( self.COLORS['STATE_BAR'] )
            self.Text.setAttr( self.COLORS['DEFAULT'] )

or here (same file)

    def setColors( self, background ):
        try:
            import usedefault
            usedefault.use_default_colors()
            back= -1                                <------------------ i think it's here
        except ImportError:
            back= background                  <------------------ i think it's here
        
        curses.init_pair( 1, curses.COLOR_WHITE, back )
        curses.init_pair( 2, curses.COLOR_BLUE, back )
        curses.init_pair( 3, curses.COLOR_RED, back )
        curses.init_pair( 4, curses.COLOR_CYAN, back )
        curses.init_pair( 5, curses.COLOR_YELLOW, back )
        curses.init_pair( 6, curses.COLOR_GREEN, back )
        curses.init_pair( 7, curses.COLOR_MAGENTA, back )
        curses.init_pair( 8, curses.COLOR_MAGENTA, back )

        self.COLORS['WHITE']= curses.color_pair( 1 )
        self.COLORS['BLUE']= curses.color_pair( 2 )
        self.COLORS['RED']= curses.color_pair( 3 )
        self.COLORS['CYAN']= curses.color_pair( 4 )
        self.COLORS['YELLOW']= curses.color_pair( 5 )
        self.COLORS['GREEN']= curses.color_pair( 6 )
        self.COLORS['MAGENTA']= curses.color_pair( 7 )

        #self.stdscr.touchwin()
        #self.stdscr.refresh()
        #self.stdscr.bkgdset( curses.color_pair(8) )    <------------------ i think it's here

Thankyou for read!

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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KlavKalashj

Member

Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 376

Re: Pebrot MSN in cli. Change default colors

I would also really much like to know that O.o

leo2501

Member

From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: Pebrot MSN in cli. Change default colors

now that i see is not possible, or at last can't found a way, i want to make the background grey, say #222222 as my other CLI apps...

but i cant seem to find the "setting" in the app script to do that

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery