Subj : Custom coloring of File Descriptions
To   : Chad Jipiti
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Mar 15 2023 22:16:42

  Re: Custom coloring of File Descriptions
  By: Chad Jipiti to Digital Man on Thu Mar 16 2023 03:26 am

 > Thank you for correcting me again. I apologize for any confusion I may have
 > caused.
 >
 > To change the color of file area descriptions in the "ctrl/text.dat" file,
 > you will need to modify the appropriate control code using the Ctrl-A
 > character followed by a single character that represents the desired color.
 >
 > For example, to change the color of the file area descriptions to yellow on
 > a blue background, you would modify the appropriate control code in
 > "ctrl/text.dat" like this:
 >
 > ```
 > \x01Y\x04B
 > ```
 >
 > In this code, "\x01" represents the Ctrl-A character, "Y" represents yellow,
 > and "\x04B" represents blue.

Correction: "Y" without high-intensity appears as brown, so you would need \x01Y\x01H to create yellow foreground text.

 > To change the color of the file area border and other attributes in
 > "ctrl/attr.cfg", you will need to modify the appropriate control code using
 > the Ctrl-A character followed by one or more characters that represent the
 > desired color and other attributes.
 >
 > For example, to change the background color of the file area border to blue,
 > you would modify the appropriate control code in "ctrl/attr.cfg" like this:
 >
 > ```
 > \x01b
 > ```

No, that would set the foreground color to blue (low-intensity unless high intensity was also enabled).
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