Announce text in colors

[renini]

Is it possible to announce text in colors? Especially just a few words? What i'm trying to accomplish is announce nagios warning/critical/ok's to our supportstaff channel, but i want those words, in orange,red,green.

Already tried \x03 and ^C03 styles, but so far without any luck.

[Ueland]

Hi!

I had to check but yes, it does work :)

I tested with the color codes used here (after some googling): http://tools.suckless.org/ii/bots

sendMessage($this->socket, $channel, $from.": \0034 Pong"); sendMessage($this->socket, $channel, $from.": \0038 Pong");

And these give me different colors for each row.

[renini]

Yeh i tought that that would work, but for me it doesn't work with the fileReaderOutput.db plugin for example. I think they get escaped? Or am i doing something wrong.

echo "\0034 Pong" > fileReaderOutput.db

[Ueland]

Hmm, i tested it now and got the same error.

I`l have to check it up a bit more tomorrow and see if i can figure out what the issue is.

[renini]

Did you find a method to fix this?

[Ueland]

Not yet, i did not get to check it yesterday. I am looking into it now, and if i dont see a quick solution, i will consider adding support for colors via some custom tags, like {red} or similiar , will that work for you?

[renini]

Oke cool np, yeh that works for me if it makes it possible to make selective words colorized. Or did you ment the complete sentence?

[Ueland]

it will colorize everything until a {normal} -tag appears, so you can easily colorize specific words.

[renini]

Sounds good

[Ueland]

Great, implementing it now :) Will update here when i have tested & pushed changes.

[Ueland]

Support for colors and bold/underline is now in place!

You can now do something like this: echo "Nagios: Service foo is {red}{bold}DOWN{reset} - CHECK IT UP" > db/fileReaderOutput.db

This will cause the DOWN-string to be bold and in red color.

[renini]

Just tested it, works! fnx :)

[Ueland]

Excellent :)