How do you guys make the text fade colors in ur sigs?

MadSkillzMan · Apr 22, 2004

Hey guys, i notice alot of you with faded sigs, and ive played with those programs that fade the instant message text, but im curious, how do you go about doing that? i have no knowledge of HTML. i do know some C++, VB, and am a QB master (but that wont help me here).

Thanx in advance everyone!!

dead_man311 · Apr 22, 2004

VB codes , there you can find how to do the colors , sizes , and links

MadSkillzMan · Apr 22, 2004

ive been here, imean fading text perfectly from one color to another

dead_man311 · Apr 22, 2004

IMOG , has the blue and yellow fading

Rezman5 · Apr 22, 2004

I know at one point there was a program floating around that did it. I dont remember the name, maybe someone can help you with that. You put in the color you want it to start from and go to and it fades it for you

tom10167 · Apr 22, 2004

A ridiculous amount of free time. I believe UBB supports hexadecimal color codes, like that in HTML. Google around for a color code chart.

MadSkillzMan · Apr 22, 2004

Oh and thats what u used? i thought there was a code you would put at the beginning and end of your text.

n17ikh · Apr 22, 2004

Nope. You code each letter a slightly different color. Like tom10167 said, too much free time

MadSkillzMan · Apr 22, 2004

would the way the AIM faders do it work? ive seen some that put the tags and code at the beginning and end of the text...

n17ikh · Apr 23, 2004

[color=000098]L[/color][color=000091]o[/color][color=000084]t[/color][color=000077]s [/color][color=000070]o[/color][color=000063]f [/color][color=000056]f[/color][color=000049]r[/color][color=000042]e[/color][color=000035]e [/color][color=000028]t[/color][color=000021]i[/color][color=000014]m[/color][color=000007]e[/color][color=000000].[/color]

JigPu · Apr 23, 2004

Now did you just use a program for that, or did you really have all that free time?

I wrote a program to fade any text with VB code between any X number of colors. I still have it somewhere on my drive, but I'd have to look if you really wanted it.

Though colored sigs take up a TON of space when downloading. Take the number of charachters, and multiply by 23 to determine just how many bytes you're making some 56Ker suffer through. 279 charachters (your sig) = 6.2 kilobytes = 1.25 seconds over 56K uncompressed. Of course, since the connection is compressed it'll likely only add 0.2 seconds to their download time, but it's still a lot of data just for coloring.

JigPu

MadSkillzMan · Apr 23, 2004

Ahh i see.. well it wasnt totally intended for sigs, moreso having people be all "howd u do that?" in IMs since AIM listens to VBscript. Thanx guys.

tom10167 · Apr 23, 2004

Whoa, AIM can use VBScript? Right in the IM? Are you on an older version?

-Jigpu, I think if you found that program you would be the coolest member evar!!!1

L337 M33P · Apr 23, 2004

I used to have a fading sig and I'd change it on a regular basis. I eventually ditched it because it was about 11K of HTML

There was an applet that Christoph made - it was a simple Visual Basic script that generated a ramp from two colours and a text string and put the resulting text with vB tags in another box.

MadSkillzMan · Apr 23, 2004

Ive run VB scripts and they disappear. they dont always work but sometimes they do. Like the CDROM open command or the spin floppy.....but the other person i beleive has the older version of AIM .....html works in aim right?

JDXNC · Apr 23, 2004

Here u go:

shard · Apr 23, 2004

thanks amigo!!

Malpine Walis · Apr 23, 2004

It really is not that hard to do in notepad. Open up a notepad window and copy and paste this text into the window:

{COLOR=RRGGBB}*{/COLOR}
{COLOR=RRGGBB}*{/COLOR}
{COLOR=RRGGBB}*{/COLOR}
{COLOR=RRGGBB}*{/COLOR}
{COLOR=RRGGBB}*{/COLOR}
{COLOR=RRGGBB}*{/COLOR}
{COLOR=RRGGBB}*{/COLOR}
{COLOR=RRGGBB}*{/COLOR}
{COLOR=RRGGBB}*{/COLOR}

Make one line for each character in your message (and use the other bracket style for the obvious reason). Use the windows calculator in hex mode for the addition and subtraction and replace the *'s with each character in your message. Don't forget the whitespace between words. When you are done, start at the bottom and work your way up deleting the line breaks as you go.

Also, I find that if you want to do a three color shift like I have in my sig, it looks better if you shift to the intermediate color first and then shift to the final color (red to orange first then orange to yellow).

n17ikh · Apr 24, 2004

JDXNC, you are Da Man for today... This makes it so much easier to make the colored ascii art sig I always wanted...

I.M.O.G. · Jul 16, 2004

I coded mine from the thread where we had a little contest for doing this... I just downloaded the program and entered my text... Until the upgrade nuked my old sig format beyond repair. Grrr. That old sig had around 5,000 characters in it, including all the code... NO-ONE has that much free time.

Somehow I can't find that old thread where everyone posted their logic and their solutions... It is out there. I know someone else can find it.

EDIT: BTW, it displays all messed up in firefox, and that was actually the largest reason I quit using the complex color code - firefox doesn't display it right, and the spacing was messed up with IE.

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