SetChatCategoryColor Problem

[Faustus]

So I'm developing my first Addon that changes all of the chat colors found under Settings -> Social

I saw in the API theres a command called SetChatCategoryColor (integer category, number red, number green, number blue) that enables you to do this.

The problem I'm having is that the RGB values seem to not work. For every category, it either sets it as black or white in the Social settings. However, when I actually chat, it semi-works.

Example:

SetChatCategoryColor(2, 255, 64, 64); - Should change the yell chat color to slightly different shade of red

When I look at the social settings, the color appears as white. However, if I test the yell command it shows up as white while typing, but after entering, it appears red with the code c03fc0 infront of my text:


Is the API bugged, or is my Addon just setup wrong? My .lua file is just a series of SetChatCategoryColor calls. Also, I have my .txt file with the addon information.

Edit: According to GetChatCategoryColor() the RGB value is properly saved.

Thanks for any help

[merlight]

Functions that take separate r, g, b arguments (as oposed to hex string) work with floating-point values between 0.0 and 1.0. For example (1.0, 0.6, 0.1) is orange, (0.8, 0.8, 1.0) is soft blue (or something like it, I made the numbers up now ) Simply divide your values / 255.

[Faustus]

Originally Posted by merlight Functions that take separate r, g, b arguments (as oposed to hex string) work with floating-point values between 0.0 and 1.0. For example (1.0, 0.6, 0.1) is orange, (0.8, 0.8, 1.0) is soft blue (or something like it, I made the numbers up now ) Simply divide your values / 255.

That was it, thanks. Figured it out when I tried printing the default values and was getting decimals and was "wut?"

[Faustus]

Ok.. I think I found a legitimate API bug

Category 1 and 5 are both assigned to /say. As a result, there doesn't seem to be a way to to change the "NPC" color.

[zgrssd]

Originally Posted by Faustus Ok.. I think I found a legitimate API bug Category 1 and 5 are both assigned to /say. As a result, there doesn't seem to be a way to to change the "NPC" color.

As I pointed out on the original Forum, I tested it and it does not appear true on the EU server/client. And I jsut checked it on the NA server and there too UCT was fully capable to synch chat colors for the NPC chat and SAY alike.

You are a bit too fast to asume mistakes on Zenimax side. First check if you aren't making themistake yourself. It is best to show us your code so we can take a look at it.

[Faustus]

Originally Posted by zgrssd As I pointed out on the original Forum, I tested it and it does not appear true on the EU server/client. And I jsut checked it on the NA server and there too UCT was fully capable to synch chat colors for the NPC chat and SAY alike. You are a bit too fast to asume mistakes on Zenimax side. First check if you aren't making themistake yourself. It is best to show us your code so we can take a look at it.

Thanks for that GetNumChatCategories(), I didn't know that was a command.

With it, I figured out "NPC" is category 41 for some reason, so this fixes my original issue.

I'm not even sure what category 5 is. I think it doesn't exist, so it defaults to 1

Ex:

SetChatCategoryColor(1,0,0,0) - say is black
SetChatCategoryColor(5, .05, .05 , .05) - category 5 doesn't exist? So it defaults to chat?

You're right it's not a bug with the API, but it's not very user friendly designed. The categories are in order of the GUI up to a certain point, then deviate, then one hugely deviates.