The /color command allows you to change the color setting from the color dialog (can be access using the Alt+K shortcut keys). The /color command can also be used to change the color of the Nth (<N>) color the 16 color palette to a new value (<RGB>)

Synopsis

/color <name> <N>
/color <N> <RGB>
/color -lrs [N/scheme name]	

Switches

• -l - Reloads the color settings from the mirc.ini file
• -s - Changes the active scheme
• -r - Resets the Nth color in the 16 color palette to its default RGB value

Parameters

• <n> - Nth color in the 16 (0 - 15) color palette
• <RGB> - New RGB values to be used
• <scheme name> - The name of the scheme to be used
• <name> - Item's name:

Background Items: Background, ListBox, TreeBar, EditBox, InActive Text Items: Action, CTCP, Highlight, Info, Info2, Invite, Join, Kick, Mode, Normal, Notice, Notify, Other, Own, Part, Quit, Topic, Wallops, Whois

Example

;Change the active color scheme to mIRC Classic
/color -s "mIRC Classic"
;Change the color of 1 in the color palette to purple (128, 0, 128).
//color 1 $rgb(128,0,128)
;Restore the original color
/color -r 1
;Change the color of the background to 1 (1 by default of black)
/color Background 1

Compatibility

Added: mIRC v5.9

Added On: 26/04/2001

See also

• List of commands
• List of identifiers
• $color
• $rgb
• $cnick
• $abook
• /cnick

mIRC commands list

A /abook, /action, /add, /ajinvite, /alias, /aline, /ame, /amsg, /anick, /aop, /auser, /auto, /autojoin, /avoice, /away B /background, /ban, /bcopy, /beep, /bindip, /bread, /break, /breplace, /bset, /btrunc, /bunset, /bwrite C /channel, /clear, /clearall, /clearial, /cline, /clipboard, /close, /closechats, /closedccs, /closefserves, /closemsg, /cnick, /color, /colour, /comclose, /comlist, /commands, /comopen, /comreg, /continue, /copy, /creq, /ctcp, /ctcpreply, /ctcps	D /dcc, /dccserver, /dde, /ddeserver, /debug, /dec, /describe, /dialog, /did, /didtok, /disable, /disconnect, /dlevel, /dline, /dll, Template:mIRC/donotdisturb, /dns, /dqwindow, /drawcopy, /drawdot, /drawfill, /drawline, /drawpic, /drawrect, /drawreplace, /drawrot, /drawsave, /drawscroll, /drawsize /drawtext E /ebeeps, /echo, /editbox, /else, /elseif, /emailaddr, /enable, /events, /exit F /fclose, /filter, /findtext, /finger, /firewall, /flash, /flist, /flood, /flush, /flushini, /fnord, /font, /fopen, /fseek, /fsend, /fserve, /fullname, /fupdate, /fwrite	G /ghide, /gload, /gmove, /gopts, /goto, /gplay, /gpoint, /gqreq, /groups, /gshow, /gsize, /gstop, /gtalk, /gunload, /guser H /hadd, /halt, /haltdef, /hdec, /hdel, /help, /hfree, /hinc, /hload, /hmake, /hotlink, /hop, /hsave I /ial, /ialclear, /ialmark, /identd, /if, /ignore, /iline, /inc, /iuser J /join L /leave, /linesep, /links, /list, /load, /loadbuf, /localinfo, /log, /logview M /maxdepth, /mdi, /me, /menubar, /mkdir, /mnick, /mode, /msg N /noop, /notice, /notify
O /onotice, /omsg P /pareline, /part, /partall, /pdcc, /perform, /play, /playctrl, /pop, /protect, /proxy, /pvoice Q /qme, /qmsg, /query, /queryrn, /quit, /quote R /raw, /registration, /reload, /remini, /remote, /remove, /rename, /renwin, /reseterror, /resetidle, /return, /returnex, /rlevel, /rline, /rmdir, /run, /ruser	S /save, /savebuf, /saveini, /say, /scid, /scon, /server, /set, /setlayer, /showmirc, /signal, /sline, /sockaccept, /sockclose, /socklist, /socklisten, /sockmark, /sockopen, /sockpause, /sockread, /sockrename, /sockudp, /sockwrite, /sound, /speak, /splay, /sreq, /strip, /switchbar T /timer, /timestamp, /tip, /tips, /titlebar, /tnick, /tokenize, /toolbar, /topic /tray, /treebar	U /ulist, /unload, /unset, /unsetall, /updatenl, /url, /username, /uwho V /var, /vcadd, /vcmd, /vcrem, /vol W /wallchops, /wavplay, /while, /window, /winhelp, /write, /writeini X /xyzzy