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color of caption in operations window

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 12:36 am
by greatUnknown
The captions on all operations are very legible [e.g. Nuclear Missle [13] ] in a white font - except
for the Drop Pod caption which is a dark grey and very difficult to read. Can I change this?

Re: color of caption in operations window

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 5:51 pm
by mrowka
greatUnknown wrote:The captions on all operations are very legible [e.g. Nuclear Missle [13] ] in a white font - except
for the Drop Pod caption which is a dark grey and very difficult to read. Can I change this?
Not sure about the custom colors but you can change to the one of the tier colors ( white"0"/blue"1"/yellow"2") in operations *.xml
As for drop pods they are grey becouse you dont have any

And if its not what you want to change you can try with /core/languages/..../operations.xml there you would need to change the "value=" i.e:

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<entry name="Scan" value="Satellite Scan"/>
You can check for examples in factions.xml and technology.xml

Re: color of caption in operations window

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:37 am
by greatUnknown
mrowka wrote:As for drop pods they are grey becouse you dont have any
Tested that; it's not the reason. See the attached [trimmed] screenshot.
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Note that there are 2 drop pods available - if you can see it. Nevertheless, the line is grayed out.

Re: color of caption in operations window

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 7:49 am
by Zak0r
They are grey because you can't use them as the other operations by clicking on them. Drop pods are used as specific order for units. If you give a unit the order to drop from space while having available pods one drop pod will be automatically used.

Re: color of caption in operations window

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 1:02 pm
by greatUnknown
Thank you. That makes sense. OTOH, even if they are different color, they should be more visible.

Re: color of caption in operations window

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 12:43 am
by mrowka
Did few tests but i didint find any good way to do it, exepct of making operation in operation to link operation :D
But you cant change it in normal means or unless we get some access to *.exe or xml structure ( my opinion atleast) .