joan stark "jgs" http://www.ascii-art.com .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. HOW TO COLOR PICTURES (by texxy) ) (_) |`| | | _() jgs \_|_|_/` I have mIRC. If you do not, i am not sure where your notepad is...but you will have something similar. 1) Get a picture a) Draw one on your notepad (read below). b) Most folks find them on the internet. It is best to have your mirc and browser up at the same time, go back and forth Pictures made out of standard keyboard characters are called ASCii art. You can use your browser and search for "ascii art". Use the quote marks...it narrows the search. And I bet you thought we made them...hehehe! Actually, lots of us do, but we borrow! Once you have found the pictures, use your mouse, click and drag the pic...you might have to take parts of other pics. When you have it highlighted, hit ctrl-c (cuts it), go back to your mirc status screen (says status on top left), place your pointer anywhere on the screen and click your right mouse button. A small box should appear with edit-notes as an option... left-click edit notes, go to file, and click on new. You now have a blank sheet. Now you can transfer the pic you dragged off the web onto the blank sheet...just hit ctrl-v (paste). Two good sites are: http://www.auburn.edu/~norgapd/ http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/index.html c) I added some to the bottom of this file _____________________________________________ OK WE HAVE A PIC JUST DYING FOR A LITTLE COLOR ) (_) <-----FANCY LITTLE THING! |`| | | _() jgs \_|_|_/` The 2nd thing you need is one of these -->  (luckily I brought some with me) If you cannot see this-><-your program does not know how to recognize it. You should go to notepad in your mIRC and open this text file from there. Or try some other word processor. I will wait. Ok, i assume you have messed with some coloring. If not, you just hit ctrl-k, followed by a number 0-15 (only works on mirc, does not work here. On mirc ctrl-k will give you one of these ---> , you can cut a  from mirc and paste it in your notepad txt file. You only need to cut and paste one . From that point on, you can cut and paste the same  from your text file and make as many as you need.  _________________________________________________ LETS COLOR ALREADY!!! ) ok, lets make the flame red (_) I will color the second candle. |`| First, I will add my 's to the | | _() beginning of each part of the jgs \_|_|_/` candle. ) (_) |`| <--look how pretty! | | _() jgs \_|_|_/` now to make the flame red i need to add 4's 4) 4(_) <--just like that |`| | | _() now to color the actual candle... jgs \_|_|_/` notice the bottom  will color the base of the candle. We need to add another  to it. 4) I colored the candle lt. blue #11 4(_) 11|`| Now...to color the base...i will 11| | _() need more 's cause right now... jgs \_11|_|_/` those 11's are gonna color the rt. side of the base. 4) We color the base 8 (yellow) 4(_) <-----DONE!!! 11|`| she is magnificent! 11| | 8_() oops...forgot one thing... jgs 8\_11|_|8_/` 4) 4(_) 11|`| 11| | 8_() 8\_11|_|8_/` <-almost forgot to erase the artist's initials... We would not want to give credit where credit is due!!! (j/k) ___________________________________________________ SO NOW WHAT DO I DO WITH IT??? 4) Just save it under whatever name 4(_) you want. Go to your own channel. 11|`| I often use #ttestt. I am there 11| | 8_()alone to laugh at my own mistakes. 8\_11|_|8_/` Once you are on a channel you can play your txt file with the /play command. If this was candle.txt the command would be /play candle.txt if your files get really big or tons of color switches you could do /play candle.txt 2000 (1000 is automatic speed) try 1500 for your larger files ___________________________________________________ ANYTHING ELSE??? That is pretty much it...that is how you start. Do not try to draw your own at first. You will aquire that talent as you color the many drawings you downloaded. You learn by seeing how the best do it! Eventually you will find yourself making changes to the pics and adding to them. Eventually, you might do it all! It also takes a lot of skill to combine the different pics, try it! you can add backgrounds also... 1,1  the number following the , is 4,1 )  the background, keep playing 4,1 (_)  till you get it right add 11,1 |`|  these 's at end of line for 11,1 | | 8_()  reference. You could 8,1 \_11|_|8_/`  add bold if you wanted. 1,1  I would make the flame more than one color and make the candle solid...(no need for the ugly |'s, and add words 1,1 jgs  too. and i could do lots 9,1 )  to it... 4,1 (0¥8) -§§*§ º§³º¶ª¹ .««ô»» §¢ §¢ «¨«°ø¬¬¥ «ô«ô°¡¤±æ·±Ô µ©¿º¶¤§¤ `°¤ø,¸¸,ø¤°`° ððððððððð°·.° ><(((°> ·:.°·°·.° <°)))>< ·:.°· ><\\^> }<¿} >¶¿> >{ °} }>{ °} }}{°>>><(((°O¤ >><(((°<¤ ¤³°´° °´°³¤ ""¨¨°º©o.,,.o©º°¨¨°º©©º°¨¨°º©o.,,.o©º°¨¨"" ‘’‘’¬ºäòä »å󮼨æô¡½çõ¢°¾ èö£±¿é÷êø¤²¥³ëù¦´ÐúÞ§µßû¨¶àîü©·áïýª¸Æâðþ«¹Çãñ .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. INFO FROM BJORN BRATLI Anyways...the codes for mIRC (mIRC 4.7 and newer) is: CTRL+K (Any number between 1 and 16) text = colored text CTRL+B = Bold CTRL+R = Reverzed CTRL+U = Underlined The colors is: 1 = Black, 2 = Dark Blue, 3 = Dark Green, 4 = Red, 5 = Dark Red/Brown, 6 = Purple, 7 = Myster, 8 = Yellow, 9 = Light Green, 10 = Dark Cyan, 11 = Light Cyan, 12 = Light Blue, 13 = Pink, 14 = Dark Grey, 15 = Light Grey and 16 = White You can combine this to make background colors with , (comma) like: CTRL+k+4,8:o) = Red Smiley with yellow background color This is mIRC Colors...and some other IRC Clients has the same codes.. but *NOT* all...there are even IRC Clients wich dont even support colors...like ircII, BitchX (The newest does, with a patch added, for both win and unix/linux) and so on.. Since I'm not quite sure of *all* html colors...I won't even try =) Anyways...they do start with: text * Bjorn Bratli (aka DaSmurf) * * DaSmurf@Internetaddress.com * * To reply by email, remove the "Crazy" part! * Agood page about colors http://www.lynda.com/ Subject: Re: Duh! Need info on putting ascii art into mIRC - again. From: CrazyDaSmurf@Internetaddress.com (Bjørn Bratli) Date: Tue, Jun 30, 1998 19:51 EDT Message-id: <359a6a46.9980564@news.sol.no> On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:08:50 GMT, dilbertfan@usa.-dot-net (m allen adams jr) wrote: >¤Put the ascii in a .txt file in your mIRC directory, and use /play filename.txt >¤to 'play' it into mIRC. It's "'play' to IRC" ..not mIRC ..mIRC is an IRC Client... That would be just as weird to say like: "I don't know what a newsgroup is, but I sometimes do talk to Netscape" Get the point here?=) > >Make that "/play filename.txt 0" so that you don't get the big delay. And make >sure that you don't have any blank lines in your ASCII. Yea...make sure everyone who tries will get disconnected as fast as possible, then there wouldn't be so crowded there :oÞ the command in mIRC (This is not the same command as in most other IRC Clients) is: /play <#channel/nickname> dir-location\Filename Delay The delay is counted in milliseconds, so if its a big file you should at least set it at 2000ms! Example, if you want to play a file in the channel #ASCIIArt, type: /play #ASCIIArt filename.txt 2000 If you use this command in the active window (Let's say you're in #ASCIIArt, and you use this command in that window as well) you dont have to add where to play... But if you are talking to someone else in private message/another channel, you must have it there so mIRC know where to play it :o) Let's make an 'easy to use' little script...to make everything more simple: ;o) Make a new Dir on your harddrive, for example, call it 'ascii' Now, lets say you made a dir called c:\ascii and in there it's a lot of ASCII Art... then in your aliases (On your menu line at the top of the mIRC window, Click on: "Tools | Aliases" or just press ALT+A) Now add this line at the end of your aliases.ini: asciidir { return c:\ASCII\ } ascii.div { return $play $file="Choose an ASCII file" $asciidir\*.* } Now you can make a popup menu, wich says 1: pick one, 2: random play. First, put this in (Tools | popups) popups.ini, in both "channel" and "Query/Chat": ASCII Art Then, 1: put this anywhere in (Tools | Popups) popups.ini (channel & Query): .Pick an ASCII:{ .set %asciifile $ascii.div if (%asciifile == $null) { halt } else { .play %asciifile 2000 } halt } Now...to make mIRC play randomly from the ASCII Art directory...(wich is a 'little' more advanced than this first command) do this: First, put this in aliases.ini (Tools | aliases or: ALT+A): randomascii { inc %ainc :start .set %randomascii $findfile($asciidir,*.txt,%ainc) if (%randomascii == $null) { halt } else { goto play } halt :play .play %randomascii 2000 .set %playasc %randomascii .unset %randomascii inc %ainc halt } Put this anywhere in (Tools | popups) popups.ini (Channel & query) (Under ".Pick an ASCII"): .Play Random ASCII:{ .randomascii } And now you're ready to 'Show Off' ;o) BTW: This Random command will also search under directorys... So if you for example have c:\ASCII\ and c:\ASCII\MyOwns\ and c:\ASCII\Unknowns they will also be played...but when it comes to dirs with long filename ...and spaces...those will not be played (not sure about this in mIRC 5.3 and newer tho) and another thing...that little random script i made ..it can ONLY play 1 file type...don't work on (f.x.: *.asc,*.txt,*.vt) ..so.. Well...have fun =) And if you do have questions about mIRC..or IRC in general..don't hazitate to ask me...i bet there would be 99% chance I know the answere to your question ;o) C'ya :o) * Bjorn Bratli (aka DaSmurf) * * DaSmurf@Internetaddress.com * * To reply by email, remove the "Crazy" part! * .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:.