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TehGreyFawkz
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Highlighting text?

Post by TehGreyFawkz »

Using windows 7 my background changes a lot through a variety of different backgrounds.

What I'm looking for is a way to coat text in another colour much like the outlining text tool (Text < Blending options < Stroke) in photoshop or even the highlight tool found in MS Word.

The problem I have is if I have black text on a black background, I can't see it, if I have a white background I can't see white text, and intermediates of grey are too hard to see.

My solution so far has been to create a back drop to the text as just a block of slightly transparent white, but the problem with this is that as the text changes letter or number, it changes size, so it looks silly as either going past the backdrop or there is a large blank spot on the backdrop which doesnt look as nice.

Advice will be greatly received!
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jsmorley
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Re: Highlighting text?

Post by jsmorley »

You could try

StringEffect=BORDER
FontEffectColor=xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx

On the string meter(s)

This will put a border around the text in the color defined in FontEffectColor
TehGreyFawkz
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Re: Highlighting text?

Post by TehGreyFawkz »

You're a genius! Thanks!

Anyway of changing the thickness?
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Re: Highlighting text?

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TehGreyFawkz wrote:You're a genius! Thanks!

Anyway of changing the thickness?
Unfortunately not today.
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Re: Highlighting text?

Post by TehGreyFawkz »

jsmorley wrote: Unfortunately not today.
Thanks a lot anyway, I'm sure this will be fine :D
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Jkon
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Re: Highlighting text?

Post by Jkon »

Thats brilliant,i didnt know we could do that.CRAP! i'm gonna be up all night changing stuff now.
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TehGreyFawkz
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Re: Highlighting text?

Post by TehGreyFawkz »

Right I've been fiddling around with it and heres what I have to show off:

[hsimg]http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/8582/myrainmetertehgreyfawkz.jpg[/hsimg]
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/8582/myrainmetertehgreyfawkz.jpg
Thanks again for the help man :]


EDIT: Heres a link:

http://tehgreyfawkz.deviantart.com/gallery/
Last edited by jsmorley on April 10th, 2010, 1:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Edited to use [hsimg][/hsimg] for large images
dragonmage
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Re: Highlighting text?

Post by dragonmage »

Are you using AntiAlias=1 on your string meters?
AMDK7
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Re: Highlighting text?

Post by AMDK7 »

I was looking for a solution for this same exact problem. I decided to make a rss reader from the rss tutorial and try to figure out how the background worked in that to fix my skin. After making the reader, it opened and this link was the only thing in the window, problem solved in a sort of "Rube Goldberg" sort of way, hahaha.
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Re: Highlighting text?

Post by TehGreyFawkz »

dragonmage wrote:Are you using AntiAlias=1 on your string meters?
Nope, honestly prefering it without at the moment