I apologise if this has been asked before but I've searched and cannot find it, so here it goes:

Is it possible to make a plugin which tells you the hex code of the colour of your contact's text, which font it is and whether or not it's bold/italic/underlined etc....

For example,

Contact: Hello!
Me: /cfont
And on that command, this would be returned:

• Arial
  Black/#000000
  Italic/Bold

Each message sent over Messenger includes the formatting information in the headers I think, so either a proxy or packet sniffer could detect the font etc, but why would you need it?  Why couldn't you just ask them?

Well, if I wanted to re-use their font/colour etc. for, let's say, a website.. I'd have to go through the whole process of explaining why I want their font.. And also, you always get those people who simply won't tell you for one reason or another.. So I thought it'd be a handy plugin to have.. That's my personal opinion though and I'm talking from experience..

An easier way would be to get a program like Colour Explorer, which can tell you the colour of any pixel on screen.

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Originally posted by raceprouk
An easier way would be to get a program like Colour Explorer, which can tell you the colour of any pixel on screen.

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Was about to post that...

You did say font/colour though.

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REQ: Contact's font

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It basically tells you what you need to know if you copy an paste it into MS Word... at least it works for me anyway.

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Originally posted by t1a0s
It basically tells you what you need to know if you copy an paste it into MS Word... at least it works for me anyway.

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Yeah, that's the method I'm using at the moment, but it's a really long-winded way of doing it.. Wondered if there was a simpler way of doing it, i.e. with a plugin...

Do you need to use people's fonts that often that you cant settle for using word? A plugin like this doesn't sound like it'd be very complicated to make, but how many people would use it?

Fair point, but I thought it'd be a nifty little tool to have and I didn't think it would be too complicated to make... In fact, I think I'd check what font more people were using if I had a tool like this, sometimes I'm curious and just don't do it because opening Word on this computer takes a lot of time, besides, what if you don't have Word?

Then use WordPad. Faster loading too.

Hmmm.. Didn't think you could do it in Wordpad, I've tried in the past and had no success, am I missing something?

Doesn't work for me in Wordpad, it has a set 16 colours, where as Word has the whole colour chart which is needed for the colour value to be displayed.

You can do it, but I think you can't do it at unsent text. You can copy with formating for what you write if you send it(copy from text box not from type box)

*Edit didn't know about the colors

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Originally posted by QtanJ
You can do it, but I think you can't do it at unsent text. You can copy with formating for what you write if you send it(copy from text box not from type box)

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Originally posted by TrickZ
REQ: Contact's font

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Originally posted by TrickZ
tells you the hex code of the colour of your contact's text

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