Different font colours for different chat channels.

Hi,

How's everybody doing?

I've been trying to do something for more than few days now and it's driving me batty. :)

All I'm trying to do is show that a chat message is a general, team or private chat by having the text appear as a different colour for each.

I have produced some results with the below code, but it doesn't seem to affect much. I know I must have the text control that's attached to the GuiMessageVectorCtrl wrong?

EDIT: I believe it's something like: myTextControl -> MessageVector -> GuiMessageVectorCtrl (?)

// code **********************************************

if(%this.isGeneralMsg) {
MessageHud_Text.profile = "GeneralTextProfile"; // switch profile based on channel (not proper way?)
%text = "GLOBAL:";
}
else if(%this.isTeamMsg) {
MessageHud_Text.profile = "TeamTextProfile"; // switch profile based on channel (not proper way?)
%text = "TEAM:";
}
else if(%this.isPrivateMsg) {
MessageHud_Text.profile = "PrivateTextProfile"; // switch profile based on channel (not proper way?)
%text = "WHISPER:";
}

// end code **********************************************

etc... This works, but only on one of the fields.

Then I saw this profile:

// code **********************************************

new GuiControlProfile ("ChatHudMessageProfile")
{
fontType = "Arial";
fontSize = 16;
fontColor = "250 20 20";// "44 172 181"; // default color (death msgs, scoring, inventory)
fontColors[1] = "150 150 150"; // client join/drop, tournament mode
fontColors[2] = "50 50 225"; // gameplay, admin/voting, pack/deployable
fontColors[3] = "50 225 50"; // 77 253 95 team chat, spam protection message, client tasks
fontColors[4] = "225 50 50"; // global chat 40 231 240
fontColors[5] = "200 200 50 200"; // used in single player game
// WARNING! Colors 6-9 are reserved for name coloring
autoSizeWidth = true;
autoSizeHeight = true;
};

// end code **********************************************

So it looks like TGE already has different text colours built in for different chat situations. My question is this: How do I access the colour info in the fontColors[n] array? TGE seems to know if it was a TEAM chat or GENERAL chat but I can't find out where it's doing the check.

Sorry to be a bother for something that should be a simple matter. I very much appreciate any advice.

One last thing I'm confused about is the difference between the custom profiles with quotes and without:

// code **********************************************

new GuiControlProfile("WithQuotesGuiProfile"){}

// and

new GuiControlProfile(NoQuotesGuiProfile){}

// end code **********************************************


Would anybody know what the difference is?

Much thanks.

Chris.