Color Internals

All of the colors!

Nitrocid KS uses Terminaux to manipulate with the colors and configure them for the kernel to use. The kernel employs several of the color types for the kernel components, your addons, or your mods to use when writing text using the Nitrocid's console writer.

The ConsoleBase namespace contains a namespace dedicated to color management called Colors that contains a plenty of useful tools for kernel color manipulation. Currently, it contains the following classes:

• KernelColorConversionTools

• KernelColorTools

It also contains the following enumerations for different tools:

• KernelColorSetErrorReasons

• KernelColorType

Scroll down in this page to get started with the list of amazing color tools. For the general color tools, you may consult the Terminaux manual:

Terminaux - Manual

Color types

Nitrocid KS provides you with the following color types to help you make an inspiring theme with nice colors for each type:

Type	Description
Input	Input text
License	License color
ContKernelError	Continuable kernel panic text (usually sync'd with Warning)
UncontKernelError	Uncontinuable kernel panic text (usually sync'd with Error)
HostNameShell	Host name color
UserNameShell	User name color
Background	Background color
NeutralText	Neutral text (for general purposes)
ListEntry	List entry text
ListValue	List value text
Stage	Stage text
Error	Error text
Warning	Warning text
Option	Option text
Banner	Banner text
NotificationTitle	Notification title text
NotificationDescription	Notification description text
NotificationProgress	Notification progress text
NotificationFailure	Notification failure text
Question	Question text
Success	Success text
UserDollar	User dollar sign on shell text
Tip	Tip text
SeparatorText	Separator text
Separator	Separator color
ListTitle	List title text
DevelopmentWarning	Development warning text
StageTime	Stage time text
Progress	General progress text
BackOption	Back option text
LowPriorityBorder	Low priority notification border color
MediumPriorityBorder	Medium priority notification border color
HighPriorityBorder	High priority notification border color
TableSeparator	Table separator
TableHeader	Table header
TableValue	Table value
SelectedOption	Selected option
AlternativeOption	Alternative option
WeekendDay	Weekend day
EventDay	Event day
TableTitle	Table title
TodayDay	Today
TuiBackground	Interactive TUI background color
TuiForeground	Interactive TUI foreground color
TuiPaneBackground	Interactive TUI pane background color
TuiPaneSeparator	Interactive TUI pane separator color
TuiPaneSelectedSeparator	Interactive TUI pane selected separator color
TuiPaneSelectedItemFore	Interactive TUI pane selected item color (foreground)
TuiPaneSelectedItemBack	Interactive TUI pane selected item color (background)
TuiPaneItemFore	Interactive TUI pane item color (foreground)
TuiPaneItemBack	Interactive TUI pane item color (background)
TuiOptionBackground	Interactive TUI option background color
TuiKeyBindingOption	Interactive TUI key binding in option color
TuiOptionForeground	Interactive TUI option foreground color
TuiBoxBackground	Interactive TUI box background color
TuiBoxForeground	Interactive TUI box foreground color
DisabledOption	Disabled option color
TuiKeyBindingBuiltinBackgroundColor	Interactive TUI builtin key binding background color
TuiKeyBindingBuiltinForegroundColor	Interactive TUI builtin key binding foreground color
TuiKeyBindingBuiltinColor	Interactive TUI builtin key binding color

Color selector

The color selector is an interactive TUI that allows you to seamlessly select your favorite color, while getting information about it in the main screen, such as the converted color models, the color levels, and more.

To get information about how to use it, you can find it in the Terminaux manual page:

Color WheelTerminaux - Manual

Color conversion

Your theme files can also support any specifier, as long as the specifier is supported by Terminaux. For a quick reminder, Terminaux supports the true-color specifiers, alongside the color name or the color number, if you intend to use another color model to select colors.

The commands provided by the color conversion Extras addon help you convert from a color model, such as RGB, to another color model, such as CMYK.

KernelColorConversionTools provides you all possible conversion methods to convert a color model to another color model to generate appropriate color specifiers converted to the target unit to create new Color instances for your mod's appearance.

For example, if you have Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow values and you want a hex code of it, you can use one of the following function overloads of ConvertFromCmykToHex():

• ConvertFromCmykToHex(int C, int M, int Y, int K)

• ConvertFromCmykToHex(string CMYKSequence)

Resetting colors

If you need to reset the colors for further text to be written to the console in its natural colors, you can use the ResetColors() function in the ConsoleTools class to reset the foreground and the background colors to their defaults.

public static void ResetColors(bool useKernelColors = false)

Additionally, if you pass true to the useKernelColors parameter, the colors will be reset to the neutral text color for the foreground color and the kernel background color for the background color.