Wrong Color of texts [SOLVED]

[DOSadnie]

The

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color /?

stipulates usage of such colors

0 = Black
1 = Blue
2 = Green
3 = Aqua
4 = Red
5 = Purple
6 = Yellow
7 = White
8 = Gray
9 = Light Blue

A = Light Green
B = Light Aqua
C = Light Red
D = Light Purple
E = Light Yellow
F = Bright White

But e.g. this script

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@echo off

chcp 65001 >nul

color 05

echo.   TEST
echo.   ████

pause

shows me light yellow text on my background instead of purple on black. And by mine background I mean colors chosen by me at

Properties > Colors > Screen Background > Selected Colors Values
Properties > Colors > Popup Background > Selected Colors Values

for every CMD window I could had evoke - and which are now stored in the Registry at

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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console\%SystemRoot%_system32_cmd.exe]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console\%SystemRoot%_SysWOW64_cmd.exe]

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3797103458-798797042-3558267449-1001\Console]

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3797103458-798797042-3558267449-1001\Console\%SystemRoot%_system32_cmd.exe]

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3797103458-798797042-3558267449-1001\Console\%SystemRoot%_SysWOW64_cmd.exe]

I can for example use

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color 06

to get [the darker] yellow [on also my background] but similar case is with the two reds:

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color 0c

will get me text in Light Red but i.e. the proper color, but

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color 04

shows me apparently Black text


So what happens if I choose

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color 00

?

i.e. the Black. My text is shown with colors chosen by me at

Properties > Colors > Screen Text > Selected Colors Values
Properties > Colors > Popup Text > Selected Colors Values

And what happens if I choose

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color 0e

i.d. the Light Yellow which is wrongly shown when I use

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color 05

as reported by me at the beginning of this post? Well, then I get extra light / pale yellow. So either I am able to utilize 3 yellow colors instead of just 2 or I have correctly 2 yellow colors and 1 gold / light brown



So in overall: what Matrix tomfoolery is happening here?

Is it because at

Properties > Colors >

I did change the default values?

And how do I fix this?



I am using Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 x64

[ShadowThief]

Correct, the values of the color command are indices of the array of colors that are normally set in the registry, which you've changed in your settings.

[DOSadnie]

Yep

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Is it because at

Properties > Colors >

I did change the default values?

It sure looks like it: after adjusting those values once more for example my 3 yellows are no more- I only have that one legit Light Yellow at my disposal


I have also noticed that if I create an LNK leading to this test BAT from my initial post and select for it

Shortcut > Advanced > Run as Administrator

and execute it then I can really see e.g.

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color 04

i.e. Red text on Black background. But this trick does not seem to work for some other more complicated BAT that I use on a daily basis [and for which I just lost my gold text despite re-choosing it in Properties]


All in the feature of colors for CMD window chosen with a BAT and at

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Properties > Colors >

seems like a total user unfriendly mess


Thus

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how do I fix this?
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Revert to defaults and thus see colors only when induced through a given script on a file-by-file basis? Hence I have to decide which modus operandi I prefer?

But then a question arises: if I will indulge is adjusting colors of my scripts and then decide to include them within e.g. AHK files and publish them- then end AutoHotkey users might get a totally unreadable element of them? And such users not having knowledge in regards to adjusting the BAT parts [or even to coding in general] will probably deem such scripts as unusual garbage?

[ShadowThief]

In my experience, people choosing custom colors in the options is extremely rare (in the thirty-odd years that I've been using a computer, you're the only person I've ever heard of who's actually done it). I wouldn't worry too much about other people changing their colors. Also, it isn't possible to set the foreground and background to the same value with the color command (the interpreter ignores the command when that happens so things like color 00 or color 11 don't work), so the text will always be at least semi-legible.

[DOSadnie]

OK, thank you for your input

As for

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how do I fix this?
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Revert to defaults
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I guess I would have to wipe out from Registry entries made there by my color adjustments to prove that theory right