Thanks everyone for the replies. I suppose the real question I should have asked was is there a way to parse a line of text from the mud and capture the colors from it so that you can apply those colors to a label? I thought about trying to write my own function that would take a selection and parse ...

Not sure if this is helpful, but if you had a miniconsole named ChatWindow, you could access the x and y with ChatWindow.x and so forth.

yea that doens't work, only displays "more plain text" and it comes out red (the color set by the stylesheet)

Thanks, while not exactly what I was hoping for, that did show me how to concat tags together to use variables. I might be able to get this working now.

I'm attempting to migrate from zmud to mudlet and so I'm pretty new to mudlet.
I am trying to create a status bar that sits on the bottom of my screen and displays text according to triggers that fire. That part is simple enough and I have it working, but the problem comes when I'm trying to color ...