
The foreground/background colors for selected nicks, or selecting text in the editbox comes from the theme you defined in Windows' control-panel. This is also used for selected lines in menus or dialogs. It's possible to edit just that 1 setting in windows without changing your entire theme. Or, you could tweak the mirc theme to choose editbox and listbox colors which contrast against the selection colors. The way to change that setting will be different in different versions of windows. At the bottom of that area, click on "Window Color", which opens a dialog "Window Color and Appearance".Ĥ. If you current theme is currently "unsaved theme", you'll either want to save the current theme to another name so you can return to it, or write down the current RGB colors before you change them.ĥ. In the 'item' dropdown, choose 'Selected Items'.Ħ. For now, let's avoid changing the font or the size, and notice the 2 squares labeled 'Color'. The top square is the background color and the bottom square is the text color. These control the text and background color for these selected items both here in mIRC and pretty much all Windows Apps.ħ.

You'll want to choose a background color that contrasts well against the foreground color you choose, but also contrasts well against the foreground/background colors you choose in the Alt+K dialog for the foreground/background colors in Editbox and Listbox.Ĩ.
