Eddiebot: Feat: Add custom embed colors to messages

[GoluffyxD]

Feature Request

The embeds made by Eddiebot are currently blue only and custom color embeds can be used to make embeds look more colorful and insightful.

Screenshots of current Embeds:

For details regarding the discussion: https://github.com/EddieJaoudeCommunity/support/discussions/474
Idea raised by : @Vyvy-vi
Suggestions by @eddiejaoude :

• standup: green
• ... : amber
• alexjs: red

Useful Resources:

• https://discordjs.guide/popular-topics/embeds.html#using-the-richembedmessageembed-constructor

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[mstanciu552]

We should decide on colors for each command.
For example:

^bio -> amber
^coc ->
^help -> blue
^iam ->
^issue ->
^roles ->
^reminder ->
^standup -> green
^stats -> 
^tips ->
^support ->
alexjs-> red

Please add more colors if you have any idea because i am out of ideas.

[Vyvy-vi]

hmm perhaps we could colour code them in groups according to functionality?

bio, roles, iam: colour 1 (personalisation)
support, issue, coc, tips: colour 2 (github/opensource) -> github-gray or some other colour
help embeds, reminder embeds: colou3 (utils)
alexjs, error_embeds: red (flags/negation)
system messages- green/red (logs)

(we could use some nice colour pallets from Coolors colour pallets)

[mstanciu552]

Good idea grouping them by functionality.
I will try to find a solution for this and make a PR but it might take a couple of days because of college. 😄

[mstanciu552]

I may have an idea for this new feature.
As you can see the defaultEmbed function does not have any parameters and we could add a color parameter as such:

-  defaultEmbed: () => {
-    return new MessageEmbed()
-      .setColor('#0099ff')
-      ...
+  defaultEmbed: (color: string) => {
+    return new MessageEmbed()
+      .setColor(color)
+      ...

Any thoughts on the matter?

[AllanRegush]

I may have an idea for this new feature.
As you can see the defaultEmbed function does not have any parameters and we could add a color parameter as such:

-  defaultEmbed: () => {
-    return new MessageEmbed()
-      .setColor('#0099ff')
-      ...
+  defaultEmbed: (color: string) => {
+    return new MessageEmbed()
+      .setColor(color)
+      ...

Any thoughts on the matter?

Maybe, have a default parameter?

Like this:
ts defaultEmbed: (color: string = '#0099ff') => { return new MessageEmbed() .setColor(color) ...

[eddiejaoude]

This is coming along great 👍 . Awesome team work 💪

I think grouping the colours makes sense 👍

[mstanciu552]

Yep really good teamwork 👍 .
So the default color is this blue #0099ff.
The color for alerts(such as alexjs, errors) could be this red #e84118.
The color for system messages could be this green #4cd137.
The color bio, roles, iam could be amber #ffc200.
The color for support, issue, coc, tips could be github-gray #ffffff.
The color for help embeds, reminder embeds could be purple#9c88ff.

If you have any other suggestions please post them. I'm not really good at color picking 😋

[mstanciu552]

New problem for this Issue.
I already posted the defaultEmbed() function, but there are some messages not being sent with this I think:

I don't think the defaultEmbed() function is being used here, but I might be wrong.

We might have to add setColor there as well.

Share your thoughts please. 😋 👍

[Vyvy-vi]

we'll have to use .setColor()

[AllanRegush]

The PR for this feature has been merged. Closing.

[eddiejaoude]

Thank you 👍