Topic: User default post color

[Amacythe]

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How about a setting in profile to select default font and/or color for the member's post?  I know I've seen that before, I think on an ikonBoard.



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[klumy]

What exactly does this option do. I didn't get it. Do you mean every usergroup should have another colour in posts?

[Wezz6400]

I think he means setting a default font and color for the messages you post on the forum. You can change them using SMFC and I think he wants to set set the default per user in the profile.

[Amacythe]

I mean let each member select their own font color/style so their posts will always default to that color/style unless they select a different color/style ... and um... I'm female.

[Brian Lacy]

Sounds like it would probably be a very simple Mod, actually.. I'll look into it when SMF is available.

[Amacythe]

Thanks Brian

[[Unknown]]

I know one person on my forum ALWAYS does every post in blue sup.

^{something like this.}

I know I've thouhgt about adding this feature to my board at least...

-[Unknown]

[madfiddler]

I'd definately be up for that feature

Thanks,

-mark

[Anguz]

Well, considering that next time I set up a forum, I'm planning to disable the font, size, color, shadow, glow tags (at least), I most probably would not care for this feature.

I can see, though, how many would value it, if not built-in, as a mod at least.

In a forum I created, most users had their own style, certain combinations of the above mentioned tags and sometimes even move. That's where I got the phobia that made me want to disable them all in the future.

[[Unknown]]

Perhaps this is what you're after?

-[Unknown]

[madfiddler]

I stuck this on... The only thing I could find was in the profile, under layout and settings there were two new windows... The description for each was ":" - just a colon... so I don't know if these are boxes for the colour setup or not.. and if they were, how do you use them?

Thanks,

Mark.

[Elijah Bliss]

Perhaps this is what you're after?

-[Unknown]

Not working for me. I tried in RC2 and RC1. Also I have to manually add the language to the Modifications.english.php even though the Package Manager tells me that the installation was successful.

[madfiddler]

It also adds a checkbox to Current Theme Settings, with no desciption to it..

[Elijah Bliss]

It also adds a checkbox to Current Theme Settings, with no desciption to it..

add this to your Modifications.english.php

Code: [Select]

$txt['bbc_before'] = 'Automatic BBC Before Posts';
$txt['bbc_after'] = 'Automatic BBC After Posts';
$txt['disallow_auto_bbc'] = 'Disallow automatic BBC';
but even so, it's still not working now unless I am adding the tags incorrectly.

[madfiddler]

So do you put the open bbc tags in the first box in your profile, and the close bbc tags in the second box?

[Elijah Bliss]

So do you put the open bbc tags in the first box in your profile, and the close bbc tags in the second box?

Yes, from what I understand. That's what I did, I tried simple bold tags but it doesn't work for me.

[[Unknown]]

Oops, not "add above", "add before"...

-[Unknown]

[Elijah Bliss]

Oops, not "add above", "add before"...

-[Unknown]

It works! Great stuff!

[codenaught]

Nice one. Works great. I really like it. 

[Elijah Bliss]

Just out of curiosity, where exactly is that custom information stored (tags)? I don't see them stored in the database anywhere.