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Started by Amacythe, November 23, 2003, 03:00:13 AM

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Amacythe

You already have it written with the ability to add smilies, but what about adding fonts or font colors?

Spaceman-Spiff

You CAN Do it already

if you mean adding the color and font options
you can just do that in the template ;)

Amacythe

I guess I don't communicate my wants that well.  I mean adding MORE colors and MORE fonts.

andrea

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As Spaceman-Spiff already wrote this is possible by editing your theme. It is in the file "Post.php" inside your themes directory. There you would edit the predefined values which appear in the options. Furthermore you can always manually alter the values when you enter the post, you can use any font name and any color code. The poster is not restricted to the predefined option values.

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Fizzy

As an aside, would members be able to nominate in their profile their own font and colour defaults for their own messages ?  Like if I wanted all my posts in Courier Blue Italic ?
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - A.E.


andrea

Quote from: Fizzy on November 23, 2003, 04:46:03 AM
As an aside, would members be able to nominate in their profile their own font and colour defaults for their own messages ?  Like if I wanted all my posts in Courier Blue Italic ?

I personally find the better ansatz is to not to use to many different color shemes if activating several themes. So people are not tempted to use colors which are unreadable in another forum members fav theme. For example have not one theme with black bg color and another theme with white bg color. Somebody with the black bg theme might use yellow color looking good in his theme but unreadable in the other theme.

Andrea Hubacher
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Amacythe

Andrea, I know you can go in and add fonts and colors.  You could do the same with smilies, I am asking if it can be written the same as the add smilies.

Also,
Quote from: Fizzy on November 23, 2003, 04:46:03 AM
As an aside, would members be able to nominate in their profile their own font and colour defaults for their own messages ?  Like if I wanted all my posts in Courier Blue Italic ?

I have already requested this option.

Quote from: Amacythe on September 01, 2003, 03:20:07 AM
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.

Spaceman-Spiff

adding more color options or font types will be as easy as editing HTML, because they are in HTML
if you're still not comfortable with this, i'm sure someone can post a short instruction/tutorial how to do it, in the future ;)

Derek

Can we have an option to turn off font colouring altogether? I hate when new users select a font that's insanely hard on the eyes, like bright red on dark blue. That's a killer.

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