The Gaming Den

More maintenance type stuff. The following new features are installed here on the Gaming Den.

Horizontal Rule This code prints a horizontal rule in the post. The button for it is the one with "hr" on it. The code is simple:
Gives:

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Strikethrough Produces a line through text. The button for it is the one with the "s" on it.
gives:

This is strikethrough font

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Align This aligns your text. There's a drop down list with four choices.




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Spacer This basically functions as an indent feature, except you tell it how far to indent. The default is one space.
gives:

     this line has one space in the front of it.

You can specify how many spaces to use:
gives:

     this line has 10 spaces in front of it

If anybody experiences any problems, please let me know.

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Upcoming:

The Google search seemed like a good idea at the time, but in practice it blows worse than a whore with buck teeth. I found a tool that will rebuild the search index on the forum. However, the installation of that tool is a fairly intensive manual process. I'll be doing it over on Nifty first, then I'll repeat the process here.

Also, I know folks anxiously want an ignore feature. To get that, as best as I can tell, we need to upgrade to v3 of phpBB. I'm investigating what that entails, but it probably won't happen until September at the earliest.

UPDATE!

Thanks much, especially for the news on searching.

Thanks, Z/neil/fbmf/ramnza/everyone else!

A few smaller things have been added. During the install, there was a blip where the forums didn't load properly; I apologize for that. Here's the changes:

Down at the bottom of the page, underneath the "Who is online" list, it will now display a list of admins and mods. Each name in that list should link to the profile of that account.

For some reason, however, fbmf isn't appearing in the list. I need to figure out why and correct that.

Previously, the flood control limit applied to new posts as well as edits. So, for example, if you made a new post and then immediately tried to edit it, you would get a message telling you to wait a bit. That is no longer the case -- any edits to existing posts completely ignore flood control. New posts, however, are still limited.


If you have the pop-up box that notifies you of new PMs enabled, this will now have a new option that allows you to open your PMs in that pop-up box rather than the "main" forum page.


In your user control panel, you can now control whether you see avatars and sigs. For sigs, you have three options: show, show without images, or don't show. Note, however, that it does NOT consider forum smiles to be images (at least, as best as I can tell). For Avatars, you have the option of showing or not showing.


There are now BbCodes available to build tables! Here's a basic example:
This gives:
[row]Level[col]BAB[col]Fort[col]Reflex[col]Will[col]Special[col]Spell Casting [row]1[col]+1[col]+2[col]+2[col]+0[col]Special entry for level 1[col]Spellcasting entry for level 1 [row]2[col]+2[col]+3[col]+3[col]+0 [col]Special entry for level 2[col]Spellcasting entry for level 2
Note the way I typed the second row -- you do not have to put all the entries on one line, and could even use a different line for each entry.

The ROW and COL tags do not have a closing tag; the TABLE tag does.

You can do some formatting within cells. I'm still figuring out some of this, but as one example:
This gives:
[row color=cyan]The color option changes the background color [col]Those options, however, only apply to that one cell

Also, you can use a fair number of BbCodes within a cell to do additional formatting. For example:
Gives:
[row color=cyan][b]The color option changes the background color[/b] [col][size=200]Those options, however, only apply to that one cell[/size]
Finally, there's an MROW tag, but I haven't quite figured out what it does, other than making the first cell bold.
Gives:
[mrow]This is the first cell [col]This is the second cell
There's a button when you create a post for TABLE, but unfortunately, all it adds is the actual TABLE tag, nothing else.

For those of you who know HTML, here's how the codes here map to the HTML tags:
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Feel free to play around with the new table tags in the Testing thread.


I'm expecting to begin work on rebuilding Nifty's search index next weekend. Once I have that done, I'll do the same thing here. So, hopefully, within the next two weeks or so the entire search index should be rebuilt.

Zherog wrote:A few smaller things have been added. During the install, there was a blip where the forums didn't load properly; I apologize for that. Here's the changes:

"In Charge" List

Down at the bottom of the page, underneath the "Who is online" list, it will now display a list of admins and mods. Each name in that list should link to the profile of that account.

For some reason, however, fbmf isn't appearing in the list. I need to figure out why and correct that.

The Great Fence Builder's name now appears in the Admin/Mod contact list.

Zherog wrote:You can do some formatting within cells. I'm still figuring out some of this, but as one example:

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[table]
[row color=cyan]The color option changes the background color
[col]Those options, however, only apply to that one cell
[/table]

This gives:
[row color=cyan]The color option changes the background color [col]Those options, however, only apply to that one cell

That causes both cells to have a cyan background for me. Given that you added the color to the "row" tag, rather than the "col" tag, I imagine that's possibly intended behavior.

I can also add color only to a single cell, like this:
[row]col zero[col color=cyan]col one[col]col two [row]no color[col]on this[col]row
However, since the row tag includes an implicit column tag, I don't see any obvious way to color only the first cell of a row, though any other cell can apparently be colored individually.

Manxome wrote:

Zherog wrote:You can do some formatting within cells. I'm still figuring out some of this, but as one example:

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[table]
[row color=cyan]The color option changes the background color
[col]Those options, however, only apply to that one cell
[/table]

This gives:
[row color=cyan]The color option changes the background color [col]Those options, however, only apply to that one cell

That causes both cells to have a cyan background for me. Given that you added the color to the "row" tag, rather than the "col" tag, I imagine that's possibly intended behavior.

I can also add color only to a single cell, like this:

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[table][row]col zero[col color=cyan]col one[col]col two
[row]no color[col]on this[col]row[/table]

[row]col zero[col color=cyan]col one[col]col two [row]no color[col]on this[col]row
However, since the row tag includes an implicit column tag, I don't see any obvious way to color only the first cell of a row, though any other cell can apparently be colored individually.

[row color=cyan]col zero[col color=white]col one[col color=white]col two [row]no color[col]on this[col]row

like that.

It's really annoying. But you can do it. :-D

Thanks for all of your help, Z.

Game On,
fbmf