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Thread: Tuesday Tips January 25th Cut And Paste In-Game
GrandPotato wrote:
I have an idea! Why not make these the default settings in the next mini-publish? I think THAT would be cool.
That's a fantastic tip. Along with that setting, I would recommend changing a few of the other default options. Namely:
[ X ] Show Onscreen Waypoint Monitor
[ ] Show Arrows To Waypoints Onscreen
These options should default to this in my opinion. The onscreen waypoint monitor is an essential tool and unless someone tells a new player or they experiment, they wouldn't know to enable it.
Message Edited by Ewach on 01-25-2005 03:46 PM
Barb-Wire wrote:only one caveat about 60% of the time cutting and pasting from anything but notepad outside the game seems not to work. so you have to go into your profiles folder select your station name and edit the note.txt file externally to get most things into SWG then you can cut and paste external items in game.also cut and paste in game does not work in in-game email.
you can cut and paste from am e-mail if you forward it
I wanted to create an HTML color version of a "City News" to send out through email to the city residents. How could I do that?
Amsaran wrote:
Hey there TH,
I wanted to create an HTML color version of a "City News" to send out through email to the city residents. How could I do that?
1. You should compose your letter in a text editor like textpad or notepad.
2. Whatever you want to colorize, use this:
\#FF1234\This is my City Newsletter text....
(You'll need to color it after every color switch I think - can anyone else confirm?)
3. Then "copy" all of your newsletter text.
4. Go into the game and open up an email.
5. Paste the text.
6. Send yourself a copy of the newsletter as a test.
After that you should be good to go.
Warryyr wrote:FYI - the color code for switching back to white is #FFFFFF, for when you want to transition from emphasized and colored text to the default white color of the email. If you use google.com and search on "hex color chart" you'll find a huge amount of them, with all the codes you need for every color under the rainbow.
Thunderheart wrote:
Amsaran wrote:
Hey there TH,
I wanted to create an HTML color version of a "City News" to send out through email to the city residents. How could I do that?1. You should compose your letter in a text editor like textpad or notepad.
2. Whatever you want to colorize, use this:
\#FF1234\This is my City Newsletter text....
(You'll need to color it after every color switch I think - can anyone else confirm?)
3. Then "copy" all of your newsletter text.
4. Go into the game and open up an email.
5. Paste the text.
6. Send yourself a copy of the newsletter as a test.
After that you should be good to go.
The format for coloring is:
\#RRGGBB\ where RR, GG, and BB are 2-digit hexadecimal numbers of the red, green and blue components respectively. (00-FF... capitalization of A-F is not important)
To reset the color to the default color (White for signs, yellow for tells/chat, forgot what it is for emails) use:
\#. (meaning, use a period instead of RRGGBB) This is useful in signs that have a highly limited number of characters you can use. (Each character of the codes also take up space on the sign's character limit even though they are not visible.)
Found all of this here
Thunderheart wrote:
Amsaran wrote:
Hey there TH,
I wanted to create an HTML color version of a "City News" to send out through email to the city residents. How could I do that?1. You should compose your letter in a text editor like textpad or notepad.
2. Whatever you want to colorize, use this:
\#FF1234\This is my City Newsletter text....
(You'll need to color it after every color switch I think - can anyone else confirm?)
3. Then "copy" all of your newsletter text.
4. Go into the game and open up an email.
5. Paste the text.
6. Send yourself a copy of the newsletter as a test.
After that you should be good to go.
Thanks TH.
To the people that complained copy 'n paste doesn't work all the time
You can only copy 'n paste from textboxes that can be edited. That means the chat-/commandline, macro edit box, email edit box (forward / reply), notepad, structure naming box and item description box when offering something to a vendor. You can't copy and paste from all others (p.a. chatlog, email viewer, item details).
Color coding tip
You only need the first backslash in front of the color code, so a green text looks like this:
\#00FF00Here is green text\#FFFFFF
I always put the base color to the end of my text, just to make sure it switches back. Color coding in chat channels works too, you just need to make sure you put a sign in front before color coding:
.\#00FF00Here is green text\#FFFFFF If you want to make a house sign you should use an out-game text editor, i find it easier to color-code if you can see the code, as well as that makes you able to write multiple line signs.
I would also advice you to write long emails offline, just paste them in-game if you like to see how they are looking. It happens way too much that you get disconnected while working on an email.
Time saving tip of the month - don't spend your time watching an entertainer for buffs. Musician buffs are working very well, but dancer ones don't stick.
greetz,
Time saving tip of the month - don't spend your time watching an entertainer for buffs. Musician buffs are working very well, but dancer ones don't stick.
greetz,
One dancer, Jolen Blalock, who has a dancer/musician BuffBot on at least 3 different servers that I know of, now tells customers in her macro that the dancer buff is bugged, and she will /setperform on the leader of the group. How she does this, I don't know, but each time I've been there, only the leader of the group got buffed.
1. You should compose your letter in a text editor like textpad or notepad
While its EASIER to compose the letter in textpad or notepad, you actually can do it in the game's email as well... or the games notepad, maybe that is what he meant. Regardless, if youcompose it inSWG's emailjust do the #RRGGBB[text] and the put the \ in afterwards. This way you can still see your code as you type it, etc. Wouldn't recommend this for a long letter with too many changes but its handy for short stuff and it lets you see the results of your color codes right away as opposed to writing it all out and then pasting it into SWG's email to see the results.
If I want to color or use multiple lines in my building sign, I will compose the sign in the game's email applet using the above method and then copy/paste it into the change building sign box.
Cheers,
radiant.Arba
PS. I also agree that copy/paste of some sort should be a default in SWG, never really figured out why it isn't lol - I like to use Ctrl+Alt+V or C or X but same concept, its nice to somewhat emulate the windows copy/cut/paste keys within the game...