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Thread: House sign problems
Message Edited by GoCanes on 06-03-2004 05:37 PM
I have the same problem:
I did this a couple of days ago... opened up my notes.txt file in notepad, and jotted down an idea for my house sign, including colours & line breaks etc. When I opened the notepad in game... it had parsed the hex code and I had colour writing in the notepad!!! Doh!
It would be much much easier if I could simply find a way to get my backslash key to work in-game... I had a look in the keybindings, it's not bound for anything else. Odd.
Next time I remember to do anything about this, I'll just type a backslash into my notes.txt file which I can copy and paste in-game.
Yeah, I forgot it changes all following text to the color requested because I add it to the bottom of my /notepad... Just putting a backslash in teh notes is another good idea... My key works fine in game, so I'm not sure what would cause that issue for anyone unless it was some type of binding... Sorry I can't help with a more permanent resolution...
Ethalsar wrote:
I have the same problem:
I did this a couple of days ago... opened up my notes.txt file in notepad, and jotted down an idea for my house sign, including colours & line breaks etc. When I opened the notepad in game... it had parsed the hex code and I had colour writing in the notepad!!! Doh!
It would be much much easier if I could simply find a way to get my backslash key to work in-game... I had a look in the keybindings, it's not bound for anything else. Odd.
Next time I remember to do anything about this, I'll just type a backslash into my notes.txt file which I can copy and paste in-game.
Yup, I have the same problem.
I think the game only recognises US keyboards- aside from "\", I also can't use "~" to call up a radial menu, as it doesn't recognise the key.
For changing sign colours, as has been pointed out editing the notepad makes the /note screen show the text in colour, and doesn't cut and paste properly. However... the cut and paste uses the Windows clipboard, so it's possible to copy your text from notepad / wordpad in windows and past it in game.
Boba-Eck wrote:
I think the game only recognises US keyboards- aside from "\", I also can't use "~" to call up a radial menu, as it doesn't recognise the key.
Yes, this must be it, I had the same problem with the tilde ("~") key, though it was easy enough to re-bind that.
On a slightly related note, does anyone know if there's a way to use international characters (e.g. é or à) in game with a UK or US keyboard?
Message Edited by Ethalsar on 06-05-2004 12:10 PM
Ok, for the tilde key "~" you can kemap it by going into Options > Controls > Keymapping (on bottom of window)
To get the folor tags to work on your house signs, you may wanna use the trick I do.
Here's my sign, for example. It looks like this outside:
Derianadai's Kitchen
Master Chef Vendors
Coming Soon!
To get that, I did this in my notepad:
.\#009900Derianadai's Kitchen
\#ffcc33Master Chef Vendors
\#33ffffComing Soon!
\#ffffff------
Ok, note two things here. 1) the last line and 2) the period at the front of the first line. Why these?
The last line makes it so all the rest of my notepad goes back to white. It also gives me something to grab when I go to copy and paste. I just hit Backspace once its in the naming window until I get to the " ! " at the end of the line above.
The period at the front of the first line makes it so I have something to grab in the notepad so I know I got the whole hex code. It's easier than trying to go in and retype it in the little naming window.
I just Backspace to get rid of the last line and then hit Ctrl+Home to get to the very beginning. I hit Delete once to kill the period and then hit Enter and voila! colorful sign!
Hope that helps!
I suggest making your sign in something like MicroSoft Word or a word processor and then copy/paste it into your notepad out of game and see if it shows up in game.
Ethalsar wrote:
On a slightly related note, does anyone know if there's a way to use international characters (e.g. é or à) in game with a UK or US keyboard?
Ciwi wrote:
This may seem a dumb question, butI haven't a clue how to copy and paste in game. Could someone explain to me how this works please ? I want to make the colourfull signs for my vendor but as you can probably tell from the way I spell colour, I'm from the UK and our \ key doesn't work in game.
Thanks guys.