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Thread: creating a cool sign
OK, we need to sticky this so we quit answering it.
You have to go into a text program like Wordpad. Type it out, and then copy it and paste it on the sign.
Now I know the next question is 'how do you paste?'. Listen. Go into Options and under keymaps. Look around. You will find options for copy, cut, and paste. Change it to whatever you want, but most people use CTRL-SHFT-C for copy for example.
(CTRL-SHFT-C's this thread so he can easily CTRL-SHFT-V it tomorrow when someone asks)
\#FF0000\This line is red text
\#00FF00\This line is green text
\#0000FF\This line is blue text
I think thats right, but as I'm at work right now I can't check..
\#FF0000\This is a\@02red line.
Would look like:
This is a red line.
Note the 2 spaces between "a" and "red" where the original line didn't have any spaces.
Undergrid wrote:
Note the 2 spaces between "a" and "red" where the original line didn't have any spaces.
Except of course the forum changes multiple spaces into one, sigh....
I am able to get three lines of text on my notepad
Syri's Fine Melee Weapons
BOWCASTERS
Pistols
But this won't translate onto the sign. Character limit? Why do I see other signs more lengthy than mine??????
Seena
I use the same technique for naming my harvesters - free advertising 
Open Notepad or Wordpad (or whatever text editor you're comfortable with)
Create a new plain vanilla text file on your Desktop and name it something appropriate - mine's "SWG_Harv.txt"
Enter each line as you want it to appear, including any color changes at the beginning of each line.
Be sure to include a normal Carriage Return between each line - do NOT try to use spaces!
For harvesters, I always close the last line with \#FFFFFF to reset back to white text; otherwise when I pay maintenance the system message stays in the last color I used.
Now, be sure you've mapped a key to the "Edit/Paste" command - typically this will be Control + Shift + V
When you need to set the name of ANY structure - your house, tent, harvester, factory, whatever, task-swap out of SWG (I use the Windows key to open my Start menu then minimize everything)open your name template file, select all of the text (Control + A usually) and Copy it (Control + C), then use the hotkey in SWG to Paste it in. You will only see the last line of text in the name box, that's normal.
FWIW, I use a 4-line sign on my structures, as such:
House of Sa'ab
\#FF0000Smuggling Supplies
\#00FF00Liberation City, Corellia
and Asylum, Tatooine\#FFFFFF
Smuggling Supplies
Liberation City, Corellia
and Asylum, Tatooine
yes, the in game /note pad will work. I find it easiest to leave three spaces at the start of the first line as for some reasong highlighting and copying from the /note is almost a precise science. I also insert a carriage return at the end so when i copy i highlight from three space before the first word to one line after the last.
Yeah i figure there is an easier way to do it, but i say stick with your strengths and mine seems to be making simple things complex
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