Rifleman Archive

I told you to ignore this! Jeez! Don't you listen?

Well, now that you're here... I've been trying to figure out how to put a clickable link in one of these posts so I thought I would test it in an actual note (this one). I'm not sure if I can actually add HTML to this note, but I'm adding an Anchor tag below to see if it works...

<A HREF="http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=rifleman&message.id=28013> Rifle Speed 101: How to Calculate Your Rifle's Current Speed </A>

End of test

Okay... that obviously didnt work...
Let me try the "Edit as HTML" button...

Rifle Speed 101: How to Calculate Your Rifle's Current Rate of Fire

Okay... now we're getting somewhere...

I can get a link that opens in a NEW window... let me see if i can make it open in the CURRENT window...

Rifle Speed 101: How to Calculate Your Rifle's Actual Speed


View information in THIS window
View information in NEW window

Uh oh.

You know what this means, right?

BS THREAD TIME!

Have you guys noticed that 50% of the SWG population spells it "turrents" instead of "turrets?" Do you think they're thinking of "currents"?

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RueKursk wrote:

Uh oh.
You know what this means, right?
BS THREAD TIME!

Have you guys noticed that 50% of the SWG population spells it "turrents" instead of "turrets?" Do you think they're thinking of "currents"?

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RueKursk... Hehe... use this threadfor whatever you want!

I have discovered the following things with this link testing:
(1) Even if you specify a message id in the MIDDLE of a thread, it opens to the TOPof that thread.
(2) If you change your Signature, it apparently changes it IN EVERY POST you've ever made!
This indicates that your signature is not actually ADDED to the note, but a LINK to your signature is added to the note (your signature is kept in one place and every note you write points to that place -- even when you change the way it looks).

I would like to post a Haiku that I wrote while playing a Wizard on Discworld MUD.

Ook ook ook ook ook ook ook.

Ook ook ook ook ook ook ook ook ook.

Ook ook ook ook ook ook ook.

Thank you,

(those of you that know Discworld or Terry Pratchett understand completely)

Tezcltpoca....

It helps if you know HTML (basic web page language) but is not entirely necessary.
First... you start a regular old note or reply, then press the "Edit as HTML" button below.

The following discussion ONLY applies to "HTML" editing mode:

Your text entry window (what I am typing in as I type this note) should now re-display with your current message AND with HTML "tags". Tags are just "commands" to HTML that control how and what gets displayed. I cannot go into a tutorial of HTML, but here are a couple of real basics:

If you see a <P> this means "start a new Paragraph" (i.e., skip down a couple of blank lines).
If you see a <BR> this means a "line break" and skips down to start of next line.

A command that begins with a "/" is and END TAG and ends a previous tag. For example:

If you see a </P> this means "End the paragraph I started earlier with a <P>."

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OK, with that really limited knowledge, here's how you add a Clickable link:

The "Anchor" tag is used to add a clickable link. This tag is simply abbreviated as "<A>".
Only it isnt quite that simple: Here is what you would type into make a clickable link:

<A HREF="http://site.i.want.to.jump.to"> Text to display in your note for the link</A>

FOR EXAMPLE: If you wanted to jump to www.usatoday.com:

<A HREF="http://www.usatoday.com"> Click here to jump to USA Today! </A>

Why don't you play around with it in this thread now?

Using Colors in the game and in your signature...

Warning: This post is not for the weak of heart (or weak of math). It talks about how to define colors using hexadecimal numbers. If you're already lost, then you don't want to read this!
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The text you enterfor your signature in your profile can contain HTML tags (youDONT have to change to any special HTML edit mode to use them in your signature... just go put them in now!)
See my Signature as an example of one using color tags.

To specify colored text,use the <FONT...> tag like this:
(By the way, HTML tag words can be UPPER or lower case or mixed... HTML doesnt care)

<font color=red> this text would be red </font>
<font color=lightgreen> this text would be light green </font>

HTML recognizes a wide range of colors: red, blue, white, black, lightblue, lightgreen, etc....
But to get a REALLY SPECIFIC color, you can specify a 6-digit hexadecimal number like '#12AB3D'.

Hexadecimal numbers are: 0, 1, 2, 3,.....7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F
where A is the same numeric value as the decimal number 10, only represented with one character.
and F is the largest possible single-character value equal to 15.
Some examples of two-character hexadecimal numbers:
Hexnumber Decimal value
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00 0
01 1
09 9
0A 10
0F 15
1016
1A26
2032
FF255 (largest possible 2-character hex number)

What this has to do with COLORS in HTML:

In HTML, you can specify colors as a 6-character hex number preceded by a '#' character.
For example: #000000 or #FFFFFF or #129AF0

Where the first two hex characters are the amount of RED in the color,
the second two characters are the amount of GREEN in the color,
and the third twocharacters are the amount of BLUE in the color.

Examples:
<font color=#FF0000> This is bright red... no green or blue </font>
<font color=#00FF00> This is bright green... no red or blue </font>
<font color=#0000FF> This is bright blue... no red or green</font>

<font color=#000000> This is BLACK.. no color at all </font>
<font color=#FFFFFF> This is bright WHITE.. all bright colors are present </font>

Okay... This has gotten way out of hand. Just search for HTML on the internet and you can find lots of information. There are all kinds of tags that do all kinds of things... but SOE may get mad if you start screwing with your posts too much....

I'm done. Sorry for the long post...