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Title: 5000 posts = username glow!
Post by: Kurt Angle on September 21, 2002, 01:08:05 PM

Thats right, I just looked in the options and there is an option for username glow for those of you lucky enough to have 5000 posts!

Title: 5000 posts = username glow!
Post by: Samwise on September 21, 2002, 01:12:31 PM

Neat. Except for my crap IE that can\'t display the glow! :mad:

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Post by: CHIZZY on September 21, 2002, 01:15:29 PM

how can you tell how many posts you have anymore?

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Post by: Samwise on September 21, 2002, 01:16:59 PM

Check your profile - or the top 20 list under \'members\'.

Is my name glowing? I can\'t see the effect..... hehe, so I can\'t see if it looks good or not. :D

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Post by: Heat on September 21, 2002, 01:18:59 PM

Download IE6 then, and the SP1

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Post by: Samwise on September 21, 2002, 01:20:23 PM

You didn\'t answer my question. :)

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Post by: Bozco on September 21, 2002, 01:20:58 PM

I\'m only 1100 some odd post away.  Sweet something to still look forward to!

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Post by: Kurt Angle on September 21, 2002, 01:23:44 PM

I\'ve check in netscape and IE and it looks the same in both, no glow as far as I can tell.

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Post by: shockwaves on September 21, 2002, 01:37:14 PM

I don\'t see any glow either.  It doesn\'t list glow color in your profile.  Maybe it, like, hasn\'t been enabled yet or something.  *shrug*

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Post by: Samwise on September 21, 2002, 01:45:14 PM

"username glow:
Enter in a color to make yer username glow. This feature will have no effect if you do not have a minimum 5000 post count."

Seeing as how I have over 6000 posts, the post count shouldn\'t be the problem...

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Post by: Bozco on September 21, 2002, 02:35:14 PM

I can\'t wait till[glow=red]Bozco[/glow]:burn:

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Post by: Solid Snake 88 on September 21, 2002, 02:47:37 PM

Seeing as how my average daily post count has dropped massively in the last few months, it\'ll be another two years before you see

[glow=red]Solid Snake 88[/glow]

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Post by: mm on September 21, 2002, 05:39:41 PM

dont get excited yet, im still working on the code

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Post by: videoholic on September 21, 2002, 06:36:31 PM

I don\'t like the glow.  BUt I will still do it because I am cool.  And I like to do things that are cool.

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Post by: Bladez on September 21, 2002, 06:40:44 PM

Good I\'ll finally be able to  see this type [glow=red]Bladez[/glow] when 5000 comes around.

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Post by: on September 21, 2002, 06:58:59 PM

Looks good mm. Im still working towards 1000, i think im almost there too :D

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Post by: shockwaves on September 21, 2002, 09:09:09 PM

Just don\'t get it done for the next 8 months or so, and maybe I\'ll be able to use it then :(

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Post by: SwifDi on September 21, 2002, 09:21:54 PM

Is it me, or why do the profile pages seem to take forever to load? And if you don\'t have an avatar, you can\'t see your profile.

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Post by: theomen on September 21, 2002, 11:27:28 PM

yeah profile pages take a shit load of timme to load.

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Post by: mm on September 22, 2002, 12:30:15 AM

thats cause dozens of queries have to be exocuted when viewing profiles

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Post by: psx2champ on September 22, 2002, 01:04:58 AM

*working on 100 posts*

:-\\ *shrugs*

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Post by: kopking on September 22, 2002, 10:34:51 AM

hhmmmmmmmmmmmm, well i cant see anyones names glowing yet........

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Post by: on September 22, 2002, 10:50:23 AM

Vid\'s was glowing, but now it seems it isnt.
What would be really cool is glowing stars.... although it may get annoying...

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Post by: Soul Reaver on September 22, 2002, 03:07:00 PM

Woohoo

Another 2 years for me.

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Post by: Mr. Kennedy on September 22, 2002, 07:27:32 PM

bwahahaha Im closing in on 5k

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Post by: theomen on September 22, 2002, 09:10:18 PM

I may regret starting the thread that inspired this new aneminity...  I\'m a little worried that the names will not appear to glow, but will instead look fuzzy.  Causing me to go blind at an early age.

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Post by: kopking on September 23, 2002, 11:54:54 AM

well ive put mine as glow red, but ive als got my name colour as red, is this causing it not to glow???

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Post by: shockwaves on September 23, 2002, 12:19:50 PM

No, it\'s just that mm hasn\'t finished the coding for the glow yet.  You\'ll probably notice the glow being added on before long.

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Post by: mm on September 23, 2002, 12:22:20 PM

yeah, i added what code i thought was right and it made every name who had 5000 posts or more, glow red by default, or whatever hex code was put in

plus the glow looked terrible no matter what strength i made it

im still working on it tho

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Post by: mm on September 23, 2002, 03:07:10 PM

ok, it works, sort of

you MUST use hex codes and not color names

it added a stupid blank line between name and title

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Post by: shockwaves on September 23, 2002, 03:36:05 PM

That\'s the ugly with the space.  Try taking the
 out of the end of that line.  Since you already have a table in there, it\'s like putting in two line breaks.

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Post by: mm on September 23, 2002, 03:46:36 PM

the
 is in the template by default
if i remove it, yer name and title will flow together

:nut:

yer gonna have to play with the settings to get it to look right
you must use a # before the hex code, and the codes might not show up exactly right

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Post by: Bozco on September 23, 2002, 04:09:40 PM

Where can I find these hex codes at?

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Post by: theomen on September 23, 2002, 04:36:25 PM

here are your hex codes, dear sir;
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/

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Post by: Mr. Kennedy on September 23, 2002, 05:49:08 PM

crap, I thought a colored name was cool... now it\'s not hip anymore, "glow" is.  Looks like it\'ll be a while til I\'m cool again.

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Post by: theomen on September 23, 2002, 06:45:53 PM

it\'ll take longer than you think, my unpopular friend ;)

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Post by: shockwaves on September 23, 2002, 06:53:44 PM

Quote

Originally posted by mm
the
 is in the template by default
if i remove it, yer name and title will flow together

:nut:

yer gonna have to play with the settings to get it to look right
you must use a # before the hex code, and the codes might not show up exactly right

Then in that case, I know there is a way to use glow without the use of tables, which would fix the spacing.  Let me see if I can remember it.

Ok, got it working on my computer atleast...

Right now, the code is this:

mm

Try making it this:

mm

I also think the hex codes weren\'t showing up right because of how you placed the quotes in the color and strength area.  If you had them the way I put them in the span tag, the color would show exactly, but the way they are, it gives it a red tint.

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Post by: Sublimesjg on September 23, 2002, 11:40:49 PM

hows mine looking

and is the other parts like user title color and name done with hex as well or something else

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Post by: shockwaves on September 24, 2002, 02:56:57 AM

The name and title part can be done with hex, or just by typing in a color.

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Post by: mm on September 24, 2002, 03:00:25 AM

thanks shockwaves, ill fix it later

im not good at HTML

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Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on September 24, 2002, 04:42:01 AM

Html isn\'t hard.. thought u were good at it mm?

i\'ll get to 5000 again.. Not far off now, I wonder how many posts i\'d be at now if i didn\'t lose my post count the first time i changed my name and from all the other problems.....

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Post by: mm on September 24, 2002, 05:35:01 AM

im a hardware god, always hated programming, whatever the language

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Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on September 24, 2002, 07:26:58 AM

lol.. I\'m fine with both. Now electronics ahh so fun..

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Post by: Tyrant on September 24, 2002, 08:02:24 AM

Quote

Originally posted by §ôµÏG®ïñD
Now electronics ahh so fun..

^this man speaks teh truth.
:)

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Post by: mm on September 24, 2002, 08:43:01 AM

welp, it worked shockwaves, thanks

but the glow colors still dont show up right

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Post by: Darth Joyda on September 24, 2002, 09:07:29 AM

Ghee Whiz, ol\' Joyda truly should excersize his fingers now. The reward is truly tempting. Tempting to post meaningless replies - or in the words of the common member, Spam.

But I will not give in to the Dark Side.

Light Side stronger is. Win, in the end, we will.

Yes. Mmm?

Title: 5000 posts = username glow!
Post by: Kurt Angle on September 24, 2002, 09:36:56 AM

Samwise\'s name has disappeared!

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Post by: Samwise on September 24, 2002, 10:52:15 AM

Nope, it\'s just dark with a red glow... at least if the glow\'s working on your PC (it\'s not on my PC, but it is at school - which is where I set the glow and font color :)).

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Post by: shockwaves on September 24, 2002, 11:02:47 AM

Quote

Originally posted by mm
welp, it worked shockwaves, thanks

but the glow colors still dont show up right

For some reason, it isn\'t taking what is entered into the field and transfering it to the html.    It\'s coming out in the html as:


Since it defaults to red, the glows will all appear red until this were to be fixed.

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Post by: mm on September 24, 2002, 11:32:41 AM

.$post[field9].   translates into profile field 9

which is where yer glow color is entered

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Post by: shockwaves on September 24, 2002, 11:39:53 AM

Yeah, but the point is that, for whatever reason, it doesn\'t seem to be inserting whatever hex code is entered.

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Post by: kopking on September 24, 2002, 01:08:36 PM

ok, well ive put my glow as #66ff00, that was meant to be green, but its come up red, where can i get the real ones??? real codes i mean

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Post by: shockwaves on September 24, 2002, 01:16:33 PM

That would be green.  The hex codes for the glow just aren\'t working yet.

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Post by: nO-One on September 24, 2002, 01:58:11 PM

wheee glow in about a year for me.

:p

(note this post was kinda intended for me to get closer to glowy text :p)

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Post by: CHIZZY on September 24, 2002, 02:10:23 PM

Quote

Originally posted by kopking
ok, well ive put my glow as #66ff00, that was meant to be green, but its come up red, where can i get the real ones??? real codes i mean

WTF bro? you glow hurts my eyes!!! Keep it!  :D

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Post by: Titan on September 24, 2002, 02:22:18 PM

Time for me to spam. I\'ve got a 1000+ to go :)

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Post by: shockwaves on September 24, 2002, 02:42:55 PM

I say that since I helped mm with the html for the glow, I should get glow without having to reach 5000 posts :D

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Post by: mm on September 24, 2002, 03:19:48 PM

ehhe, find out why we cant change the glow color, and youll have it

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Post by: shockwaves on September 24, 2002, 05:21:32 PM

Excellent :D

*gets to work*

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Post by: Bozco on September 24, 2002, 05:39:39 PM

Tsk tsk, the real glowers will know you cheated your way to it. :p

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Post by: shockwaves on September 24, 2002, 06:12:45 PM

:)

Well, I have found this pretty hard to figure out without having a vb to personally experiement on, but try changing this:



to this:



This is the code used by someone who I know has this working:

                  $post[firstnewinsert]

$post[username]$post[search]

                  $post[avatar]

Basically, they are just using the table form, which should make no difference, and their fields have different numbers.

Actually, when I tried it that way, it even changed the way I viewed the glow in just a normal html file.  If it changes the same way on here, you might want to increase the strength of the glow a bit.

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Post by: Darth Joyda on September 25, 2002, 01:02:40 AM

Now that I found some neat additions, I have no hurries to reach 5000 posts . My username is good as it is ;)

Samwise, your colour-combination is beautiful :)

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Post by: mm on September 25, 2002, 03:08:21 AM

welp, it wont work no matter what

im just gonna set it as white for now, cause red looks fugly

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Post by: Kurt Angle on September 25, 2002, 04:23:17 AM

Most of the people who have activated glow have lost their names on my computer, all I see is black. That includes Dajo, Samwise,mm and probably others.

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Post by: Bozco on September 25, 2002, 07:50:15 AM

Thats because their name is in black and the glow doesn\'t work for you so you just see nothing.

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Post by: Samwise on September 25, 2002, 08:23:23 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Darth Joyda
Samwise, your colour-combination is beautiful :)

Why thank you old fella.

I see other people have imitated my black username... they\'ll surely burn in hell.

But now mm says he changed the glow to white? And I can\'t see the glow at home... so basically I have no idea what it looks like now. :(

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Post by: mm on September 25, 2002, 08:25:38 AM

welp, i think im just gonna remove the code untill we get it resolved

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Post by: shockwaves on September 25, 2002, 11:12:28 AM

meh, I tried.  If you are interested in the place I was looking for information, it was here: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39289&perpage=15&display=&pagenumber=4

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Post by: Mr. Kennedy on September 25, 2002, 12:37:39 PM

argg.. it\'s gone again...

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Post by: kopking on September 25, 2002, 01:15:56 PM

yeah mine was glowing red, cant see it now...... is this the same for everyone??

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Post by: Kurt Angle on September 25, 2002, 01:24:02 PM

Yours looks blue to me kopking!