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The Ur-Quan Masters Re-Release => Starbase Café => Topic started by: jaychant on November 12, 2008, 09:24:02 pm



Title: Not sure what it means
Post by: jaychant on November 12, 2008, 09:24:02 pm
Code:
[glow=red,2,300]

I don't get what the numbers mean. (2 and 300)


Title: Re: Not sure what it means
Post by: RTyp06 on November 12, 2008, 10:56:11 pm
Where does this code come from? If it's a homemade function it's impossible to tell without the function code itself.


Title: Re: Not sure what it means
Post by: Lukipela on November 13, 2008, 06:07:06 am
Where does this code come from? If it's a homemade function it's impossible to tell without the function code itself.

It's the BBC for making glowing text.

Testing

1,300
2,300
3,300

2,100
2,500
2,900

EDIT: Well the 1,2,3 seems to be intensity (thickness of glow for lack of better term). No idea about the hundreds, appears to be no difference on IE.

EDIT 2: Well, about 5 seconds of googling "BBC code glow" gives me this

Quote
Glow
[.glow=red,2,50]glow[/glow]
glow
The three attributes (eg red, 2, 50) in the 'glow' tag are color, strength and width respectively.


Hope that helps


Title: Re: Not sure what it means
Post by: Cattrance on November 13, 2008, 10:33:39 am
bbzzz
        zz
          zz                    zzz Its so beautiffuullll *ZAP*
            zz            zzz
               zzzzzzz     


Title: Re: Not sure what it means
Post by: Elvish Pillager on November 13, 2008, 12:29:14 pm
bbzzz                                                                               
        zz                                                                             
          zz                    zzz Its so beautiffuullll *ZAP*   
            zz            zzz                                                       
               zzzzzzz                                                             
Fixed. 8)


Title: Re: Not sure what it means
Post by: Megagun on November 17, 2008, 03:29:49 pm
Remember, kids, the glow tag in combination with the color tag is only readable on Internet Explorer (fail!) or textbased browsers (yay)..


Title: Re: Not sure what it means
Post by: Lukipela on November 17, 2008, 04:09:00 pm
Remember, kids, the glow tag in combination with the color tag is only readable on Internet Explorer (fail!) or textbased browsers (yay)..

Unless you perform the highly technical operation known as "marking (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/rtnlhelp/v6r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.lpex.doc.user/tasks/tlmarkt.htm)". Presto, you can see!

On a side note, I still don't know what the width is supposed to do. It obviously does nothing in FireFox, but it doesn't seem to do anything in IE either.



Title: Re: Not sure what it means
Post by: Resh Aleph on November 17, 2008, 06:16:51 pm
Presto, you can see!

Nice double meaning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_(layout_engine)) there. :P


Title: Re: Not sure what it means
Post by: Lukipela on November 24, 2008, 10:56:39 am
Or is it a double entendre?