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Draheid
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09-09-2001

Friday, February 13, 2004 - 5:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Draheid a private message Print Post    
Originally Posted by Gail on Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 04:45 pm

formatting lessons:

Lesson 1:

To post with colored letters you type:

\red{Hello!}

and that will give you:

Hello!

To get color that is bold type:

\b{\red{Hello!}}

and that will give you:

Hello!

To change size you can go up one and type:

\1{\b{\red{Hello!}}}

and that will look like:

Hello!

If you really want to make a spashy statement you can go to the largest size and type:

\2{\b{\red{Hello!!}}}

and it looks like:

Hello!

To center your message you type:

\c{\2{\b{\red{Hello!}}}}

and that comes out as:

Hello!


It is also possible to use smaller font by using the \-2{smallest size}}

which looks like this:

smallest size

There are a couple of things to note. For every bracket like this ---> { you have throughout the beginning of your code (before your message) you need an equal number of these ---> } piled together at the end of your message. If you don’t have the same number of {{ and }} it won’t work.

If you use (( instead of {{ in error--it won’t work either.

There are several colors from which to chose: red, green, blue, cyan, purple, orange, yellow, white, black and gray. The yellow, white and grey are very hard for some people to see but they are available.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, February 13, 2004 - 5:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Draheid a private message Print Post    
Originally posted by Gail on Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 04:45 pm


Lesson 2:

Available clipart can be found at the top of the page under clipart. General directions for posting a particular clipart would be to type: \clipart{smile}

That would show up as:

There are many images from which to choose and all are posted using the same method.

If you want to center a string of clipart to make a border you can just type out one or a sequence of two or three and then copy and paste a few times. For instance:
\c{\clipart{smile}\clipart{starb}\clipart{smile}\clipart{starb}}

would look like:



It’s nice to finish things off by adding another smile at the end to make the pattern symetric if you wish. That would look like this:



When you find a border you really like and it’s fairly complicated the easiest thing to do is copy and paste to a document on your hard drive. Then you have it already done for future use. You do need to make sure you don’t string too many cliparts together or they will wrap around to the next line and not give you the effect you are after.

It’s also useful preview your posts when doing complicated formatting to be sure there are no errors. It saves a lot of headaches. Feel free to practice in the spam room. Above all, HAVE FUN!!

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, February 13, 2004 - 5:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Draheid a private message Print Post    
Originall posted by Tess on Saturday, June 15, 2002 - 03:17 pm


Lesson 3:

Posting images:

The current size limit for posting images is 40k. This capability will likely be turned off during BB to due to the sheer number of posts on the board, but most of the rest of the year we do have the capability and space to accomodate gifs and jpegs. Your image must be in one of those 2 formats already downloaded on your hard drive before you try to post it on the board.

The code for posting an image, whether it's an animated clipart or photograph is: \image{name of your image here}

For instance if you want to post a picture of welcome butterfly and you have that on your hard drive you type: \image{butterfly} and then hit preview\post.

You will be brought to a screen that will give you a preview of your post with a box that looks like this: . Don't panic! Hit the button that says "Post this message." That will bring you to the next screen titled "Image/attachment Upload Form."

You will see a message that says: Provide file for 'whatever title you gave to your image'. In the above example, it would say, "Provide image for butterfly". Under that will be a blank box. Next to the blank box is a button which says browse. Hit the browse button and select your image from your hard drive.

Then hit the button under the box which says Upload and voila! You will then have successfully posted an image.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, February 13, 2004 - 5:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Draheid a private message Print Post    
Originally posted by Gail on Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 04:52 pm


Lesson 4:

To post a clickable link the first thing you need is the url of the spot you want people to find. You can just copy and paste the url right into your formatting. For instance, if I want to provide a link to the Spam Room for TVCH members to practice their formattdzs22C I would type and paste the following:

\link{https://tvclubhouse.com/forum/forumcgi-bin/forum/board-auth.cgi?lm=1076477837&file=/6402/6403.html, Spam room}

That will look like this: Spam Room

The first thing after your { is the URL of the site or place on the board for which you need the link. After the url there is a comma and after the comma you need a description of the link.

The next person who comes along would only need to click on the words “Spam Room” to reach that particular area.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, February 13, 2004 - 5:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Draheid a private message Print Post    
Originally posted by Halfunit on Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 06:28 pm

Gail,

I’m posting here because I know you will see it. Please feel free to remove if need be.

I have a question about uploading gifs and then getting a file lock. When that happens, the “Your Image Here” icon appears and then if I try to edit it, I can’t upload another pic - my only option is to change the post to text and try in another message.

Am I missing something?

Sorry to post this here, but I didn’t think it belonged in the tech area, nor did it warrant a personal e-mail... thanks!!!

Originally posted by Gail on Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 07:00 pm

Halfunit - I think in that case you’re kind of hosed. When that happens though - make a post that starts with Moderator and ask for the bad post to be deleted.

You wouldn’t believe how bad I botched posting the example above! I finally had to just move Tess’s post over instead.

The only thing I can suggest (and this probably doesn’t work) is go back and edit your post to delete the image upload, then after it posts, go back and edit it again and see if you can add the image again. I have no idea if that will work or not.

Originally posted by Flyonthwall on Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 10:41 pm

Screen caps how to’s:
(this is my way of doing it, it’s fast and easy after you get the hang of it. But there are other programs out there, you can read about in the tech help threads. Maybe someone will post here about those as well. I’ll post what I know best!)

Have real player
Have a paint program like Paint shop pro or Photoshop etc.

Open real player

Click on the real player and then on
TOOL PREFERENCES HARDWARE
In the hardware make sure the
“Use Optimized Video Display” button is UNCHECKED

<image lost - sorry>


Now click on Real player
(think of this as “selecting” real player from everything else open on your desk top)

Then press the ALT key and the F12 Key at the same time.
(this is a copy feature and will copy the real player screen)

Open or change over to your paint program.
Click on the paste button, or you may be able to right click on the paint area and paste.

You should now see your screen cap in your paint program.
NOTE:
If you have a black screen, you didn’t UNCHECK the view optimized video display button.
If you have your entire desktop with a tiny real player, you need to be sure you click on real player, like selecting it, then hit the alt+f12 keys.


Now in your paint program
Select the part of the Real player picture you want to save.
I use PSP7 I cut out the part I want to save,
click on copy, then hit paste again and the new cut out version is there.

Play with your own program to see what you need to do to get the best version of the screen cap you want.
Cutting off the “real player” frame.

Next you save it to your hard drive.
Be sure you save it as a JPEG file.
These are smaller files.

NOTE MORE ADVANCED:
At this time you can even compress the image, but most of the screen caps are around 13K or less, so there is really not much need if you don’t really know how! :-)

If you take a quad cam shot and all four cams are the same, or say two cams are the same picture:

You can again cut out the sections you want to keep, for your choice out of the four selections.
(you can save it and post it as is but it’s a smaller picture)
OR you can:
Paste them then resize them.
I have found that 300 is the best size set for the width. Height is set automatically.
(if not just adjust it out till it looks good)

After you’ve saved it you upload it like any other graphic.
Please please be sure to practice here or on the spam pages before you try this in the LFP area!!!
Make sure you have it down, or you’ll drive Ryn insane! LOL

Also limit your screen caps when posting as it uses a lot of bandwidth and causes the pages to load very slowly for those who are reading the LFP’s and have a dial up modem!
Thanks!

To post your image, go to the top of the page to the TVCH banner.
There click on FORMAT and it has a detailed description of how to post an image or graphic.
Use the \image {your screen cap here} command
(NO spaces!)
Read the instructions and watch your backslash \ and brackets { or your image won’t show up!

One last tip.
If you get a file lock error when loading your graphic or screen cap.
DON’T cancel!
Use your browsers back button, and it will ask you to reload the grapic from the upload page!

If you don’t use the back button on your browser then you’ll be left with an “image here” box in your post!

If you do have an image here box you can use the edit button on your post to go back and “remove” the tag line for the graphic.
Because once it’s posted you can’t reload it in that post, it has to be a new post.

Hope this helps and is easy to follow!
I’ve had many ask and used these same directions and they have learned how!

Be sure you practice first on the spam pages!!!
FLY

Originally posted by Flyonthwall on Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - 08:16 pm

Rolandcat, you can download versions of Paint shop pro and others at
CLICK HERE: Cnet.com

Do a search for paint programs or specific programs like Paint shop pro or PSP7 for short.

Good luck!
FLY

Originally posted by Flyonthwall on Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 09:38 am

Thought I’d add the link for the Paintshop Pro 7 download. Free to try but for full program and extas you have to buy it. I thinks it’s around $100....Best buy and Comp USA have them on sale around Christmas time generally.

It also includes an animation program so you can create animated graphics or words that change, such as the name graphics I made.
Very cool and easy to learn!

CLICK HERE for download page for Paintshop pro 7

With this download you have all working files but some of the extra files for different effects are not available until you buy the whole program.

I used PSP5 for a long long time on the trial version and didn’t need a lot of the extras. Basically because I didn’t know what to do with them! LOL

There are many tutorials on how to use PSP on the net and you can do a search for tutorials PSP and find many that will teach special graphic techniques.
Many filters also for free, these give special effects to your graphic. Search for filters or tube files. As you work with it you can learn a lot more about these special features!

Also photoshop is a good program too.
I have it but have found it has a lot of the same tools and effects as PSP. So I stick to that.

Micrographicx is a great program that was inexpensive and has lots of premade graphics.
It also comes with a animation program.
Premade layouts for greeting cards, business cards and many other usefull templates.

If you get one program and work with it, the next program from another creator will be easier because they all work basically the same way.

Best of luck! You have all winter to practice and be ready for BB4? LOL
FLY

Originally posted by Rissa on Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 03:36 pm

I have a question about links. How do I stop a long URL from widening the message screen? Is it simply a matter of hitting return in the middle of the URL? I always worry that the link won’t work then, so I just leave it and then feel guilty. RFLOL

Originally posted by Sia on Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 07:43 pm

That’s a great question, Rissa. I don’t know how to do it, either, unless the answer is to hit a carriage-return before putting the url in. That way the URL would be the first thing on a new line of type and might not be overly-long. Am I on the right track, anyone?

Originally posted by Draheid on Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 08:56 am

Rissa & Sia: 1st off, I’m sorry I didn’t see this sooner. I hope you’ve already gotten answers to this. In cas you haven’t here goes.

The trick is to give the link a ‘name’. When you use the \link or \topurl tags, be sure you put between the brackets both the link and a ‘name’ seperated by a comma like this:

\newurl{http:\www.websitewithalink.com_whatever.html,A link}

This would appear as: A link

If for some reason you have a problem with a link, sometimes you can leave a note for a moderator with the thread and approximate time of your post and they can go in and ‘clean it up’ for you. You should post this info in the ‘local’ Q& A section or in the Questions to Moderators located in the TV Clubhouse section.

Hope this helps.

Originally posted by March on Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 07:04 am

Gail, Thanks for posting these lessons. I have printed them off as I know I would never remember all this. Will try one of these days.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, February 13, 2004 - 7:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Draheid a private message Print Post    
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where ###### is the code you have selected above.


Halfunit
Moderator

09-02-2001

Saturday, May 20, 2006 - 11:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Halfunit a private message Print Post    
Originally Posted by Draheid on Saturday, May 20, 2006 - 08:03 am



This could be 'sort of' done by using the \tablebg{######,text here} tag. Not exactly the way it is supposed to be used (because you have to 'escape' the use of commas by putting a \ in front of them like this: \, to use them) but it might be what you're looking for? The ###### represents an rgb color as seen in the chart above.