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* billywoods1 exempts himself from commenting about the yet again stolen idea

Patchou, random fade is very difficult, it never looks good... there are more dark colours than light colours.

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Originally posted by billywoods1
* billywoods1 exempts himself from commenting about the yet again stolen idea


Patchou, random fade is very difficult, it never looks good... there are more dark colours than light colours.

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stolen idea?

actually i did a little vb proggy a few years ago for vbb message boards that did the same thing and when i saw the plugin support i thought i'd do the same thing

all the code is mine, so care to tell me who i have stolen anything from ?

Read that again.

Stolen IDEA.

I've been developing Gradier for ages now and about half this board would testify for that.

Edit: and anyway, I had a VBulletin board admin asking if he could use my gradient code which I have on my forum... so it sounds suspiciously to me like they DON'T have it...

never mind, i dont think he heard from the gradier
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I didnt say it was server side for VBB, it was a small VB program that you entered text into, chose colours, and then could copy and paste into a message

it was never fully released but only distributed to a select few people.

I had never heard of gradier until Misterjad sent me a PM asking to join the team, I politefully declined and gave him my reasons, and partially on his request i pasted the source here.

also as far as i understand it gradier is a seperate program, and not a plugin, if your trying to claim that you came up with the idea for text with colour gradients then i would have to disgaree as they have been around at least since the early text mode BBS's that i used to dial up with my modem to..

anyway i dont see why there should be any arguments here, i simply created a little plugin for my own use and then posted it here (i joined yesterday and had never been on here before then) just in case it may be of use to anyone else

As requested for :- a new version

this will probably be a final version unless someone gives me a reason to continue work on it, or requests an interesting to implement feature

new features

when specifying a colour code, you can use a ? mark to replace that digit with a random value

eg

/xfade ??0000 00??00 some text

will select a random red colour and fade to a random blue colour

you can also replace a colour with "*" as a shortcut to doing ?????? eg

/xfade * 000000 some text

will fade between a random colour and black

a new alias /xrfade some text is simply a shortcut to /xfade * * some text (eg it always fades between 2 random colours)


also instead of typing a colour in hex the following colours are now supported as words

red
black
blue
green
white
grey
cyan
yellow
purple

eg you can do

/xfade red green some text

helpful if i include the zip...

Edit :updated the zip to include a readme on how to use it for anyone who wants to stick it on their website (seeing as several people have asked to)

Edit2: latest version now updated in first post..

thanks

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Originally posted by Finn
As requested for :- a new version

this will probably be a final version unless someone gives me a reason to continue work on it, or requests an interesting to implement feature

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well maybe ... you could look if you could get the emoticons to work on it, it doesn't seem to work if i use /xfade ( i like it )
example:

x/fade red blue testing this plugin doesn't show the emoticon but  : D

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Originally posted by Simple me

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Originally posted by Finn
As requested for :- a new version

this will probably be a final version unless someone gives me a reason to continue work on it, or requests an interesting to implement feature

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well maybe ... you could look if you could get the emoticons to work on it, it doesn't seem to work if i use /xfade ( i like it )
example:

x/fade red blue testing this plugin doesn't show the emoticon but  : D

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yup i know about this one, the problem is it inserts a colour code between each letter of the smiley, so stopping the smiley displaying, they only way i could detect this is scanning for all the default smileys and not inserting colour codes in them..

but then it wouldnt work for user defined smileys either which i have no way of scanning for so that wouldnt work... its not a major restriction anyway i think..