Colour OPs nicks in main chat.

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Colour OPs nicks in main chat.

Post by XP2 » 2004-02-19 23:19

How about an option to show the <NICK> portion for OPs in main chat as a differnt colour ?

<OPsNick> This for ops
<UserNick> Normal for users

the colour could be hardcoded or set as a user option. This will allow users to notice the ops chat and therefore not say they didnt see it in a sea of all "normal" coloured text.

If not just the <Nick> tag then the whole line could be "highlighted".

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Post by TheParanoidOne » 2004-02-19 23:33

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Post by GargoyleMT » 2004-02-21 17:22

I don't think DC++ will ever change over from a plain text edit box to one that's capable of coloring. (which isn't said in the comments for that rejected feature.)

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Post by cyberal » 2004-02-22 03:44

then how about doing it the IRC-way?

attach a @ to the front of OPs nicks!
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Post by ivulfusbar » 2004-02-22 08:12

This is at Protocol-level in the IRC-protcol and not on the UI-level. Adding it on the UI-level whitout restricting the protocol-level is uninteresting.
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Post by cyberal » 2004-02-22 17:27

no its not.. at least not in this thread... it accomplishes exactly what the thread starter wants.. a differentiation between normal users and OPs!
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Post by GargoyleMT » 2004-02-23 03:40

cyberal wrote:then how about doing it the IRC-way? attach a @ to the front of OPs nicks!


I think someone could do this with a bit of lua in BCDC ;))

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Post by Twink » 2004-02-23 04:27

GargoyleMT wrote:
cyberal wrote:then how about doing it the IRC-way? attach a @ to the front of OPs nicks!


I think someone could do this with a bit of lua in BCDC ;))


could also do the color thing with bcdc.

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Post by Sedulus » 2004-02-23 12:02

GargoyleMT wrote:I think someone could do this with a bit of lua in BCDC ;))

http://wza.digitalbrains.com/DC/BCDCpp/ ... o+.tar.bz2
http://dc.selwerd.nl/hublist.xml.bz2
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Post by ivulfusbar » 2004-02-23 14:08

so what will people do with people who call themself @ivulfusbar but is not an operator? Remove the @ in the chat-displaying? Sure you can if you want. Its like stripping out the [isp]-part of nicknames in some mods.
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Post by Sedulus » 2004-02-23 16:45

1. use @<ivulfusbar> instead of <@ivulfusbar> (which incidentally also doesn't conflict with the way onContextMenu works)
2. block @'s in names
3. use colors like suggested above =)
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Post by GargoyleMT » 2004-02-28 17:48

Sedulus wrote:3. use colors like suggested above =)


Those look very nice... I realize that oDC, et. al. let you change colors on the fly, but I like the lua approach better. =)

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