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Jan 23, 1999, 12:26am

It would be nice when someone places a url in the chatbox that it comes out
to a link to that page..its to hard to copy when everyone is talking...its
almost impossible

It would help alot!

AP

Jan 24, 1999, 8:46pm

AP, that is a GREAT idea....when a URL is typed into the chatbox it sould
automatically turn blue and become a clickable link to the web site.
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Jan 25, 1999, 1:40pm

why blue, whispers are already blue. I think green looks better :-)

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Jan 26, 1999, 11:06am

How about purple??? It hasn't been used yet.

[View Quote] > why blue, whispers are already blue. I think green looks better :-)
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Jan 26, 1999, 5:43pm

naww - make it white. That would make the "whisper" really silent - even the addresse wouldn't hear it :)

[View Quote] > How about purple??? It hasn't been used yet.
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Jan 26, 1999, 6:57pm

Idiots. Make the colors CUSTOMIZABLE. Duh. I hate programmers who force-feed THEIR idea of "design" down everyone else's throat...

[View Quote] > naww - make it white. That would make the "whisper" really silent - even the addresse wouldn't hear it :)
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Jan 27, 1999, 1:44pm

Let's make it customizable wheter you want or don't want to have things
customable.

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Jan 28, 1999, 8:43pm

Fine, you can be spoonfed all the defaults and live with the programmer's narrowmindedness. Enjoy.

[View Quote] > Let's make it customizable wheter you want or don't want to have things
> customable.
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Jan 29, 1999, 12:27am

all you clods....my point was to make any URL, typed into the chatbox, be a
clickable link....i don't give a shit what color it is
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Jan 29, 1999, 12:38am

No shit, Sherlock. It's been on The List™ for over a year...it might just get implemented some century, too.

[View Quote] > all you clods....my point was to make any URL, typed into the chatbox, be a
> clickable link....i don't give a shit what color it is

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Jan 29, 1999, 12:44am

well Mr Old Man on AW...i just reciently have been reading the
newsgroups...sorry i haven't been reading the groups from the stone age like
you



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Jan 29, 1999, 1:02am

Psha, I've only been in AW for around a year and a half, newbie. I only mentioned about your suggestion being on The List™ because of how you responded to those of us discussing color. Duh. Wanna buy a clue? Only fifty dollah US. Act now while supplies last!

[View Quote] > well Mr Old Man on AW...i just reciently have been reading the
> newsgroups...sorry i haven't been reading the groups from the stone age like
> you
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Jan 29, 1999, 7:36am

eep, what is the url for The List™ ?

BTW what is your citizen number again old timer?


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Jan 29, 1999, 6:31pm

Let's make it customizable wheter I want to or not.

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Jan 29, 1999, 6:32pm

[View Quote] > eep, what is the url for The List™ ?

There is none because it's not pubic. Roland's emailed it to me twice after I asked him, but he asked me not to distribute it. Ask him and he may let you see.

> BTW what is your citizen number again old timer?

Almost a couple thousand below 200,000.

Jan 29, 1999, 8:31pm

OH OK FINE YOU DO THAT SUPERCHAMP HAVE A NICE DAY DRIVE THROUGH TAH

[View Quote] > Let's make it customizable wheter I want to or not.
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Jan 29, 1999, 8:39pm

To tell you the truth, Eep- I don't like the way you have your website set up.
I never did like the pick-list at the top, and the ordering seems too
haphazard. Could you add a "Search" function to make it easier to find what
we're looking for? Or better yet, can you make the entire format configurable
so we can use it with different kinds of index frames??

grover

[View Quote] > OH OK FINE YOU DO THAT SUPERCHAMP HAVE A NICE DAY DRIVE THROUGH TAH
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Jan 29, 1999, 9:09pm

[View Quote] > To tell you the truth, Eep- I don't like the way you have your website set up.

Gee, you actually USE my site? <gasp>

> I never did like the pick-list at the top, and the ordering seems too haphazard.

The order is just how I thought people would want to approach RWXing:

- introduction: introduce the site and what RWXing is all about (duh)
- news/updates: current info and changes to the site. (This used to be on the main page, if you recall, and a lot of sites tend to do this—with no intro, I might add—and is annoying; although I suppose now that I only keep a month's worth of updates on the main news/updates page I could move that back onto the intro page, but...)
- files: for people to actually VISUALLY experiment with and understand the things I will explain more thoroughly later
- measurement, scale, and object manipulation: key in understanding how to begin designing objects and their relationship to their environment (in our case, Active Worlds)
- terms and script commands: the very heart of RWXing, and where the files will come in handy to see the different things explained here
- RWX: the actual structure of an RWX file (formatting, etc), and tips and tricks (for progressively advancing RWXers)
- avatars: usually a more complicated subject than "standard" RWX objects, I place these near the end because I don't have much experience with them, as I explain on the page...
- links: self-explanatory
- site index: uh...

What's haphazard about that? If you know a way to dynamically change the search list, and have it customizable for people (which might require the use of login scripts, cookies, etc--way too complicated for a simple site such as mine), feel free to send the code over. :)

> Could you add a "Search" function to make it easier to find what we're looking for?

Although I have no site-specific search, tnlc.com does have a domain search you can use at http://tnlc.com/cgi-bin/search. I suppose I could mention that on my site...it's linked to from the "file not found" page though...

> Or better yet, can you make the entire format configurable so we can use it with different kinds of index frames??

You can always use the text menu and turn off the frames from the main page. And what do you mean by different kinds of index frames? I have a terms design that had the terms in a vertical frame on the left, and the "explanation frame" on the right, but it never got implemented. Is that what you mean?

Jan 30, 1999, 2:50pm

Actually, I didn't mean this post as a specific attack on your website, but more as an example. Before angrily replying to me, please put yourself in Roland's shoes- it takes just as much (if not More) effort for him to "customize" aw as it would take you to customize your web site. I just wanted to demonstrate to you what you were
asking, in a context you'd take personally.

[View Quote] [View Quote] Yes, I occasionally do because it IS a decent site with a lot of content, and even I forget some syntax. More often, I just look to see what you're talking about when you're constantly referencing your site to problems on which I didn't recall it applying to... But I do refer a Lot of people to your site when they've got specific
questions. (I especially like your .seq section, hehehehe).


>
>
>
> The order is just how I thought people would want to approach RWXing:
>
> <snip>
>
> What's haphazard about that? If you know a way to dynamically change the search list, and have it customizable for people (which might require the use of login scripts, cookies, etc--way too complicated for a simple site such as mine), feel free to send the code over. :)

The basic information is organized adequately, I suppose. But trying to find an anwser to a specific question is often difficult: not everyone approaches a problem like you do, and (imho) you place undo emphisis on some things, and place others in odd categories. But this isn't wrong, just not the way I would have handled it.

You're intimately familiar with the site and so can just rattle off an html#suchandsuch when looking for a specific answer. Few others can find things that easily. (And that search link didn't work, btw- shoulda been http://tnlc.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi ) Thanks for that search link, btw!

grover

Jan 30, 1999, 6:17pm

Let's make that customizable, too. Keep up the flexibility.

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Jan 30, 1999, 7:36pm

Can your DEATH be customizable too? I can think up MANY ways to kill you. :)

[View Quote] > Let's make that customizable, too. Keep up the flexibility.
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Jan 30, 1999, 7:46pm

[View Quote] > Actually, I didn't mean this post as a specific attack on your website, but more as an example. Before angrily replying to me, please put yourself in Roland's shoes- it takes just as much (if not More) effort for him to "customize" aw as it would take you to customize your web site. I just wanted to demonstrate to you what you were
> asking, in a context you'd take personally.

Um, I don't have a problem with adding more customization to my small, measly website that, in relation to many more LARGER websites, less people use. However, because I don't have the knowledge to do that, and besides the fact that it would be impractical considering even most of the larger, more popular websites don't provide such customization, your point is a tad moot.

However, because AW is a Windows application, and Windows already allows color customization, and these colors affect AW's GUI colors, AW's forced text colors can cause problems. Either AW allows more color customization or it doesn't allow ANY. AW's Tooltips don't use Windows' colors (AW's are still that puke-yellow), for example, which is another inconsistency.

[View Quote] Well how would YOU have "handled" it, then? I'm open to comments, improvements, suggestions, etc about my site (I even explicitly say so on the intro page). Anything to make learning RWXing easier will I entertain the thought of.

> You're intimately familiar with the site and so can just rattle off an html#suchandsuch when looking for a specific answer. Few others can find things that easily. (And that search link didn't work, btw- shoulda been http://tnlc.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi ) Thanks for that search link, btw!

Yes, I realized that after sending the message. However, the "file not found" page that should've displayed has the link to it there, so... :)

Jan 30, 1999, 8:45pm

Sure, why not. But once it is implemented, you will have a hard time
debugging it.

btw, try to kill yourself first. You won't be put in prison or sentenced to
death for it.

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Jan 30, 1999, 9:22pm

[View Quote] Ok let's exchange them.
I know a lot of ways too.
Come to A'mart and visit my geno-sui-homo-cide-FAQ-shop!!!

Litlle example of 'extra security'
Drink 3 gallons of dissolved rat-poison. Then jump into a 300ft deep
snake-pit and then while falling use a shotgun to hit the bag filled with
nitroglycerine that you put in your mouth just before you jumped.
Make sure the bottom of the pit is made of glass so you'll fall right
through it into the ice-cold shark-pool that will be put under 220V 2minutes
after you jump.

Just joking ;-)

P.S.: View the complete Suicide FAQ at the Humor-section of my homepage (the
url is in my sig).

--
Cubic
ICQ - 18557607
cubic at mediaport.org
http://welcome.to/cubic

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Jan 31, 1999, 1:57pm

[View Quote] That is : if you succeed. So be sure to read the suicide FAQ on my humor
page.
Cuz if you fail killing yourself you usually *do* get to go to prison for
it.
--
Cubic
ICQ - 18557607
cubic at mediaport.org
http://welcome.to/cubic

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