Technical help needed

[Nigel]

Hi everyone,

I need some help with formatting postings, as I am currently running a little MTW based online game (http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=18;t=17790;st=0) over at the Jousting Field.

I can to the usual bold, italics and underline, but the things I am looking for is how to change text colour, font size and style etc. Shades Wolf has put this sort of thing into his post here (http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=27;t=18854;&#top). So I know that somehow it can be done, I just dont know how.


The most useful thing would be :

How can I link to certain postings in a thread ?
I know I can link to certain pages, but getting a link to home in on a certain post on a page would really be a great help for what I am doing.

Thanks for your help in advance,

Nigel

[Myrddraal]

and should work where < = [ to change text colour.

Remember, to check out how a person does something, just click Quote and see how they did it.

PS. Wrong forum

[Nigel]

Thanks Myrddraal,

Colour and size should help a bit.
Quoting peoples post is also a good tip. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-2thumbsup.gif
Doing this I found out that the beautiful old font ShadesWolf has used is not a forum supported font but a gif which he has linked in http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/flat.gif. So how do I make gifs with a transparent background ?

And still:
How can I link to certain postings in a thread ?

That would be most useful if it is possible.


P.S.
Which forum would this be posted best ?
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[Myrddraal]

Hm, don&#39;t know about linking to posts, but this forum is for mods in development. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-2thumbsup.gif

[Duke John]

Topic moved
The Alchemist Lab isn&#39;t the right forum either, but anyway, you can find most of the codehelp just below the white text entry when reply to a post. It&#39;s called: iB Code

Cheers, Duke John

[Nigel]

Thanks for moving this, Duke John.

I gotta play around a bit with this iB Code.
That sounds fun. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-smile.gif


SQL SELECT * FROM some_tbl [/QUOTE]
What is this SQL ? Does anyone know ? Thanks, Tonka, for explaining that one http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-smile.gif

Code Sample my &#036;code = &#39;true&#39;;[/QUOTE]
Well, I guess code is not easily learned http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

redgreenblueyelloworangemagentapurplegreybrownolive


Courier
Arial
Script size 7
Times New Roman
Roman size 7
Arioso size 7
Symbol abxdel ABXDEL
StarMath abcdefghijk ABCDEFGHIJK
StarBats abcdefghijk ABCDEFGHIJK

[TonkaToys]

Quote[/b] (Nigel @ June 03 2004,21:31)]Thanks for moving this, Duke John.

I gotta play around a bit with this iB Code.
That sounds fun. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-smile.gif


SQL SELECT * FROM some_tbl
What is this SQL ? Does anyone know ?[/QUOTE]
SQL is a Standard Query Language used to access databases.

For example let&#39;s say you are using Microsoft Access and you have a database table called ARMY to store your armies in. It might look like this:

ARMY: id, armyname, trooptype, size

It might contain these records:

1, English, Spear, 80
2, French, Sword, 60
3, HRE, Bow, 60
4, English, Sword, 100
5, English, Peasant, 120
6, HRE, Sword, 60

If you did Code Sample SELECT * FROM ARMY[/QUOTE] you would get the list as shown above.

If you did Code Sample SELECT * FROM ARMY WHERE armyname = &#34;English&#34;[/QUOTE] you would get the list as shown below.

1, English, Spear, 80
4, English, Sword, 100
5, English, Peasant, 120

If you did Code Sample SELECT armyname, trooptype FROM ARMY WHERE size= 60[/QUOTE] you would get the list as shown below.

French, Sword
HRE, Bow
HRE, Sword


Using all this for my MP Campaign, but don&#39;t know how it works on the Org.

Anyone still awake?
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