Colour OPs nicks in main chat.

XP2 · Post by **XP2** » 2004-02-19 18:19

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".

TheParanoidOne · Post by **TheParanoidOne** » 2004-02-19 18:33

It's in the Rejected Features Tracker.

[ 657795 ] Different colors in chat (like for own nick)

Post by **GargoyleMT** » 2004-02-21 12:22

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.)

cyberal · Post by **cyberal** » 2004-02-21 22:44

then how about doing it the IRC-way?

attach a @ to the front of OPs nicks!

ivulfusbar · Post by **ivulfusbar** » 2004-02-22 03:12

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.

cyberal · Post by **cyberal** » 2004-02-22 12:27

no its not.. at least not in this thread... it accomplishes exactly what the thread starter wants.. a differentiation between normal users and OPs!

Post by **GargoyleMT** » 2004-02-22 22:40

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 ;))

Twink · Post by **Twink** » 2004-02-22 23:27

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.

Sedulus · Post by **Sedulus** » 2004-02-23 07:02

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

http://wza.digitalbrains.com/DC/BCDCpp/ ... o+.tar.bz2

ivulfusbar · Post by **ivulfusbar** » 2004-02-23 09:08

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.

Sedulus · Post by **Sedulus** » 2004-02-23 11:45

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 =)

Post by **GargoyleMT** » 2004-02-28 12:48

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. =)