[done] Differentiate Join/leave server message color ?

[Orpel]

Cheers happy racers !

Would anyone know how I could get the messages for Joining and Leaving to have a different color, to make it more obvious without 'reading' ?

From the GUI, the color option is the same for both...

Also, can a specific login be associated with a specific message text color (or can you create groups beside admins and have a setting for it in GUI ?)

Cheers

[jaga01]

Config settings > Chat messages > Join/Leave messages

[oliverde8]

Config settings > Chat messages > Join/Leave messages

I think he means to changing the color of each of the messages separately. red for leave & green for join for example.

Which at the moment is not possible

[jaga01]

Config settings > Chat messages > Join/Leave messages

I think he means to changing the color of each of the messages separately. red for leave & green for join for example.

Which at the moment is not possible

true.. my bad

[Orpel]

true.. my bad

Don't hurt yourself too much, it is nice you replied anyway, and it shows you must be as fast a rider than a reader

Which at the moment is not possible

Which makes me wonder:
- Where is the color value given by GUI stored for the 'Join/leave msg' ?
- Where/when is the color of that string retreived to print the 'Join/leave msg' ?
- Where is the chat text color retreived to print a player chat msg ?
Knowing that could help me hardcode the file(s) to my fitting... and get closer
to understand how to modify GUI and file(s) for more lasting options.

Cheers

[reaby]

Which makes me wonder:
- Where is the color value given by GUI stored for the 'Join/leave msg' ?
- Where/when is the color of that string retreived to print the 'Join/leave msg' ?
- Where is the chat text color retreived to print a player chat msg ?

Well... To answer this, maybe I should open little how the config system under the hood works:

Our ingame configurator values are recieved from Config-classes of the plugins...
at Metadata you create the configurator default values, and define the variable types and
also the place where you would like to see the variable at configurator. Configurator has then types for colorcodes, strings, lists, booleans etc.. so it knows to draw right type of setting changer and save the variables right.

The variables you define later are stored as serialized objects at \config\eXp\settings.exp and settings_servername.exp files depending the scope of variable type.. Thera can be global (if you run multiple servers with same exp installation) and local types.

To answer your question, by the default those color codes are stored at Core-plugin:
1. Core\Config::$colors_* && Core\Metadata

Ok, so the string then: We have full multilingual support, so...
2. somewhere at the plugin there should be eXpGetMessage(), this loads the default english message of the string.
The messages for other languages are stored at \pluginpath\messages\*.txt, where * = 2-letter code of language.

3. colorcodes are processed automatically with eXpChatSendServerMessage(). But you can use $this->colorParser at plugins and ColorParser::getInstance() at gui or other classes to register, deregister or parse colors.

I'll try to find time today to apply your wish. Easiest and propably best would be just add leave messages value at Core\Config::$colors_, add entry at metadata and edit the messages strings...

Knowing that could help me hardcode the file(s) to my fitting... and get closer
to understand how to modify GUI and file(s) for more lasting options.

*edit*
and a fix is available

[Orpel]

Thanks for the fix, it has been installed and works perfect

Is there some type of 'diff' I can check to see which files changed,
and where, to understand better your full powered eXplanations !

I could test adding gui input to some hardcoded colors for the cplive plugin...