New forum function: TABLES!

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I found this while tweaking Rolling Start and it was instantaneously obvious that it would be useful here as well.

There is now available a new BBCode tag: Table. With it you can create a simple table that's still highly effective in keeping those high-score threads nice and orderly. Here's an example:

[table]R=# & Name & Score & Ship & Version
R=01 & Player 4 & 15,616,000 & Red & MAME
R=02 & Player 3 & 14,988,500 & Blue & 360
R=03 & Player 1 & 14,550,200 & Red & PCB
R=04 & Player 2 & 13,620,900 & Green & 360[/table]

Also great is the fact that you can use all the standard text tools within the table: font colors, bolding, italics, even weblinks. These can make a table be far more useful and pleasing to the eye than the tables created with the Code tag.

Speaking of, the Table tag's code looks like this:

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[table]
R=# & Name & Score & Ship & Version
R=01 & Player 4 & 15,616,000 & Red & MAME
R=02 & Player 3 & 14,988,500 & Blue & 360
R=03 & Player 1 & 14,550,200 & Red & PCB
R=04 & Player 2 & 13,620,900 & Green & 360
[/table]
"R=" starts a new row and "&" starts a new column. That's all there is to it. The first row of any table is automatically colored differently. The apostrophe, brackets and parenthesis break the code, so just work around those.

You can't change the table's size, text alignment or the background colors, they're hardcoded in. I can adjust them but it will affect every table created, so let's try to find a good consensus if we do want to change them.
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this is the best thing to ever happen to the internet
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Nana wrote:this is the best thing to ever happen to the internet
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trap15 wrote:
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emphatic wrote:
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Nana wrote:this is the best thing to ever happen to the internet
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CaptainRansom wrote:
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trap15 wrote:this is the best thing to ever happen to the internet
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z0mbie90 wrote:
CaptainRansom wrote:
emphatic wrote:this is the best thing to ever happen to the internet
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I've applied this to the RFJ table
I've noticed you can't use standard brackets/parenthesis and if you use 2 words in single column on the first row, then you have to use 2 spaces to make it into a single space.
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Looks a lot cleaner, but do you think we're going to have to change score submission format so C&P is easier for the scoreboard keepers?
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The grey and white hurts my eyes!
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SuperSoaker360 wrote:
z0mbie90 wrote:
CaptainRansom wrote:this is the best thing to ever happen to the internet
I do suggest making some slight changes to the background colors to match the forum design which ive always thought is really good. We should try and find a really good choice of colors to make it look as good as possible while allowing a good range of text font colors to work with it!
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cool, now i just need monospace. shrinemaiden used to have this awesome
  • (?) tag that just put everything in monospace and let me use whatever other tags i wanted, it was amazing. i hope i can reproduce something like that with this now
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Smraedis wrote:I've noticed you can't use standard brackets/parenthesis and if you use 2 words in single column on the first row, then you have to use 2 spaces to make it into a single space.
Right you are, I didn't notice that. I've edited the first post to include the troublesome characters.
RNGmaster wrote:Looks a lot cleaner, but do you think we're going to have to change score submission format so C&P is easier for the scoreboard keepers?
I think that's really up to the individual scoreboard keepers themselves. Some will want to have the R='s and &'s ready in place, others won't mind editing them in themselves. It's up to each keeper on how they want their score submissions.
chum wrote:The grey and white hurts my eyes!
PROMETHEUS wrote:I do suggest making some slight changes to the background colors to match the forum design which ive always thought is really good. We should try and find a really good choice of colors to make it look as good as possible while allowing a good range of text font colors to work with it!
I did use one of the forum's colors for the first row background color, but since it's not a gradient it might not be obvious. Sorry about your hurting eyes chum, what would be better? Should it be darker grey or some totally different color?
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Darker grey, and darker blue to fit the half-transparent forum colour would fit well methinks.
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now all we need is the ability to plot data in 3D.

im sure that will help someone out there explain guwange to me a bit better.
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I adjusted the colors a bit.

It used to be this:
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And now it's this:

[table]R=# & Name & Score & Ship & Version
R=01 & Player 4 & 15,616,000 & Red & MAME
R=02 & Player 3 & 14,988,500 & Blue & 360
R=03 & Player 1 & 14,550,200 & Red & PCB
R=04 & Player 2 & 13,620,900 & Green & 360[/table]

How's that?
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Way better imo.
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Great job with this. The new colors and spacing are a lot better.
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szycag wrote:Great job with this. The new colors and spacing are a lot better.
The spacing hasn't been touched, the table automatically resizes itself to the available area.
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Ghegs wrote: How's that?
Way better. Good work on this :)
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These seem better, I agree. But I have grown accustomed to the green font we use. It's almost like some nicknames of high-scoring members are printed in green on my retina. :)
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DMC wrote:These seem better, I agree. But I have grown accustomed to the green font we use. It's almost like some nicknames of high-scoring members are printed in green on my retina. :)
Well, nobody's forcing anyone to use this table. And it's possible to change the font color inside the table to that same green if you want to. ;)
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DMC wrote:These seem better, I agree. But I have grown accustomed to the green font we use. It's almost like some nicknames of high-scoring members are printed in green on my retina. :)
screen burn? ;)
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Cool, that does look better :)
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moh wrote:
DMC wrote:These seem better, I agree. But I have grown accustomed to the green font we use. It's almost like some nicknames of high-scoring members are printed in green on my retina. :)
screen burn? ;)
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Looks very nice!
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Ed Oscuro wrote:[table]R=Name & Comment
R=01 & Nana & this is the best thing to ever happen to the internet
R=02 & trap15 &
Nana wrote:this is the best thing to ever happen to the internet
R=03 & emphatic &
trap15 wrote:
Nana wrote:this is the best thing to ever happen to the internet
R=04 & CaptainRansom &
emphatic wrote:
trap15 wrote:this is the best thing to ever happen to the internet
R=05 & z0mbie90 &
CaptainRansom wrote:
emphatic wrote:this is the best thing to ever happen to the internet
R=06 & SuperSoaker360 &
z0mbie90 wrote:
CaptainRansom wrote:this is the best thing to ever happen to the internet
R=07 & Bananamatic & Image
R=08 & Annoyboy & Looks very nice!
R=-9 & Scout & Need a DISPENSER here[/table]
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Just look at the awesomeness MMM did:

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=151
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