Creating [spoiler] tags for the forum

Post by **Gambit37** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:10 pm

This thread was created by splitting replies from this thread: http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/vie ... hp?t=23869

Your spoily highlight thing doesn't work if one has chosen a different skin... I can read the text straight away on the codexDark and subSilver skins.

Toni Y · Post by **Toni Y** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:32 pm

Well, it's better than nothing, and you need to explicitly do something for it to fail... So by default it works.

Post by **Gambit37** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:56 pm

Good point!

I'll have a look at adding a

Spoiler

tag to the BBcode options which picks up the styling from the skin. Shouldn't be too tricky.

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:04 pm

That's a great idea Gambit! This could also be very helpful if someone gets stuck in a custom dungeon (read: Conflux II). A player might search older threads to see if someone else came up with the same question, and if the hints/answers have this spoiler tag, there is no danger of reading something one shouldn't. That sort of reminds me of the old hintbooks for the Infocom text-adventures, anyone remember them?

EDIT: The more I think about it, the more I like it. In fact, this could lead to some sort of "official hintbook" for any custom dungeon. Whenever a player has a question, it can be added to the hintbook, and the author or somebody else can pose several hints with the spoiler tag, with the hints becoming more and more explicit. The author of the dungeon could also add some "wrong" questions as red herrings, so that players hopefully only read the questions they personally have. I think this could be great, especially since it would be sort of a growing project that expands as more and more players have more and more questions. What does everyone else think of this idea?

Post by **Zyx** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:53 pm

I saw on other fora a system where text zones inside a post are collapsed, and you can expand them at will by clicking on a plus sign. I guess it's not possible here?

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:00 pm

certainly would be nice.. then you could open the thread and then have blocks of text you could choose to read or not..

I think that's a major overhaul though.. I doubt if it's as simple as a adding a file or what have you..

moo

sucinum · Post by **sucinum** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:33 pm

adding new bbcodes is quite doable, i added h1-h5 in a board after reading how to add [center]. if you can add one, you can add 100s and the spoiler-box would only need some background=text-color setting, so you have to mark the text with the mouse to read it. that's afaik the simplest solution.

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Fri May 06, 2005 3:05 am

Just digging up this thread as I am curious if adding such spoiler tags can be done without too much effort? I still think this would be a great idea, and if it is possible, I would like to work on a "hintbook" for DM and possibly CSB.

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri May 06, 2005 10:34 am

It's straightforward, I simply haven't had the time since I moved house. I'll look at it soon though.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:37 pm

*bump*

Florent · Post by **Florent** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 3:06 pm

Hey have a look at this : https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/m ... on=firefox
I don't really see it picking up too well though... How do you force IE users to use

Spoiler

tags if they don't get the benefit ? This stuff should be integrated to the forum script. Could be a nice idea to submit a request to the phpBB development team, if it hasn't already been done.