Making A FAQ pop-up in the browser at login

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Jul 15 2006, 9:50 am
I noticed alot of game have a FAQ or their rules pop up in the browser after people log in. How would I do this? Could you show me the code commands plz?
Jul 15 2006, 9:54 am
Look up browse in the reference. You just pass to it the text that you want it to put in the browser. If you want a popup window, read up on the second argument. Giving it a window value will make it come up in a new window.
mob/verb/page_test()
    src << browse("<html><head><title>This is the page test.</title></head><body>This is only a test.</body></html>", "window=PopupTest")
Jul 15 2006, 12:42 pm (Edited on Jul 15 2006, 2:01 pm)
In response to Loduwijk
ok i know html and stuff but what I dont know how to do is format it in BYOND. For example how would i get it to show:
1.follow rules
2.blah blah

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i tryed using the break command but it puts things too far appart
Jul 15 2006, 5:10 pm
In response to FriesOfDoom
I showed you an example that pops up a window that says some stuff; you just have to make some minor adaptations to it to make it show anything else. The first argument to browse is what you change to show different stuff.
mob/verb/popup_test()
    src << browse("Follow the rules!<br>1) Have fun.<br>2) Be nice.<br>3) Don't break the rules.", "window=rules")

To make doing html easy on you, you can also include constants for html opening and closing text, like the followin.
var/const
    html_open = "<html><head></head><body>"
    html_close = "</body></html>"

Then you can use them like so.
var/const
    rules = {"
Follow the rules!
1) Have fun.
2) Be nice.
3) Don't break the rules."}

mob/proc/show_rules()
    src << browse(html_open+rules+html_close, "window=rules")

mob/Login()
    ..()
    show_rules()
mob/admininstrator/verb/remind_everyone_of_the_rules()
    for(var/client/C)
        C.mob.show_rules()

If you want to know more about being able to use hyperlinks to change between pages within a popup, look up the client/Topic function.

You can also close a popup browser window by passing null as the first argument to browse.
mob/proc/close_rules()
    src << browse(null, "window=rules")

Also, concerning the html opening, you can make a function that returns that text instead if you want, and then you could give it a parameter that allows you to give it a title if you want, then you can call that function and pass nothing to have a normal html heading, or pass a text string if you want to title it.
proc/html_open(title)
    var/html = "<html><head>"
    if(title)
        html += "<title>[title]</title>"
    html += "</head><body>"
    return html

Then you could do something more like...
mob/proc/show_rules()
    src << browse("[html_open("Rules Page")][rules][html_close]", "window=rules")
Jul 15 2006, 7:23 pm
In response to Loduwijk
ummm thx man but i already put it in awhile ago, i already got it too come up when the usr logs in. I was just wonder if there was a command unstead of
or

cuz they put in too much of a space. But i just used them anyway. Sorry should of posted earlier.:/

Jul 15 2006, 8:32 pm
In response to FriesOfDoom
Make a list.
<ul>
  <li> Respect all
  <li> Eat noodles
</ul>
Jul 16 2006, 6:02 am
In response to FriesOfDoom
FriesOfDoom wrote:
I was just wonder if there was a command unstead of
or

cuz they put in too much of a space. But i just used them anyway.

CSS (cascading style sheets) should be able to help with that.
http://www.htmlhelp.com (or other sites about CSS. google could help)