Author Topic: [FORUM REQUEST] Functionality for basic scripts in topics.  (Read 2153 times)

Basically everything that you'd see in spreadsheets, except all it allows you to do is edit information in the OP of a topic and topic title if you have it authored.  Or the ability to perhaps draw information from a spreadsheet in a stored location.

And if there's no safe way to do this, can a script be generated externally and have information created as in image similar to what occurs on the server status tiles?

can you give me an example usage of this
i think i know what you want

like
equations in a spreadsheet (sum row1, then divide by 5)?

Yes, like arithmetical expressions, but also logical expressions, date and time detection, etc.

Pretty much a lot of what is on here.

Also conditional formatting would be nice as well.

Bump.  Is this a thing that even exists in updated BBCode, or can exist at all?

for what do you even need this

forget, i went and posted this and i knew exactly how to solve this problem via crappy workaround but then i went and forgot what my solution was!

i think what i was going to suggest was using
information created as in image similar to what occurs on the server status tiles?
that idea to make this work, but i had a good idea for how to go about that and i went and forgot what it was sorry

No worries.

Is there some tool that you could use to do this that allows users to create and edit these flexible images (with functions etc.) relatively easily?

even if this could hypothetically be done, it wouldn't
updated BBCode
updated bbdcode? what?

even if this could hypothetically be done, it wouldn't
You're not the one to say.  Get out of here, please.

updated bbdcode? what?
BLF doesn't run on the latest platform.  This wasn't news.


badspot is the only person who can do this. and he won't, considering the fact that something like this definitely doesn't already exist for SMF (due to how absurd it is), and the fact that he would not be willing to put forth the effort required to make something like that for his forum
if you wanna get your hopes up about it for some reason, whatever, but I can just about guarantee you it'll never be a part of this forum
I guess someone could make some weird thing using images like lugnut's talking about, but I wouldn't put much faith in it

bbcode isn't a platform. the forum software, SMF, which is probably what you're referring to, isn't a platform either, so that was entirely the wrong term to use

and lastly, don't respond to posts like that. it's hard to read and harder to respond to

Whether you're right or not is not the point.  I do not wish to be lectured by someone who has a pattern of stepping into topics with more agenda to be right or to prove others wrong than to positively contribute towards solutions.

you still didn't explain what the use is

Just host the script yourself and provide its output through a SVG file, then use [img] with it.

Just host the script yourself and provide its output through a SVG file, then use [img] with it.
i think this was my master plan

i did this with the bluzone and it worked really well
i could even generate the images within torquestuff thanks to the text-based nature of SVGs
badspot is the only person who can do this.
you're right, but you're not being creative nor thinking broadly enough

remember that we have a long list of things we can presently do with bbcode - including posting images
images are very versatile on the web, especially if they're dynamically generated.

you still didn't explain what the use is
There are many, but here's an example:

i could even generate the images within torquestuff thanks to the text-based nature of SVGs
Perhaps link it to a minigame via a script and post scores on a topic.  Perhaps link it to the server and have it constantly update the ping to a topic, which players are on the server, maybe even keep a small dynamically-moving chat window.

This isn't limited to just servers, though.  The greatest thing that I would like to see is scripts that work like a spreadsheet, and update as quickly as it is updated.  Updating data, and then updating a topic is difficult.  If this were to run automatically, it would take much of the effort out of it.

Something like the "Forumer of the Day" topic could benefit from this.  It is something that could be very flexible, but its use would be very practical for specific purposes.