color for the font in the posts based on the hours of day

[giovanni79]

if someone is able to create it i would like to have in my forum a plugin that allows to have a different color for the font in the posts based on the hours of day i think it would be a nice thing to realize could be have a different color for the font each three hours for a total of eight different colors make to me know if someone it's interested

[giovanni79]

lynx i don't understand what you means with developer guidelines i several years ago had a forum in another paltform and before i redone here i had a script that allows this thing but there are no violations in any mode it was a creation of a script maker for all forums that if their staffers want it can have it
sincerely i can understand that maybe it's not easy create these things i speak as one that don't make it absolutely this is certain but thinks that if i have a particular thing in my forum don't do a offense to someone i want say if i have all posts write in purple i not offend someone that in another forum preferred write them in red without a plugin
then yes obviously it's possible change the color of font manually when we want but certainly i can't do this each hour or more it's senseless in my opinion it's not even a question of have the time to do it
however if for developers maybe you intend the administrator/s of the forum i'm alone and in it i do all that must be done alone and i think that never someone come to join me

[Chris]

It is still ambiguous as to what is being requested, making the mechanics of such a plugin ambiguous and therefore very difficult to gauge the feasibility of such a plugin.

1. color chosen at time of writing based on time of day and affecting only that post (inline CSS)
2. color chosen based on time of day and affecting all existing posts during that time window and cycling throughout the day (rotating CSS)
3. color chosen via the timestamp on the existing post and matched up with the chosen color defined for the timeframe and affecting all viewed posts (charted CSS)
4. some other interpretation...

[giovanni79]

chris sincerely i don't understand almost nothing of that you have say me i do fatigue because apart from that i'm not a expert of these things as i already say i'm italian and not speak english i know this language enough well yes but i don't speak it if that were the case it would have been different however to me seems to understand that here i can not have a plugin that can give me the effect that i desire in my forum

[Chris]

Nov 13, 2023 14:24:09 GMT -8 giovanni79 said:

chris sincerely i don't understand almost nothing of that you have say me i do fatigue because apart from that i'm not a expert of these things as i already say i'm italian and not speak english i know this language enough well yes but i don't speak it if that were the case it would have been different however to me seems to understand that here i can not have a plugin that can give me the effect that i desire in my forum

giovanni79 , it is not a matter of having the expertise to build the house but rather a matter of you giving the specifications of the house. Do you want one bedroom or twelve? Should it be multiple floors and if so, what kind of staircase? What sort of windows...

In my last reply, I gave you three separate ways to interpret that request. A competent builder is not going to run out and buy building materials without knowing what the dimensions and type of house would call for. A code is a set of instructions put together in sequence so a code that does x.y.z will not have the same set of instructions as a code meant to do a.b.c. You can't ask that someone start building without first having a clear vision in their head of what it is that is getting built.

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[giovanni79]

chris unfortunately i can not able to furnish accurate details of this thing that years ago i had in my previous forum i can only tell you that initially i had put in my forum inserting manually a html code initially because afterwards i had install that script with a particular panel created by its developer all taken in a forum i hadn't done anything in this panel was possible configure the font color, size, family and precisely the hours of day when you want see the configurations that you had setted in the forum that interest all forum not only a thread, a section or a post exclusively also it was possible make customization on the posts for example put a colored frame around the text that you wrote
i can't even show you how it was because i don't have more that forum (i don't have create it here on proboards) and naturally i don't have any codes however it does not matter i have installed many plugins in my forum here and i'm satisfied anyway the last one just some hours ago thanks to scott who suggested it to me

[giovanni79]

Chris todge told me you wanted to know how the posts should change color and wrote me four alternatives in the discussion of his plugin

- color chosen at the time of writing based on the time of day and which only affects that post (inline CSS)
- color chosen based on the time of day and which affects all existing posts during that time window and scrolls throughout the day (CSS rotation)
- color chosen via the timestamp on the existing post and matched to the chosen color defined for the time range and which affects all posts displayed (tracked CSS)
- some other interpretations...

the second alternative is my choice, I would like to set a color for all forum posts in all sections (so not just one post, those of a single discussion or a single entire section) based on the time, for example if from 3AM to 6AM choose red (#F00000) all the posts must be seen so you could make a total choice of eight colors for the text, one for every three hours starting from midnight so 0AM-3AM, 3AM-6AM, 6AM-9AM and so on, in Italy we don't use AM and PM and therefore we call 1PM 1pm but if you prefer the American time slots that's fine too
this was what I did a long time ago, in addition to the color I could also change the font type (for example Arial) the size and put a personalization in the posts for example a colored border around the text
I think I've told you everything more clearly than I can't really be

[Chris]

In that case, you can accomplish that using the Condition X plugin. You can use that to change any of the CSS properties mentioned and any that I assume were forgotten or not mentioned.

Even the ones that were mentioned, such as font color have no definition for what happens to sub-elements in the post such as quotes or code boxes. Condition X would be a better approach than trying to write a kitchen sink plugin, which would inevitably be disappointing since it would never exactly meet the functionality from your previous forum that now lives as nostalgia within your memory.



Without a clear definition in precise terms where that definition can be used to create code, it would be a fool's errand to try and create such a plugin in my opinion. The Condition X plugin is versatile enough to handle most if not all that you are seeking to accomplish there.

[giovanni79]

chris ho installato il plugin che mi hai suggerito poi ho inserito il codice come si vede nella foto che hai postato e il testo dei miei post ha cambiato colore sai avevo capito che il condition x serviva a impostare qualcosa quando lo volevi tu nel mio forum avevo già qualcosa di simile ma con quello che possedevo non era possibile impostare colori per il testo in base all'ora e infatti non pensavo che il condition x potesse fare proprio questo
sei stato davvero gentile mi hai fatto iniziare questo anno veramente nel modo migliore dovevo rifare assolutamente questa cosa che avevo fatto nei miei forum precedenti (non era uno erano quattro infatti da uno dipendevano gli altri tre)
avevo cercato di essere il più chiaro possibile per spiegarti quello che volevo fare se eri italiano come me sarebbe stato diverso comunque l'importante è che mi hai dato l'aiuto di cui avevo bisogno non potrò mai ringraziarti abbastanza ovviamente devo ringraziare anche virgil sovereign per aver creato questo plugin

[giovanni79]

chris ho notato che il plugin non riesce a fare proprio quello che facevo una volta ti spiego il colore del testo dei miei post con il codice che mi hai suggerito funziona ma non cambia in base all'ora attualmente il codice ce l'ho così

<style>
   #content .posts
       .message {
           /* define time rotation text color */
           <on date="after 2 PM <thedate/>">color:#00FF00;</on>
           <on date="after 4 PM <thedate/>">color:#FF00FF;</on>
       }
</style>

qui in italia non sono ancora le quattro del pomeriggio 4 PM appunto e io il testo dei miei post lo vedo già ora di colore magenta che ha il codice esadecimale appunto FF00FF 00FF00 è il codice esadecimale del verde limone quindi il plugin mette un solo colore e nemmeno in base all'ora accetta un solo settaggio di colorazione l'ultimo anche se sopra gli metti tutti quelli che vuoi
non è una cosa felice da dire ma il plugin emula solo una piccola parte dello script che avevo nei miei forum precedenti il bello era il cambio automatico del colore in base all'ora io niente dovevo fare un solo settaggio e durava per sempre in pratica
non credo che ho fatto errori il codice l'ho copiato correttamente è un peccato comunque hai fatto tutto il possibile per aiutarmi e io lo apprezzo

[Chris]

There is a setting for timezone on the WHEN tab where you choose the timezone the plugin uses in its calculations (I believe it defaults to Central time USA). Once you set the plugin up as you want it should not need any other intervention to keep working on a daily basis.

[giovanni79]

come opzione di default era settato -6 in pratica ci sono diverse fasce orarie nordamericane pacifica, atlantica, centrale, orientale, zona di montagna il numero sei corrisponde alla zona centrale e dice di mettere un più o un meno in base a dove si trova la nazione a ovest o a est del meridiano di greenwich forse dovrebbe essere così ma sinceramente non ho proprio idea di che cosa si deve mettere quale numero quale fascia tutto quell'inglese non mi aiuta e io non ne capisco di meridiani e paralleli non ho proprio idea di che cosa ci devo scrivere là il testo comunque non cambia in base all'ora
è troppo difficile per me sarà meglio lasciar perdere

[Chris]

Italy is +1 relative to GMT

[giovanni79]

chris ho scritto +1 ma niente prende sempre l'ultimo colore della lista e non è quello che dovrebbe esserci adesso

[Chris]

Jan 5, 2024 7:51:55 GMT -8 giovanni79 said:

chris I wrote +1 but nothing always takes the last color in the list, and that's not what should be there now

That is exactly how it works; by CSS rules, the last color in the list always wins, but that last color in the list depends on the time of the day. The list is obviously organized in chronological order as shown (from earliest to latest)

#content .posts .post{
        .message {
            /* define time rotation text color */
            <on date="after 1 PM <thedate/>">color:#000000;</on>
            <on date="after 2 PM <thedate/>">color:#00FF00;</on>
            <on date="after 4 PM <thedate/>">color:#FF00FF;</on>
            /* based on last definition of equal specificity wins */
        }
}

If it is currently 3 pm, then the plugin removes anything that does not meet the criteria in the above code resulting in the removal of <on date="after 4 PM <thedate/>">color:#FF00FF;</on>  leaving the resulting CSS for the browser to process

#content .posts .post{
        .message {
            /* define time rotation text color */
            color:#000000; /*❌*/
            color:#00FF00; /*✅*/
            /* based on last definition of equal specificity wins */
        }
}

If you are not seeing that then post what you have or better yet give a forum URL.

It is always better to be physically at the crime scene to examine the clues yourself rather than rely on piecemeal photographs or witness statements where each witness usually has a completely different perspective on what happened.