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  • March 7, 2015 at 12:31 pm #7382
    AusWoody
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      Gday Chatters,
      seems  not everyone  is as competent  with  their  PC's  or the software  running on it  as  some others. i decided to share some of my knowledge with those  i keep it simple , and take  request  for  anything specific anyone needs.

      March 8, 2015 at 12:34 pm #145665
      AusWoody
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        PC Basics 001
        Tips On Editing Your Stories For Publication
        AusWoody.
        Edited and Proofed by Brandybee

        The recommendation is you use Microsoft Word or similar for large posts or stories. Then copy and paste to the Forum Text box to post in Forum.

        1. Use Spell Check.

        • Click on “Review” at the top of the page and it will bring up a drop down menu.
        • Click on “Spelling and Grammar”. This will high light any errors for you to correct.

          • [/list]

          2. To check spacing.

        • Press keys “Control or ctrl “ and “H” together to bring up an edit box – “Find and Replace”

        • In “Find what” click your cursor in the box and hit the “space bar” twice (No written text)

        • Then in the “Replace with” click your cursor in the box and hit the “space bar” once. (No written text)

        • Then click on the “Replace All” button underneath.

        • It will take out all the error spaces to single spaces between words and tell you how many it has corrected.

          • [/list]

          3. To check your paragraphs are the recommended 2 enter spaces.

        • Press keys “Control or ctrl “ and “H” together to bring up an edit box – “Find and Replace”

        • Click “Special” at the bottom of the ” Find and Replace ” box to bring up a menu.

        • Click on “Paragraph Mark” (P). “ ^P “ will appear in the “Find What” box.

        • Click cursor in the “Replace with” box and click on the “Special” button.

        • Click on “Manual Line break” “ ^l “ will appear in the “Replace with” box.

        • Then click on the “Replace All” button underneath.

        • It will take out all the error extra “Enter” spaces to 2 enter spaces between paragraphs and tell you how many it has corrected

          • [/list]

          As you can see this “ctrl and H” edit tool can be used to correct your writings in other ways. It is particularly useful when using the 'special' characters in the sub menus and when you think outside the box. Play around and let us know the most useful you use.

          5. Copy and Paste.

        • Once you are happy with your story, spellings, grammar and spacings, its time to copy and paste it into a “Reply” or “New Topic” box in forum.

        • Write your text in a blank page on Microsoft word / office or similar.

        • Then highlight by using 'ctrl' A.

        • One high lighted, press the keys 'ctrl' C  this copies the selected text.

        • Then place your cursor in the text box and and press the keys “ Control & V together. After a few moments it should paste all the text you high lighted.

          • [/list]

          Stay tuned for further enlightenment from the above authors
        March 8, 2015 at 2:39 pm #145666
        AusWoody
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          PC Basics 002
          Screen Capture Made Easy
          AusWoody.
          Edited and Proofed by Brandybee

          How to take a picture of your Screen or Avatar to Post or PM.

          1. Open an account with photobucket. Its free and ideal for this purpose. – photobucket.com. I’d advise to use your forum username and remember an easy password. You will need to provide an email too. Use you game email.

          2. Make a new folder in your “Pictures” on your PC. To do this, find or search for your “ Pictures” Open it up and in a vacant space, right click to bring up a menu. Click on “New” “Folder” and name it “Forum Edited Picture's” or something you can easily remember. Then close that down.

          3. Most PC's have windows paint but you can also download for free “Gimp” and / or “Bandicam.

          4 If you have Windows 8 – On the App screen (which is the one with the tiles), near the bottom of the screen there should be an arrow in a circle. Click that. That should change your screen to the Apps by name screen.

          5. In the top right corner there is a search box. (Its in the top right corner on mine). In that box type PAINT. This should bring up the Windows Paint programme on your PC.

          6. Click on That and it should open your Paint program.

          Lets have a quick lesson.

          7. Minimise Paint, but leave it running. Then open AChat. You don't have to log in, just let it load or you can log in and room. Once AChat is loaded:

          8. Take a screenshot – if in a room, turn the camera till you find the right view you want, then press the “Print” button on your keyboard (or “stamp”, depend where you live!). Usually it's placed near the “F12” button. It also can have “prt sc” on it
          Take a screen shot of the AChat page.

          9. Bring your paint programme back up by clicking on the paint icon at the bottom of the page. Try pasting that into Paint. (I use CTRL + V keys to paste)

          10. At the top of the Paint page you should see Crop. Click on that to crop the image so it includes only what you want. Drag the window for the selection you want and click on Crop again. If you mess up, there is an undo arrow at the top of the screen. This takes some practice, but don’t give up. Use the square or rectangle and start at the left top edge, drag it around. You will find your own best practice and as you get better, you can practice with the other crop shapes if you want.

          11. Click on the cropped picturer, it gets rid of the part of the picture you don’t want.

          12. Then use SAVE AS in File on the top bar, to save it. But save it in JPEG (JPEG uses less Kb's than the default PNG). Just remember where you saved it to. I would probably save it to Forum Edited Picture folder, you made earlier.

          13 – If you want to upload a picture to Achat Game – login in the AChat main web page and, in the right corner of the screen under “Buy A$” you will find “Character picture upload”: hit it and follow the instructions that appear. Be sure you have 99 A$, cause it costs to upload personal pictures.

          14. Go to Photobucket. Click on “Upload” and then ” Choose photo or video” Follow the instructions for it to upload.

          15. On the right click on “Direct ” to copy the URL for your picture.

          16. Paste it in your Forum ” Message ” or ” Reply” box. The URL will appear.

          17. Then high light it (Holding left button down on your mouse and dragging across )

          18. Above the smiley faces above is a square box ” insert image” ( 2nd one from the left),

          19 . Click on that, it will bracket the URL for you

          20. Then preview, using the preview button below the typing box. The picture should come up above this section. Check its looks right and not too large. If its not, try again

          21. Then send / post it. Practice . You just learnt a new skill   

          It can occur a picture can be to large and it doesn't fit in the post window (maximum width is 800). you can resize it without modifying it off-line.

          To do it, just have to add this simple code: width=200

          converting this
          (img]link of the picture[/img)

          to this

          (img width=200]link of the picture[/img)

          where 200 is the size you want to set. I can give a hint: for room example, a good size is from 700.

          Stay tuned for further enlightenment from the above authors
          March 17, 2015 at 10:20 am #145667
          AusWoody
          Participant

            HOT TIP 101!!!
            Link Navigation

            Did you know ….. You can actually get to links posted in aChat Forum without copying and pasting them into a new page address bar

            • highlight the link

            • right click the link
              a pop up menu appears

            • the second choice is  “GO TO  “

            • click this one  normally

            • a new browser page opens at that address

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            March 17, 2015 at 10:43 am #145668
            AusWoody
            Participant

              HOT TIP 102!!!
              Web and Document Page Navigation

              Did you know ….. its easy to navigate  aroound a page   either  Web or Document?
              there are four <4> keys that you need to find

              • HOME
                this returns you to the top of the page

              • END
                this takes you to the bottom of the page

              • PAGE UP
                this up the previous screen of the page

              • PAGE DOWN
                this brings up the next screen of the page

                • [/list]

                Depending on the operating system and the coding of the page adding with it may be necessary

                Experiment with different pages  and  editors and different key combinations
                shift  ctrl alt  ect you cant  hurt your pc  be brave, expand your  own knowledge
                and i love to receive feedback from you both positive  and negative

                knowledge is power  and sharing that knowledge is divine

                Stay tuned for further enlightenment from the above authors

              March 17, 2015 at 1:04 pm #145669
              Brandybee
              Participant

                HOT TIP 101.  I never knew this, I've tried it out. It works with the Forum links to other topics and the songs.  Thanks Aus. I will be using  this in future.

                HOT TIP 102.  I have been using this for some time now, after Covems told me how to use it.  Saves loads of time scrolling up or down.

                Thank you.

                September 5, 2015 at 7:38 pm #145670
                AusWoody
                Participant

                  HOT TIP 103!!!
                  Colour options for forum

                  Brandybee has a list of colours that work in forum
                  https://funnyadultgamesplay.com/forum/index.php/topic,2788.msg117690.html

                  which is fantastic :)

                  i done a slightly improved version listing 140 colours  by name and hex code and made them in the actual colour

                  the ones that work in fourum and messages here show the actual colour
                  those that are not forum compatible show as code  tho they will work on web pages.

                  NOTE!!! the written colours thayt dont show  will show if you use the HEX CODE,
                  LavenderBlush #FFF0F5 doesnt show but
                  LavenderBlush #FFF0F5 does because the name is replaced by hex code

                  NOTE!!! color must be spelt american for coding not the REAL and correct english spelling  :P

                  hope this is useful for some

                  ColorName    HEX
                  AliceBlue #F0F8FF
                  AntiqueWhite #FAEBD7
                  Aqua #00FFFF
                  Aquamarine #7FFFD4
                  Azure #F0FFFF
                  Beige #F5F5DC
                  Bisque #FFE4C4
                  Black #000000  haha guess what colour this one is
                  BlanchedAlmond #FFEBCD
                  Blue #0000FF
                  BlueViolet #8A2BE2
                  Brown #A52A2A
                  BurlyWood #DEB887
                  CadetBlue #5F9EA0
                  Chartreuse #7FFF00
                  Chocolate #D2691E
                  Coral #FF7F50
                  CornflowerBlue #6495ED
                  Cornsilk #FFF8DC
                  Crimson #DC143C
                  Cyan #00FFFF
                  DarkBlue #00008B
                  DarkCyan #008B8B
                  DarkGoldenRod #B8860B
                  DarkGray #A9A9A9
                  DarkGreen #006400
                  DarkKhaki #BDB76B
                  DarkMagenta #8B008B
                  DarkOliveGreen #556B2F
                  DarkOrange #FF8C00
                  DarkOrchid #9932CC
                  DarkRed #8B0000
                  DarkSalmon #E9967A
                  DarkSeaGreen #8FBC8F
                  DarkSlateBlue #483D8B
                  DarkSlateGray #2F4F4F
                  DarkTurquoise #00CED1
                  DarkViolet #9400D3
                  DeepPink #FF1493
                  DeepSkyBlue #00BFFF
                  DimGray #696969
                  DodgerBlue #1E90FF
                  FireBrick #B22222
                  FloralWhite #FFFAF0
                  ForestGreen #228B22
                  Fuchsia #FF00FF
                  Gainsboro #DCDCDC
                  GhostWhite #F8F8FF
                  Gold #FFD700
                  GoldenRod #DAA520
                  Gray #808080
                  Green #008000
                  GreenYellow #ADFF2F
                  HoneyDew #F0FFF0
                  HotPink #FF69B4
                  IndianRed  #CD5C5C
                  Indigo  #4B0082
                  Ivory #FFFFF0
                  Khaki #F0E68C
                  Lavender #E6E6FA
                  LavenderBlush #FFF0F5
                  LawnGreen #7CFC00
                  LemonChiffon #FFFACD
                  LightBlue #ADD8E6
                  LightCoral #F08080
                  LightCyan #E0FFFF
                  LightGoldenRodYellow #FAFAD2
                  LightGray #D3D3D3
                  LightGreen #90EE90
                  LightPink #FFB6C1
                  LightSalmon #FFA07A
                  LightSeaGreen #20B2AA
                  LightSkyBlue #87CEFA
                  LightSlateGray #778899
                  LightSteelBlue #B0C4DE
                  LightYellow #FFFFE0
                  Lime #00FF00
                  LimeGreen #32CD32
                  Linen #FAF0E6
                  Magenta #FF00FF
                  Maroon #800000
                  MediumAquaMarine #66CDAA
                  MediumBlue #0000CD
                  MediumOrchid #BA55D3
                  MediumPurple #9370DB
                  MediumSeaGreen #3CB371
                  MediumSlateBlue #7B68EE
                  MediumSpringGreen #00FA9A
                  MediumTurquoise #48D1CC
                  MediumVioletRed #C71585
                  MidnightBlue #191970
                  MintCream #F5FFFA
                  MistyRose #FFE4E1
                  Moccasin #FFE4B5
                  NavajoWhite #FFDEAD
                  Navy #000080
                  OldLace #FDF5E6
                  Olive #808000
                  OliveDrab #6B8E23
                  Orange #FFA500
                  OrangeRed #FF4500
                  Orchid #DA70D6
                  PaleGoldenRod #EEE8AA
                  PaleGreen #98FB98
                  PaleTurquoise #AFEEEE
                  PaleVioletRed #DB7093
                  PapayaWhip #FFEFD5
                  PeachPuff #FFDAB9
                  Peru #CD853F
                  Pink #FFC0CB
                  Plum #DDA0DD
                  PowderBlue #B0E0E6
                  Purple #800080
                  RebeccaPurple #663399
                  Red #FF0000
                  RosyBrown #BC8F8F
                  RoyalBlue #4169E1
                  SaddleBrown #8B4513
                  Salmon #FA8072
                  SandyBrown #F4A460
                  SeaGreen #2E8B57
                  SeaShell #FFF5EE
                  Sienna #A0522D
                  Silver #C0C0C0
                  SkyBlue #87CEEB
                  SlateBlue #6A5ACD
                  SlateGray #708090
                  Snow #FFFAFA
                  SpringGreen #00FF7F
                  SteelBlue #4682B4
                  Tan #D2B48C
                  Teal #008080
                  Thistle #D8BFD8
                  Tomato #FF6347
                  Turquoise #40E0D0
                  Violet #EE82EE
                  Wheat #F5DEB3
                  White #FFFFFF
                  WhiteSmoke #F5F5F5
                  Yellow #FFFF00
                  YellowGreen #9ACD32

                  December 11, 2015 at 12:15 am #145672
                  foxman57
                  Participant

                    Here is a useful tip for users. A shortcut to Forum in the game …
                    hit gift
                    hit add money
                    wait for browser to open
                    then go to forum
                    then you can click cancel on the add money when you click back over to room or wherever you were

                    January 19, 2016 at 5:14 pm #145673
                    AusWoody
                    Participant

                      HOT TIP 104!!!
                      Upgraded Screenshots

                      There is a great app for improving screenshots

                      Its called lightshot and free it alows you to draw on ur screenshot   text arrows ect 

                      Its easy to use and the features are very useful try it out let me know what you think

                      http://app.prntscr.com/en/download.html

                      BGhnSaG.png

                      Knowledge is power  and sharing that knowledge is divine
                      Stay tuned for further enlightenment from the above authors

                      March 15, 2016 at 10:26 am #145671
                      AusWoody
                      Participant
                        uploading a banner to your forum signature

                        open an account at photobucket  or imgur i prefer imgur
                        upload banner to there
                        get the link from there

                        gotoforum /profile / Forum Profile Information

                        scroll down to signature box
                        paste the banner url in that box

                        save

                        and your done:)


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                        May 25, 2016 at 8:05 am #145674
                        Anonymous

                          Thanks Woody for sharing
                          much to read but deff worst the time

                          May 25, 2016 at 8:30 pm #145675
                          AusWoody
                          Participant
                            Happy to help
                            May 16, 2021 at 12:55 pm #145676
                            Momma_andrea
                            Participant

                              The colors of the Forum.
                              https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_names.asp

                              The pic below is just a very partial list simply for examples sake.

                              abf9b564acc4dd57f05a9d5c3d15deb87514ab04.jpg

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