I just want to show you my latest new tool

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I just want to show you my latest new toolMarius09/12/2008 - 03:02

I wrote a tool that makes me post in rainbow. Bearing through the risk of looking extremely gay, I actually kind of like it :)

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolBallisticsfood09/12/2008 - 13:44

If you ever, EVER use that in cold blood I will be forced to come down your intertubes and strangle you.

On the other hand... It is kinda hypnotic...

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Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolMarius09/12/2008 - 19:11

I'm using it on a different forum as a social experiment if I can be taken seriously when I post every post in rainbow. Things got out of hand, and someone posted an ascii Mona Lisa. Then I just had to one-up him, so I made the mona lisa in ascii art with a rainbow hue over it. I was going to show it, but the character limit here is only a third of what it is over there, so I can't...

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolNic Freed09/12/2008 - 22:43

stop it or ill be forced to whip out "wingdings" :)

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolMacatttack09/12/2008 - 23:17

[quote author=Nic Freed link=topic=195.msg1631#msg1631 date=1221277393]
stop it or ill be forced to whip out "wingdings" :)

tell me how or I'll be forced to whip out a dictionary of boring words and post them all... in gray techno font  :P

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolResilient09/13/2008 - 03:36

[quote author=Nic Freed link=topic=195.msg1631#msg1631 date=1221277393]
stop it or ill be forced to whip out "wingdings" :)


As long as they are rainbow

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolMarius09/13/2008 - 08:23

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolNic Freed09/13/2008 - 12:54

i zoned out and stared into your las post for like 20 minutes marius :)

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolMacatttack09/13/2008 - 13:00

I need that script! P-M it to me or die!!!
and tell me what forum PLZ. :P

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolMarius09/13/2008 - 14:10

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolDil99909/13/2008 - 14:39

The XKCD forums create 50% of the internet's cool forum-related shit.

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolMacatttack09/13/2008 - 14:48

[quote author=Marius link=topic=195.msg1642#msg1642 date=1221333010]


nah, I just want scripts.  :-\

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolMarius09/13/2008 - 19:15

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolMacatttack09/13/2008 - 21:55

[quote author=Marius link=topic=195.msg1645#msg1645 date=1221351323]

Uhhh, not on my browser... I think.  ???

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolDil99909/13/2008 - 22:29

Could you send me the photoshop file + script?  It's a pretty nice effect that they produce.

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolMacatttack09/13/2008 - 22:42

yeah, just send it to me, I'll figure out what to do. :P

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolNic Freed09/14/2008 - 13:14

[quote author=Marius link=topic=195.msg1642#msg1642 date=1221333010]


it took me about 5 hours to read through that because its so hypnotizing, especiall because my ipod was playing jimi hendrix at the same time :) talk about zoning out...

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolBallisticsfood09/16/2008 - 14:51

who... whoa...

Must. Avert. Gaze!

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolT3rminator10/08/2008 - 18:30

That's a neat looking tool could you post a Download link because it's hard to do it manually , thanks T3rminator

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolMarius10/08/2008 - 18:33

Here's the script. It's not really user-friendly though... it takes the text on the clipboard and replaces it with the bbcode'd text.
colorspeed = 0.1<br />sizemax = 200<br />sizemin = 80<br />sizespeed = 0.3<br /><br /><br />sizeavg = (sizemax + sizemin)/2<br />sizeampl = sizeavg - sizemin<br />out = ""<br />import math<br />from random import random<br />i = random()*2*math.pi/colorspeed<br /><br />from ctypes import *<br />from win32con import CF_TEXT, GHND<br /><br />OpenClipboard = windll.user32.OpenClipboard<br />EmptyClipboard = windll.user32.EmptyClipboard<br />GetClipboardData = windll.user32.GetClipboardData<br />SetClipboardData = windll.user32.SetClipboardData<br />CloseClipboard = windll.user32.CloseClipboard<br />GlobalLock = windll.kernel32.GlobalLock<br />GlobalAlloc = windll.kernel32.GlobalAlloc<br />GlobalUnlock = windll.kernel32.GlobalUnlock<br />memcpy = cdll.msvcrt.memcpy<br /><br />def GetClipboardText():<br />      text = ""<br />      if OpenClipboard(c_int(0)):<br />          hClipMem = GetClipboardData(c_int(CF_TEXT))<br />          GlobalLock.restype = c_char_p<br />          text = GlobalLock(c_int(hClipMem))<br />          GlobalUnlock(c_int(hClipMem))<br />          CloseClipboard()<br />      return text<br /><br />def SetClipboardText(text):<br />      buffer = c_buffer(text)<br />      bufferSize = sizeof(buffer)<br />      hGlobalMem = GlobalAlloc(c_int(GHND), c_int(bufferSize))<br />      GlobalLock.restype = c_void_p<br />      lpGlobalMem = GlobalLock(c_int(hGlobalMem))<br />      memcpy(lpGlobalMem, addressof(buffer), c_int(bufferSize))<br />      GlobalUnlock(c_int(hGlobalMem))<br />      if OpenClipboard(0):<br />          EmptyClipboard()<br />          SetClipboardData(c_int(CF_TEXT), c_int(hGlobalMem))<br />          CloseClipboard()<br /><br />for a in GetClipboardText():<br />  if a == " ":<br />    out = out + " "<br />    continue<br />  red  = "%X" % int(math.sin(colorspeed*i              ) * 127 + 128)<br />  green = "%X" % int(math.sin(colorspeed*i + 2*math.pi/3) * 127 + 128)<br />  blue  = "%X" % int(math.sin(colorspeed*i + 4*math.pi/3) * 127 + 128)<br />  if len(red) == 1: red = "0" + red<br />  if len(green) == 1: green = "0" + green<br />  if len(blue) == 1: blue = "0" + blue<br />  size = str(int(math.sin(sizespeed*i) * sizeampl + sizeavg))<br />  out = out + "[=#" + red + green + blue + "][=" + size + "]" + a + "[/][/]"<br />  <br />  i += 1<br /><br />SetClipboardText(out)

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolT3rminator10/08/2008 - 18:35

Thanks , is that code for VB6 or another coding program ?

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolMarius10/08/2008 - 18:36

Python

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolHideous10/08/2008 - 22:55

Python is awesome. I love you.

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolonek10/14/2008 - 19:12

Everytime I read rainbow text, I talk in my head as if god is talking to me, is this normal?

Re: I just want to show you my latest new toolhplant10/16/2008 - 17:54

[quote author=onek link=topic=195.msg2814#msg2814 date=1224029566]
Everytime I read rainbow text, I talk in my head as if god is talking to me, is this normal?


Ahaha I was thinking the same  ??? feel pretty strange