| * AW upgrade issues |
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| New default colors for sign objects |
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| * On 27th of July , the upgrade changed the default colours of the sign objects : white letters with blue background has been changed into black letters with white background. First, we did not know if this has been an upgrade mistake, or if this will be permanently. |
| * Chris (#268597) has confirmed on 3rd august that there are new default colours for the sign objects : the former default of white letters with blue background has been changed into black letters with white background. |
| This causes a problem for thousands of sign objects that have become unreadable : |
| 1) yellow text (without having specified the blue background) : |
| These signs have now yellow text and white background. |
| 2) black or darkgrey background (without having specified the white text) : |
| The signs are now totally black... |
| All these signs will have to be retyped in order to be solved. |
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| Pros and cons |
| * The main disavantage is that most of the people won't come back to modify the sign objects they have created : some people have even passed away or have been banned. This will make of Alphaworld a bit more of a junkyard, in addition to the many url-links that don't exist anymore. |
| * The advantage of the new default is that black text on white background is easier to read than white text on dark background. The scripts for those panels will become shorter, as you don't need to add the text color or background color in the command script. |
| * Another advantage is that this new default is already a new feature for the new AW version coming up in september. |
| * There is still the possibily that someone will write a bot script that can replace all signs with "black background only" by white background in the command scripts. |
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| Other issues |
| * French characters ( é â è î ç ) don't display anymore like it should upon the sign objects, you will have to retype them all over on the sign objects, then the problem is solved. |
| * Another upgrade problem was that the presets wouldn't load for some users. For solving this problem, go to the AW folder and double-click upon the upgrade.exe -file. The program will be re-installed, and you will see that the CAV's, PE's , AWG files , cloths, movers etc. are fixed again. |
| * A tip : make a copy of your awg-files and CAV's and put them somewhere else on your computer, if you need to reinstall the program (by deleting the aw files) ,then you still have a copy of them , which you can move to the new AW folder. |
