SSR: Newsboard

This mod implements newsboard with real-time updates

Tested on Build 42.19.0

Client-side installation:

1) Subscribe 2) Enjoy

Server-side installation:

Step 1: Java mod (optional)

Install of java mod is required for new server command to work.

Download the latest version of java mod and unpack the archive to pzserver.

If your server is running on Windows, open the batch file you use to launch it and replace zombie.network.GameServer with zombie.SSROverride. If your server is running on Linux, use start-server-jm.sh script to launch it.

forceTab command allows users with access level of observer and above to show other player a specific tab of news panel and lock close button for N seconds.

/forcetab "username" tab_id time[/code]
If [b]time[/b] is not specified, close button will be locked for 10 seconds.
If player is surrounded by zombies, panel won't show up.

[h2]Step 2: Configuration[/h2]
After installing mod to your server, launch it and go to Zomboid\Lua\NFO directory. A config file named [b]config.ini[/b] will be generated with the following parameters:
[code]showPanelOnEveryLogin=false	// if [b]false[/b] panel show up only if player hasn't seen the latest version of the document
checkSafetyWithinSquares=0	// prevents panel appearing if zombies detected in X squares from player
lockPanelForSeconds=0	// if greater than 0, close button will be locked for X seconds on update

After you're done changing settings, restart the server and login into the game. Upon joining you'll see a panel with demo layout from default.txt. Refer to the syntax below in order to edit and fill in the document. To send players an update change the number at <VERSION: 1.0> and save the text file. To create a separate layout for specific language make a copy of default.txt with the name X.txt, where X is a language code (e.g. en, fr, es, ko, ru, etc).

Syntax:

<PAGE> - Splits pages
<LINE> - Defines new line
<H1> - Defines the most important heading
<H2> - Defines the most least important heading
<CENTRE> - Specifies the alignment to centre
<LEFT> - Specifies the alignment to left side
<RIGHT> - Specifies the alignment to right side
<LINK:X> (url without protocol) - Creates a button to copy text with one click
<SIZE:X> (small/medium/large) - Specifies text size
<IMAGE:X> - (path to file) - Represents an image
<IMAGECENTRE:> - Represents an image in centre
<RGB:1.0,1.0,1.0> (0.0-1.0) - Specifies text color using RGB values
<HEX:X> (000000-ffffff) - Specifies text color using HEX values
<RED> - Specifies red text color
<GREEN> - Specifies green text color
<BLUE> - Specifies blue text color
<ORANGE> - Specifies orange text color

Note: images must be placed into media/ui folder of your own mod.

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