SRL Archive - Tutorial Island

Welcome to another tutorial by Runescapian :D

This tutorial will be about the SRL-Forums toolbar –


(Looks this way because I wanted to avoid page stretching)

To start off….The User Control Panel. Access this by clicking User CP > User Control Panel

User Control Panel



This should bring you to your main User CP. From here, you can see where you received reputation, how much reputation you have, and things like that. You can also go to your Private Messages, Subscribed Threads, edit your person setting, and other stuff. Some people have said that they cannot access this page*, if you are one of them, the only thing I can suggest you do is PM (private message) an admin.

* You can also check your rep by going to one of your posts and attempting to rep yourself. It won't tell you where or when, but you can see how much you have.

Next, I’ll go in depth with the sections of your User CP…

Private Messages



Here, you can exchange/view private messages with other members of the forums as long as they don’t have the private message feature turned off. PMs aren’t the most efficient way of talking to someone though, so if that is what you want, I suggest using IM.

Subscribed Threads



In every thread there’s a place where you can subscribe to that thread and the forum will send you a message when there’s activity in the thread –



In this section of your User CP, you can view everything about your subscribed threads.

Edit Signature



Pretty self-explanatory. Here you can edit your signature :p

Edit Profile



Also pretty self-explanatory. Here you can change your personal info, such as date of birth, whether to display it, your home page, and your IM screenames.

Edit Options



Here you can edit your personal forum options, including who you want to receive emails from, subscription modes, private messaging options, and much more.

My Profile
(The miscellaneous button is unclickable ;))



Here you can view your profile as others would see it.

Edit Favorite Smilies



If you put a checkmark on any of the smilies here, they are added to the menu that pops up when you click the big :) while you’re posting, and also below your post while you’re posting. Otherwise you could just access a command list of how to put them on by clicking the :) and More Smilies.

FAQ




FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions. Self explanatory – just little things that might come up while you’re on the forums are answered here.

Members List



Lists all the members registered on the forums. You can make it sort them however you want, and you can search by name. Clicking on a name brings up that user’s profile.

Calendar



A calendar of birthdays of users on the forums…..that goes up to December 31, 2006. -_-

iSpy



Ahhh, the iSpy. A very useful tool if you’re sitting on the forums with nothing to do. It automatically updates as new posts are made, and gives previews of the posts, you don’t even have to refresh ;)

Wiki



This is a decent place to start learning how to script, however, in my opinion, Tutorial Island is better. This includes sections on Basic/Advanced Scripting Techniques, an SRL-Include Glossary, SRL Trouble Shooting, and R0b0t1 (Lol :p Probably a week after this tutorial is writing that last section won’t exist, and now that I said that you’re probably going to go edit it right now).

Bug Tracker



Here you can report any bugs you find in the SRL include.

New Posts



This is somewhat similar to iSpy. Clicking on it brings up all the posts you’ve missed since your last visit, and if you’re just browsing around, you can click it see recent posts, but you have to refresh if you want it to update.

Search



Click this to search for keywords in a thread or post. Use this before posting a question or concern of your own to make sure it hasn’t been answered before.

Quick Links



Most of these are pretty self-explanatory. If there are any you feel aren’t, please say so. They are basically just a compiled list of links that you could otherwise access by going to User CP, New Posts, etc.

Donate



Donate! The only widely-known perk is that 100x100 avatar (ANYBODY CAN GET THIS, you don’t have to be an SRL Member+). I’m sure there are some other things as well, but I can’t be certain. Any Site Supporter that leaks what the rewards are will be stripped of their Site Supporter rank. Any amount will do.

Log Out



Self-explanatory. If you have read this far spell the first word of your post with two of the same letter to start (ex: This would be Tthis).


Hope you enjoyed reading my guide :D

Happy….using the toolbar?

Tthe page is really wide, with my crappy CRT monitor I have to scroll sideways and stuff to read it all.

Also, I knew all this, when I first log on I do New Posts, then I just lurk in iSpy for the rest of the time.

But none-the-less, a pretty good tut

(also, my "User Control Panel" button does not work, but I don't care, no one reps me anyways, and I don't like to bug admins)

EDIT:
Hmm, when I came back to edit a spelling the page wasn't so wide, so nvm on that part.

Fxied that right after I posted it originally :p

(Nice to see you actually read it :D)

READ?!
How dare you accuse me of that!

Good Tut, but isn't the Donation Rank for $5+?

From: strikerx25
Good Tut, but isn't the Donation Rank for $5+?

I mean if you just donate 1 cent you wont get it. Someone got it for $2.50

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EDIT:
Hmm, when I came back to edit a spelling the page wasn't so wide, so nvm on that part."

Ah, that reminds me. You can also check your rep by going to one of your posts and attempting to rep yourself. It won't tell you where or when, but you can see how much you have. I'll put that up there.

Wwow that was a very in depth tutorial… I am one of the unlucky ones who can't view usercp, what can the admins do to help if we PM one of them? Rep ++

Stickyfied! Thank you. Good tut!

From: king of the nites
Wwow that was a very in depth tutorial… I am one of the unlucky ones who can't view usercp, what can the admins do to help if we PM one of them? Rep ++

Glad you like it :)

From: WT-Fakawi
Stickyfied! Thank you. Good tut!

:eek::eek::eek:

Wow! Thanks WT-Fakawi! :D

nice tut

@@Topic:

:) Good Job, it got stickied. Very nice tut and thanks for getting the images (there is a lot in this) must have took you a long time to make. Good for newbies to the Forums.

@Offtopic:

My user cp dosen't work either. When I click it it shows a blank page. :(

Way to ruin the test to see how many people read it…

From: Brain
Way to ruin the test to see how many people read it…

Meh, those who are in it just for postcount++ without reading the tut wouldn't bother to read the comments either :p

Yeah, I suppose that is true:rolleyes:

Nice guide thank you

Great guide thanks for the help :)

From: vzlarik
Nice guide thank you

From: dxonraw
Great guide thanks for the help :)

Too bad you guys didn't even read it…

thanks for the tut, I've never used the bar before but this definately helped

From: mirisido
thanks for the tut, I've never used the bar before but this definately helped

Dude, you didn't even read the whole thing…..