Question

How can I define / change the style of auto - links to Non Existing Topics ? Does it always have to be a yellow background ?

Environment

-- BorisHolzer - 22 Oct 2003

Answer

We were talking about this on TWikiIRC only yesterday. To date the colour is a preference (NEWTOPICFONTCOLOR) but the format "word?" is not, that is hardcoded in the code.

It's in TWikiDotPm, about line 2392

} elsif( $doLink ) {
        $text .= "<span style='background : $newTopicBgColor;'>"
              .  "<font color=\"$newTopicFontColor\">$theLinkText</font></span>"
              .  "<a href=\"$scriptUrlPath/edit$scriptSuffix/$theWeb/$theTopic?topicparent=$webName.$topicName\">?</a>";
        return $text;

    } 

If you'd like to contribute code to make this configurable we'd be eager to incorporate your changes.

-- MartinCleaver - 22 Oct 2003

The new topic background color is not hardcoded, see code:

    $newTopicBgColor   = TWiki::Prefs::getPreferencesValue("NEWTOPICBGCOLOR")   || "#FFFFCE";
    $newTopicFontColor = TWiki::Prefs::getPreferencesValue("NEWTOPICFONTCOLOR") || "#0000FF";

Change the NEWTOPICBGCOLOR setting in your TWikiPreferences

-- PeterThoeny - 22 Oct 2003

Thanks for posting that code, Martin. I can't believe I (think I) can understand most of it. But, I really don't know what the periods (".") represent — are they line continuation marks? (The second two, maybe?) What about the first (in ".=")?

-- RandyKramer - 23 Oct 2003