# I had a cool idea! (program that creats sdmb code much like MS word) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 30, 2003, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473 "2003-05-30T09:30:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/21 "2003-05-30T16:20:56Z")
I’d like to see it, too. I had toyed with the idea of hacking up a Java app to do this (maybe even with hotkeys for smilies), but I’ve never gotten around to it. With all these feature requests, maybe you should open-source it…and let them add their damn features. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/22 "2003-05-30T20:03:25Z")
[b}jjimm{/b] as you can see, \*I{//i] don’t really need a copy but feel free to post that [underline]link. as soon as possible. [soiler]It’ll be our secret[soiler]. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/23 "2003-05-31T08:22:51Z")
Ok I was drunk when I wrote it, but it works anyway. I just checked in here on the boards (hence no response to those requests yet) (happy drunk. not depressed drunk) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/24 "2003-05-31T08:28:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mooka \* > \*\*Sounds interesting - send me a copy if you could… \*\* You haven’t listed your e-mail address. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/25 "2003-05-31T17:30:09Z")
There’s already a program like that out there … it’s called BBTool. See [http://pspprogramming.multimania.com](http://pspprogramming.multimania.com) . Wheeeeeee! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/26 "2003-05-31T17:41:56Z")
There’s a reason why I hardly use it, too. I don’t want to be thrown into the BBQ Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/27 "2003-05-31T19:30:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elmwood \* > \*\*There’s already a program like that out there … it’s called BBTool. > > See [http://pspprogramming.multimania.com](http://pspprogramming.multimania.com) . > > Wheeeeeee! \*\* And after pressing quote on the above, I can see why you fear a pitting :eek: I downloaded that app, it needed some dlls that I don’t have. Mine is dll independent. ---
**Author:** ![lilbtagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lilbtagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilbtagna)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/28 "2003-05-31T22:06:21Z")
Thank you **Lobsang** , for emailing the program 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chattywine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@chattywine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chattywine)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/29 "2003-05-31T22:32:54Z")
Is this a PC er Windows only app? I’m a MAC user, can I use it too? Oh pleeeeaseeeeee… ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/30 "2003-06-01T20:43:54Z")
Bumpety bumpety bump. **Lobsang** kindly mailed me the app. I have zipped it and put it up for Dopers’ downloading pleasure [here](http://www.crowaptok.com/sdmb/SDMBPost.zip) (36K) to give him a bit of peace and quiet. I haven’t actually been able to get it to run yet, as it’s whining about requiring rtl60.bpl to run, but I’m sure I’ll be able to download and install this DLL-alike soon. Sorry, **chattywine** , it’s a Windows-only .exe. ---
**Author:** ![lilbtagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lilbtagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilbtagna)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/31 "2003-06-01T20:57:34Z")
What is rtl60.bpl? My computer needs it too. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/32 "2003-06-01T21:49:45Z")
Doesn’t happen to have spoiler ability or listing or stackable tags, does it? It’d be nice to do something like [spoiler] _ **this** _[/spoiler] without having to type in tags for a minute. Upon preview, that spoiler space doesn’t quite work as advertised. Kinda cool:) OH! Can you make one with a “disable smilies” thingy? And while we’re on the subject, one that goes to the bathroom for me and fetches cooked pizzas from the oven would be lovely so I don’t have to get up at all except to change the channel on the television:D ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/33 "2003-06-01T22:02:48Z")
I once downloaded an OS 9 (not OS X) version of a program like this, but since I rarely am in OS 9, I never really used it. If anyone can locate an OS X version, please let me know! ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/34 "2003-06-02T00:11:21Z")
Here’s the thing… I could quite easily make it do just about every tag there is, and a few non-tag things. I made it while I was ahem, drinking (and looking for something to do) and people started asking for it, so I sent it, with only 3 tags implemented. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/35 "2003-06-02T00:17:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*Doesn’t happen to have spoiler ability or listing or stackable tags, does it? It’d be nice to do something like > > [spoiler] > > _ **this** _[/spoiler] > > without having to type in tags for a minute. > > Upon preview, that spoiler space doesn’t quite work as advertised. Kinda cool:) > > OH! Can you make one with a “disable smilies” thingy? And while we’re on the subject, one that goes to the bathroom for me and fetches cooked pizzas from the oven would be lovely so I don’t have to get up at all except to change the channel on the television:D \*\* I could make one where you assign a keyboard shortcut to a set of open tags (color,size,b,u,i) and a set of close tags. so to do what you did you’d type ctrl-k (for instance), then ‘this’ then ctrl-k again. easier would be to just finish off the tags (I only have bold, italic, and quote implemented) so you’d pick red from a picker, pick 5 from a size picker then press ctrl-r ctrl-s ctrl-b ctrl-u ctrl-i then type ‘this’ then press all those ctrls again (the order doens’t matter, vbulletin is clever like that) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/36 "2003-06-05T01:16:13Z")
It turns out my webspace _is_ working. So I’ve posted an updated version (more tags) there. [Linkypoo](http://homepages.manx.net/lobley/sdmbpost.exe) I haven’t added all the colours to the list. nor have I bothered to test the ones I did add. I am lazy. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/37 "2003-06-05T01:20:05Z")
helldamnfart! - I forgot to create keyboard shortcuts for the new tags. \ ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/38 "2003-06-05T06:19:37Z")
I haven’t downloaded this new version yet **Lobsang** , so don’t know if you’ve added it: A save function. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/39 "2003-06-05T06:33:20Z")
Okay, I have it now. **Lobsang** - Buddy, chum, matey, pal o’ mine - Any chance of a save feature? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473/40 "2003-06-05T12:38:17Z")
A save feature you shal have And by the looks of **elmwood** ’s post we are not limited to the colours in the dropdown. So I might add in a 24bit colour picker. I am saying I this I that. It’s really Builder that’s doing all the work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-cool-idea-program-that-creats-sdmb-code-much-like-ms-word/178473.md?page=3)