Use your IAF wings

by Bert Van Kets
Note
The English ECO and Piccolo forum have started building the Ikarus Air Force or IAF. The goal is to motivate people to become better pilots. More detailed on the IAF will be posted later, for the time being this page handles the use of the Wings IAF pilots receive.

Once Radd posts the wings you will see them in his post. Save the image by right clicking on it and select "Save Picture As..." in the menu. Save it on you hard drive.

You can do two thing with it :

  1. use it as your avatar (the image below your nick name
  2. use it in the footer

Use as an avatar

  1. Go to your home by clicking on the "My Home" link at the top in the Ikarus BBS.
  2. Click on the Edit next to “Personal information, email, password, etc.”
  3. Go to the “Upload your picture ” option at the bottom of the page
  4. Click the browser button and select the wings image you saved (see above).
  5. Click on the Submit button

Your image will now be uploaded to the Ikarus server and will appear as your avatar. I fyou return to your personal inforamtion page, you'll see the URL below the field where you have uploaded your image.

Use in your footer

The easiest way use your wings in your footer is to temporarily set it up as your avatar and use the address Ikarus gives you.

  1. Go to your personal information page
  2. Use your wings image to set it up as your avatar
  3. Press the submit button and return to the personal information page
  4. You will now see the URL (address) of the image in the field below the one where you uploded your image. Copy that address
  5. Got to the “Signature” field about halfway the page
  6. Paste the address in that field
  7. insert “[image]” before the address
  8. insert “[/image]” after the address

Press the submit button and go to one of your posts in the BBS. Admire the result.

Note
When you use a non English language, it is possible that the [image] tag is replaced by another. The Spanish language setting uses [foto] instead of [image]

Note
Every “Enter” in the signature field will be a new line in the footer. If you want text to apear in on the same line as your image, just continue typing before or after the image code.

Upload an image and display in the post

If you want to display an image in a post, but you don't have a site to host it, you can upload it to the Ikarus BBS and use it there. The image must be smaller than 40 kilobyte though. If it's larger, downsize it, or use a higher compression. There are lots of applications around that do image manipulations. Try Paint Shop Pro. It's shareware and has all the features of the big ones.

  1. Start a new post or reply to a message
  2. Type all you need, except for the image
  3. Check the “Preview” checkbox and submit
  4. Add your image by clicking the Browse button and selecting your image
  5. Post and open your post
  6. Click on the Attachment link and copy the address of the image from the address bar of your browser
  7. Use the back button of your browser to go back to your post
  8. Edit your post by clicking on the “Edit” link
  9. Go to the place where you want the image to appear in your message and press the “Image” link in the UBB code block
  10. Paste the address of the image in the pop up window
  11. Submit your changes and admire the result.