Changing compliments

[Mykle1]

@AliAS said in Changing compliments:

Does that sound right?

Sure, but another idea would be to rename the non-functioning config (so you don’t lose what’s in it) and THEN make a new copy of the config.js.sample and rename it to config.js. :-)

[Stacy]

@Mykle1 Okay. We finally figured it out. We made an external join file for new compliments and that worked. Thank you all SOuch for your help.

[Mykle1]

Well done! :-)

[AliAS]

External join file? Lol, thats way outta my league.

[AliAS]

Does anybody know how to use a line break within a compliment? I’ve tried about a dozen different ways to no avail.

[doubleT]

@AliAS
Compliments are included via document.createTextNode(complimentText); which doesn’t allow HTML inside.

But you can change the line within getDom: function() {} that includes the compliment from
wrapper.appendChild(compliment);
to
wrapper.innerHTML = complimentText;

and then just add a <br /> to the compliment.

[AliAS]

I see. I’ll give it a try. Thank you very much.

[AliAS]

@doubleT That worked perfect. Thanks again!

[KC5RIL]

Oh, great! Another noob needs help configuring the Compliments module. I’ve sussed through this for two days trying to get this up and running to earn ‘cool dad points.’ I’ve followed along and made changes to the config.js file as described. When I run ‘npm start’ I get the following: ```
code_text

> magicmirror@2.12.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

[2020-08-19 20:06:47.257] [LOG]    Starting MagicMirror: v2.12.0
[2020-08-19 20:06:47.264] [LOG]    Loading config ...
[2020-08-19 20:06:47.268] [ERROR]  WARNING! Could not validate config file. Starting with default configuration. Please correct syntax errors at or above this line: /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js:68
			config: {
			^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:722:23)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:798:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:645:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:560:12)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:685:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:16:16)
    at loadConfig (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:67:12)
    at App.start (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:202:3)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js:126:7)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:786:30)
[2020-08-19 20:06:47.269] [LOG]    Loading module helpers ...
[2020-08-19 20:06:47.317] [LOG]    Initializing new module helper ...
[2020-08-19 20:06:47.318] [LOG]    Module helper loaded: updatenotification
[2020-08-19 20:06:47.321] [LOG]    No helper found for module: helloworld.
[2020-08-19 20:06:47.322] [LOG]    All module helpers loaded.
[2020-08-19 20:06:47.445] [LOG]    Starting server on port 8080 ... 
[2020-08-19 20:06:47.458] [LOG]    Server started ...
[2020-08-19 20:06:47.459] [LOG]    Connecting socket for: updatenotification
[2020-08-19 20:06:47.460] [LOG]    Sockets connected & modules started ...
[2020-08-19 20:06:47.556] [LOG]    Launching application.

What am I looking at? And how can I correct? Bear with a middle aged noob. You might have to explain this in crayon. Thanks for the help.

[Mykle1]

@KC5RIL

Post your config entry for compliments in a code block