[Plugin] Multicolored Categories

[Former Member]

Nov 17, 2012 20:54:02 GMT -8 Brian said:

Done.

Added options for title bar border color, title bar background image, and container border color. I also hopefully made it so that it doesn't matter if there's new lines, spaces, or tabs between the <h2> tags.

Awesome!! Thank you

[Brian]

Nov 17, 2012 21:23:35 GMT -8 pawl said:

Yet another request, because hey, it's not like you have anything else to do.

Would it be possible to make the colour changes carry over to the thread list, and maybe even threads themselves within the boards that're in each category?


ed; my spelling is awful.

Just experimented with this for a little over an hour and it looks like it's a no go.

I got everything working except the scrolly thingy with the page numbers and actions. At first it complied, but then the page added its own style attributes to it, removing mine.

In short, it would probably take a whole lot of work and thinking power and make the script for this way, way bigger. Sorry, man.

[pawl]

Nov 18, 2012 1:38:07 GMT -8 Brian said:

Nov 17, 2012 21:23:35 GMT -8 pawl said:

Yet another request, because hey, it's not like you have anything else to do.

Would it be possible to make the colour changes carry over to the thread list, and maybe even threads themselves within the boards that're in each category?


ed; my spelling is awful.

Just experimented with this for a little over an hour and it looks like it's a no go.

I got everything working except the scrolly thingy with the page numbers and actions. At first it complied, but then the page added its own style attributes to it, removing mine.

In short, it would probably take a whole lot of work and thinking power and make the script for this way, way bigger. Sorry, man.

No worries bud. It's not actually something I'd have an immediate use for (if I even had an active forum), just thought it'd be cool, basically. =P

[Brian]

Nov 18, 2012 8:25:04 GMT -8 pawl said:

No worries bud. It's not actually something I'd have an immediate use for (if I even had an active forum), just thought it'd be cool, basically. =P

I had another go at it, found some more variables that were available, and made it work. Woo!


So now boards and threads within a colored category can inherit the colors of the category. This also includes the legend, board info, and shoutbox.

[pawl]

Nov 18, 2012 19:19:58 GMT -8 Brian said:

Nov 18, 2012 8:25:04 GMT -8 pawl said:

No worries bud. It's not actually something I'd have an immediate use for (if I even had an active forum), just thought it'd be cool, basically. =P

I had another go at it, found some more variables that were available, and made it work. Woo!


So now boards and threads within a colored category inherit the colors of the category. This also includes the legend, board info, and shoutbox.

Righteous. =]

Testing now, and it seems to be working almost 100%
Everything changes, works in boards (including sub boards), but my fourth category refuses to work. =[

[Brian]

Nov 18, 2012 19:27:09 GMT -8 pawl said:

Nov 18, 2012 19:19:58 GMT -8 Brian said:

I had another go at it, found some more variables that were available, and made it work. Woo!


So now boards and threads within a colored category inherit the colors of the category. This also includes the legend, board info, and shoutbox.

Righteous. =]

Testing now, and it seems to be working almost 100%
Everything changes, works in boards (including sub boards), but my fourth category refuses to work. =[

That 4th category hates me.

Apparently in the source its name is followed by a \n. Why the heck is it doing that?

[pawl]

Nov 18, 2012 19:30:28 GMT -8 Brian said:

Nov 18, 2012 19:27:09 GMT -8 pawl said:

Righteous. =]

Testing now, and it seems to be working almost 100%
Everything changes, works in boards (including sub boards), but my fourth category refuses to work. =[

That 4th category hates me.

Apparently in the source its name is followed by a \n. Why the heck is it doing that?

I'm not even sure what \n does. =P It was the one that I left from last time though, when the extra spaces were killing the plugin - same fix as before. Edit cat, no changes, save, works. Before it would show up pink on the main page, not inside the board. Now it all works. Odd. =P

ed; fwiw, the category name problems are a PB thing, not me. =P When editing there was no extra spaces or anything, so I'm blaming your end, or the conversion or something. =P

[Brian]

Nov 18, 2012 19:36:00 GMT -8 pawl said:

Nov 18, 2012 19:30:28 GMT -8 Brian said:

That 4th category hates me.

Apparently in the source its name is followed by a \n. Why the heck is it doing that?

I'm not even sure what \n does. =P It was the one that I left from last time though, when the extra spaces were killing the plugin - same fix as before. Edit cat, no changes, save, works. Before it would show up pink on the main page, not inside the board. Now it all works. Odd. =P

ed; fwiw, the category name problems are a PB thing, not me. =P When editing there was no extra spaces or anything, so I'm blaming your end, or the conversion or something. =P

\n in a script denotes a new line.

Not my plugin's fault, but your forum doofing up. Might be worth noting in a bug report or something next time it comes up.

[pawl]

Nov 18, 2012 19:41:26 GMT -8 Brian said:

Nov 18, 2012 19:36:00 GMT -8 pawl said:

I'm not even sure what \n does. =P It was the one that I left from last time though, when the extra spaces were killing the plugin - same fix as before. Edit cat, no changes, save, works. Before it would show up pink on the main page, not inside the board. Now it all works. Odd. =P

ed; fwiw, the category name problems are a PB thing, not me. =P When editing there was no extra spaces or anything, so I'm blaming your end, or the conversion or something. =P

\n in a script denotes a new line.

Not my plugin's fault, but your forum doofing up. Might be worth noting in a bug report or something next time it comes up.

Only noticed cat names thus far, but at some point I'll try looking through a new forum, and will convert another one up to see what that does. =]

[Brian]

Updated to 1.2.1 for a small fix when using certain characters (ex: & needed to be &amp;, but wasn't accepted in both the title bars and the Javascript object check).

Also, you can now preview this plugin when using the Cave of the Err Bear skin here on ProBoards Support.

[Brian]

1.2.2
- Fixed colors not applying when replying or creating new threads



1.2.3
- Fixed colors not applying when quoting or editing

[Izaya Orihara]

Would it be too much to ask for font-styles? A lot of rp sites now are using google fonts, and other font styles- is there a way to put this in the code, or edit it so we can use it in combination to this code? 

[Maiden]

It just doesn't seem to work at all for me :s

I even created the new category test and tried the save without editing anything thing and turning off all my other plugins but to no avail.

solariatest.freemessageboards.com/

Any ideas?

[Brian]

Nov 25, 2012 21:11:54 GMT -8 Izaya Orihara said:

Would it be too much to ask for font-styles? A lot of rp sites now are using google fonts, and other font styles- is there a way to put this in the code, or edit it so we can use it in combination to this code? 

You can already add CSS with the font BBCode tag in the Display Name field when you're editing a category.
For instance, add [font style="font-variant: small-caps;"]Category Name[/font] and it'll come out as:

Category Name

It's a feature now. No extra bells or whistles necessary.

I've never used Google Fonts, but I doubt it would have to be embedded into my plugin for it to work, from what I'm reading.

Nov 29, 2012 5:33:45 GMT -8 Maiden said:

It just doesn't seem to work at all for me :s

I even created the new category test and tried the save without editing anything thing and turning off all my other plugins but to no avail.

solariatest.freemessageboards.com/

Any ideas?

The default theme layout updated, so my code is outdated because it's looking for the title bar's specific class.

I've fixed this on my end and I'll upload the plugin tonight.

[Brian]

1.2.4
- Changed the way the code finds categories to account for layout changes on PB's end