V4 News Fader 1.1.2

[Former Member]

Brian i have added a news item to login or register is it possible to use the variables to link those to the related pages ?

If so what are they $[login] and $[register] and would i be ok to just put ..

Please $[login] or $[register].

[Brian]

The variables are $[login_link] and $[register_link].

If you know how to add them based on my previous examples, then go for it.

[Former Member]

Oct 22, 2013 13:11:57 GMT -8 Brian said:

The variables are $[login_link] and $[register_link].

If you know how to add them based on my previous examples, then go for it.

    I think this did the trick

    Layout Templates > Home
    
<span id="newest-user" style="display: none;">Welcome to our newest user, $[newest_user]!</span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span id="last-thread" style="display: none;">Last Updated Thread: $[last_updated_thread]</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span id="login-register" style="display: none;">Please $[login_link] or $[register_link]!</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><script type="text/javascript"></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 10pt;">fContent.push(document.getElementById('last-thread').innerHTML);</span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 10pt;">fContent.push(document.getElementById('newest-user').innerHTML);</span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 10pt;">fContent.push(document.getElementById('login-register').innerHTML)</span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></script></span>


    Although ive changed the speed setting to "Very Slow" it doesnt seem to have slowed down that much might have to take it to the slowest setting ..

[Texas]

Brian: So I wanted to use this, but I didn't like having to add the stuff that would show up in the news fader, so I just copied your table and wrote my own code to automatically get the stuff from the v5 news bar. If I gave full credit to you for the table would you be alright with me putting it in the plugin database. Or do you not want me to copy your idea?

[Brian]

Nov 10, 2013 8:45:43 GMT -8 Texas said:

Brian: So I wanted to use this, but I didn't like having to add the stuff that would show up in the news fader, so I just copied your table and wrote my own code to automatically get the stuff from the v5 news bar. If I gave full credit to you for the table would you be alright with me putting it in the plugin database. Or do you not want me to copy your idea?

Do whatever.

[Brian]

Jan 1, 2014 7:50:28 GMT -8 jrryan said:

Brian

No Brian this bug is still here and also in IE11 with W8.1. I just added a line to my fader and if you make a typo and just try to backspace to change it the whole line or what you're doing disappears. Can't make any mistakes or it's time to start over.

Copy it to something like Notepad and edit it there, then just select all when you're done (Ctrl+A) and paste it into your plugin's settings page.

The task to fix this still hasn't been worked on by the developers, so naturally it's still going to happen.

[Brian]

You can surround the numbers with colored font tags in their HTML.

<font style="color: #00F;">$[total_members]</font>
<font style="color: #00F;">$[total_posts]</font>

You can color usernames in the news fader blue with CSS.

.v4news .user-link { color: #00F !important; }

[Brian]

Oh, that's not a link. That explains why the CSS isn't working. You'd need to do this to color it since it's just plain text.

fContent.push('Glad to have you back, <font style="color: #3650ec;">'+proboards.data ('user').name+'</font>.');

[Brian]

There's variables specific to the notifications, but they only exist in the Forum Wrapper template so they wouldn't be accessible in the same way as the other things you pushed into the news fader in the Home template.

In short, I'm not sure of an easy way to do it.

[K9 Block]

How do you use it please? It's just sitting on my forum flashing undefined at me and I can't see how to go in and either enable or diable it or have it show a message.

[Brian]

Jan 17, 2014 10:49:09 GMT -8 K9 Block said:

How do you use it please? It's just sitting on my forum flashing undefined at me and I can't see how to go in and either enable or diable it or have it show a message.

The same way you use any other plugin: Go to Plugins > Manage, find the plugin, and edit its settings so that it actually has news entries. The news fader flashing undefined means that you've not added any entries to its settings yet.

[K9 Block]

When it's not in use how do you get shot of the word undefined please?

[Brian]

Jan 17, 2014 13:12:00 GMT -8 K9 Block said:

When it's not in use how do you get shot of the word undefined please?

You can disable the plugin if you're not using it by unchecking the checkbox next to its name in Plugins > Manage.

[K9 Block]

Thanks.

[Brian]

Updated the plugin to 1.1.0.

- The plugin now works off the headlines and enable/disable setting specified in the News Feed section of the admin area
- HTML placed in the News Feed will work in the news fader
- Removed headlines in plugin settings in favor of aforementioned changes


This should also stop the issue everyone was having with backspace deleting news items.