Countdown Plugin [library support]

[NooBoards]

Strange that none of the above worked to affect the timer font.

If you find the time and don't mind I invite you to take a look. I'll have to approve your registration and bump your privs to see the style sheet.

I am PMing you details for accessing our forum.

[Wormopolis]

v2.0.0 submitted to library

created countdown object format editor so you can change the html inside the box
added option to show full countdown instead of shortened version
added check for invalid date (like feb 30)
removed default CSS (but provided as example on tab)

and with that, since you can edit the html inside, you can add in whatever additional classes you want

[NooBoards]

Feb 8, 2014 2:14:41 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

v2.0.0 submitted to library

created countdown object format editor so you can change the html inside the box
added option to show full countdown instead of shortened version
added check for invalid date (like feb 30)
removed default CSS (but provided as example on tab)

and with that, since you can edit the html inside, you can add in whatever additional classes you want

Wow, your responsiveness and turnaround are amazing. Looking forward to trying out 2.0.0!

[Wormopolis]

new version accepted

[Tressa]

I have an earlier version working on my main forum, but have been having trouble getting CSS to change from default. Trying the new version on my test forum and can't get it to show anything yet. What needs to go into the Object Format tab? I'm trying to place the countdown in a custom page inside an html widget.

[Wormopolis]

there should be default stuff in the box on that tab already. the default stuff is the same setup as the old versions, but now you can move stuff around.

you still need to use the <countdown> element like before. there is no longer any default CSS, so it should take on the colors of the forum, but you can add override CSS to the forum CSS using the same selectors as before.

[NooBoards]

Feb 8, 2014 20:25:37 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

there should be default stuff in the box on that tab already. the default stuff is the same setup as the old versions, but now you can move stuff around.

you still need to use the <countdown> element like before. there is no longer any default CSS, so it should take on the colors of the forum, but you can add override CSS to the forum CSS using the same selectors as before.

The Object Format tab defaults to empty for me as well. I think it would be helpful if it were prepopulated because while I can get some interesting output so far it is all static and nothing like a functional timer.

For example, I'm using the following in the Object format to get something horribly broken:

<countdown class="countdown" title=$[countdown_title] $[countdown_timer] message=$[countdown_message]/>
I should note that my attempts are towards using countdowns in posts.

[NooBoards]

Okay, I think I'm beginning to approach how the Object Format tab is supposed to be used. The following code does output a running timer to the screen that obeys my CSS rules:
<countdown>
<div class="countdown_default">
<div class="countdown_title">$[countdown_title]</div>
<div class="countdown_timer">$[countdown_timer]</div>
</div>
</countdown>

The part I seem to be missing is where I can specify the countdown_reached criteria and it not display before the end time and also to hide the countdown_default criteria at that point.

[Tressa]

Started all over and tried again. Have it working on the forum now. Thanks for the newest version Wormopolis. I'm finally getting the CSS changes to work better.

[NooBoards]

Feb 9, 2014 11:18:43 GMT -8 Tressa said:

Started all over and tried again. Have it working on the forum now. Thanks for the newest version Wormopolis. I'm finally getting the CSS changes to work better.

Can you provide a sample of what you are placing in the Object Format tab?

[Tressa]

NooBoards I've edited mine, but copied the default before changing it. Here's the default:

<div class="countdown countdown_default">
   <div align='left' class='countdown_title'><font size='3'>$[countdown_title]</font></div><br>
   <center><font size='4'><b><span class='countdown_timer'>$[countdown_timer]</span></b></font></center>
   <div align='right' class='countdown_message' style='display: none'>$[countdown_message]</div>
</div>
Hope this helps you.

[NooBoards]

Right on, thanks Tressa. No idea why my text field defaulted to blank so I was stumbling about trying to reverse engineer how it was supposed to look. it was the:

style='display: none'that I was missing from the messsage in order to hide the message until the object class changed.

[Wormopolis]

its not supposed to be blank. I have default values in there.

[NooBoards]

Feb 9, 2014 12:34:03 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

its not supposed to be blank. I have default values in there.

Maybe it was an artifact of moving from one version to the next?

[Wormopolis]

that has to be it.. if you completely delete the plugin, and load it again, does it still show as blank?