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[Boy_Wonder]

Heyas Todge no biggy I'm just noticing I'm getting an error 404 file not found referring to this: storage.proboards.com/5358990/c/.css file and was wondering if you could assist

[Todge]

Jun 28, 2014 2:06:11 GMT -8 kevinp said:

Jun 27, 2014 13:56:32 GMT -8 Todge said:

Yup.. To have the Recent Threads scrollable, put this in the plugins CSS..


#recent-threads-cell { overflow: auto; }


OK, I've put it in but nothing moves? I actually mean scroll all the time. Trying to get movement in the cell to make it more eye catching.
So sorry for being so useless at this. Type of Marquee.

Hmm... You can put this in the GLOBAL FOOTER of your forum..

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--

$(document).ready(function() {
var xxx = $('#recent-threads-cell').html();
xxx = '<marquee direction="up" height="100%" scrollamount="2" scrolldelay="1">'+xxx+'</marquee>';
$('#recent-threads-cell').html(xxx);
});

// -->
</script>

And change the red numbers to change the speed to suite you.. But you will have to wait for the page to load before the scrolling starts.

[Todge]

Jun 28, 2014 8:37:16 GMT -8 Boy_Wonder said:

Heyas Todge no biggy I'm just noticing I'm getting an error 404 file not found referring to this: storage.proboards.com/5358990/c/.css file and was wondering if you could assist

Sorry.. Error 404 indicates that the page trying to be loaded/read from is not available, so there's nothing I can do.

I assume its a CSS file on your forum? If so, only one of the important people with the red names may be able to help.

Try posting on the Support Board, that's where you're more likely to get noticed.

Sorry I can't be any more help.

[Boy_Wonder]

It's actually been directly linked to your plugin, as in disabling it removed the error. RE - support.proboards.com/threads/recent/516634

[Todge]

It is too...

This plugin does not access any remotely stored sites or files so I have no idea how that should happen, and looking through the code, I haven't seen anything that could cause that error, and I can't see any styling of the cells that is missing.

Very strange indeed, and at the moment I'm stumped.

[kevinp]

A REALLY BIG THANK YOU. Works great. I must say, you know what you doing.
Thank you for all your help.

[Boy_Wonder]

I have a really random question for you Todge - did you originally use an internal code style sheet that got corrupted name or something? As I'm pretty sure it should have /[name].css not just .css

[Todge]

Jun 28, 2014 22:36:47 GMT -8 kevinp said:

A REALLY BIG THANK YOU. Works great. I must say, you know what you doing.
Thank you for all your help.

No worries..

[kevinp]

There are a number of things I would like to do on the forum, but have no clue about codes etc.
Sometime if you are not too busy, maybe you could go to the forum when I'm there and give me some advice?
Thanks once again

[Todge]

Jun 28, 2014 22:57:38 GMT -8 Boy_Wonder said:

I have a really random question for you Todge - did you originally use an internal code style sheet that got corrupted name or something? As I'm pretty sure it should have /[name].css not just .css

I noticed that too, but no.

The styling the plugin uses is held in a variable and written directly to the page, besides, if I remove that part of the code the error is still there. The only other styling the code uses is that of the current theme.

If the plugin was attempting, and failing, to load a CSS file then I'd expect the styling to be off, but it works fine.

I'll start going through the plugin disabling the functions, that should isolate the part of the code throwing the error, but to be honest I'm totally flummoxed as to how the error is even happening.

[Boy_Wonder]

Thanks - the only thing I can think of is if its trying to grab the forums css file (something I have disabled) but its failing and its erroring because I don't have it to use the forum style sheet... if that makes sense?

[Todge]

FOUND IT!!!!!!!!

There was no problem with the coding at all, after completely dissecting the code, changing variable names and removing the styling I still got the error. I even got the error after removing the entire contents of the code and tried to run an empty plugin... That's what told me what the problem was..

After running an empty plugin I got a heap of other, similar, errors, so the plugin obviously saves the CSS, JS, Headers/Footers etc. whether they have contents or not. Now, while writing the plugin I was playing with different styles, and used the CSS option within the plugin to do that, after deciding that was not such a good idea, I removed all the CSS but left the box open, so the plugin was attempting to load an empty CSS file.

Why a plugin should save the contents of an empty box but error on retrieving it I have no idea, but it is fixed..

You can get the error free version here.

[Boy_Wonder]

Thank you Todge! I'm sorry for being such a pain XD

[Todge]

No worries..

[scifikriss]

Todge If you put a new version on here can we all download it and use or is it best to wait for an 'official' update.  Still new to pro boards so was wondering how this all works...

Kriss