Description: This style is very similar to the one we used to run at ubbdev, minus the header/footer. If I can find the blank versions of the header graphics that you can use I'll post the code for it too.
Hi there. I really like this style but when I downloaded it, it did not include the silver bars or the blue-graph background. Did I not download something right? Thanks.
I followed Gizmo's directions at ubbdev to remove the "As" in the format and this worked great. I also removed Allen's urls throughout the wrapper.txt.
technically your urls ARE also hardcoded too. you just hardcode a relative url and assume that the images will be in '/images/yourstyle/xxx.gif'
first thing i did was to modify your urls to '/styles/yourstyle/images/xxx.gif', because i believe it's more logical there at least.
and the person installing the style will still have to know to ftp the images appropriately to the 'relative URL'
way i see it is that it's 6 of one and 1/2 dozen of other here. i see just a difference of full vs relative and that's it.
neither is 100% automatic
now if the style uploader itself took that into account and the images magically appeared all synced up.... hrm.. now where did i hear that before? *crickets*
it's like deja vu all over again...
ps: allen, i used your theme and it turned into one of the more popular ones, btw
Mine have been a drop in and go for every user i've sent it to... It assumes you upload your images to your styles/images directory into the folders contained with the style; it should work out of the box if uploaded as stated...
and where i've used the term 'drop in' in the past, i really meant a full on drop in with the images being uploaded as part of the 'browse for file(s)' process.. Scenario: you'd be browsing to a my.new.style.zip, which has not only the wrapper, but also the images .. all is done in one fell swoop. and same applies for the opposite direction (ie: saving the style to hdd)
oh and it even extends further, just to finish the thought. a lot of times, i will have a set of general images (post icons etc) that belong with the style too and it would be nice to have that part of the overall thing we call a 'style'
Some of the older ones may have hardcoded paths; I forgot to think aobut the original ones that i haven't updated since they came out (which most ended up updated in 7.1)
I think after I do my summer renovation of my DVR I'll need to take a look at my older styles and push out a few new ones ...
Not true; look at my styles... Not one URL is hardcoded and it works perfectly out of the box; you just have to set the url attribute properly
You can't use the style on a page at http://www.yoursite.com/games/index.php if your forum is at /forums/ and the images are at /forum/styles/images without some sort of hard-coding of /forum/styles/images/image.gif
styles/images/image.gif isn't gonna be the link you are wanting outside of the forum directory