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I just got all the new styles sorted out, after the 711-722 upgrade. My upgrade was missing the new-alt ones, and it was blanking lines out. Looks cool now.
But, it lead me to another thought... (dangerous, I know)
If we can change the colours and styles for new posts, how about an option for Sticky posts?
I find they disappear into the list of posts, or don't really stand out as different or important, from the other posts in the forum. I'd love to make them a different colour background at least, so that they do become part of the header, letting people see where the real posts start.
Does that make sense?
Thanks Rick! Andrew
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for the short term, i added an additional class for sticky / announces to the tpl that renders the HTML.. ie: class="newintopic sticky" ... *drumroll* 'sticky' for stickies and 'announcement' for announcements yah yah, i know i used some obscure naming there soooo, you can easily add your sticky and announce classes to the 'Extra CSS' section for each theme for the mean time.. by 'mean time', i mean.. 7.3... there is no official new class that you style in the admin editstyle.php world ... having the extra class does nothing to affect any existing styles at all, so it's at worst harmless
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Hmmmm - adds to Watch List for 7.3 .... Cos I know, I'm gonna forget....
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so... it's in 7.3? or you're saying I can manually add it myself in 7.3?
...or?
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I think I get it. Would anyone know which tpl displays the topics list? Naw. I've looked. I don't get it.
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Heh, i think we should add the class, and just not shove it in the style editor ...
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ok, so, leave it alone, and let Rick put an announcements and stickies style section into 7.3?
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7.3 is locked, and I thik Rick said "no new classes" because we where getting too "feature addition" heavy while waiting for him to finalize the PayPal options ...
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Well that's no good then. Paypal? Hmmm...
Sirdude... do you have a few mins to help me via email? Just point me in the right direction sort of thing.
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yah Giz is right. there are no new styles in the style editor. what i was saying is that you can add it yourself to the Extra CSS portion and take advantage of the 7.3 tpl that accommodates you, if you choose to.. now for 7.2.2, all you have to do is edit postlist.tpl and just check for "{if $postrow[topic].announce}" in the post loop ("section") and then decide to add your chosen extra class to style those rows.. /templates/default/postlist.tpl .. *poof* voila
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cool. will try that. thanks!
and these "extra" classes you're talking about, are in the "Extra Properties" section of the style editor... where I can just add some extra ones, name as I wish...
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You would add any additional classes you WANT to add to the extras section, it gives you a sandbox to define your own classes if you'd like...
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Well Sirdude, I repeat... can I hire your help?
I recognize that you guys see this as simple, but I'm a network engineer, who hasn't programmed professionally since the late 80's. I can decode the scripts, and I think I know what to do to make extra css entries, I think... but truly, I can only find the announce IF, and no sticky IF statement.
I will pay. Or, if this will be moot in 7.3.1, and is too complex, just say so. I need a little hand-holding though.
again, maybe by email is best andrew@bienhaus.org
then we can toss script examples back and forth...
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oh sorry bout that Andrew. i send you and email
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<snicker> mention money to any of the popular beta testers here and you've hired yourself your own personal scripter
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Bah. It's never been about money for me, I'll happily pay someone who is friendly and helpful, and willing to get me over the generational coding gap. But, in the end, being custom, and a bit of a hassle, what SirDude has been able to show me, is that this feature is indeed going to be present in 7.3, so I will wait for that, and employ it then. Thanks again Sir, much appreciated! Andrew
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you are welcome ps: speaking of generational coding.. i've been doing it since 1971..
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I'm already imagining, announcements with a blood red background, and white letters.
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-LOL- Then you're ahead of me... That's cool. I went into hardware, networks, and servers in the early 90's, when I found I just didn't have the patience to sit for that long staring at code. The hardware, satisfied the engineer in the blood, and got the hands dirty. A good buddy stayed with the coding... and well, he's now located closer to Rick and the team on the west coast... retired from MS for 9 years now. Wonder if I should have tolerated a bit more code...
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I'm a BSEE by schooling, but was heavily into the CS side of things. I designed one board, sold it and moved to coding and never looked back too many Karnaugh maps for my taste
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Started with Mech Eng.. raised by two generations of them. But went back to my first love, thinking it would make me happy.
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I trained in cobol and was pretty good at it - sadly there isn't much call for it these days - mind you I have also forgotten most of it
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I did that until college. College was about IT. Am glad though I got the electronics background, still helps me quite a lot.
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