New BB feature to play with :) [Archive]

phil

24th July 2001, 12:08

Not a very exciting one I am afraid, but my first modification to the BB code.

On the main page, I have made the "Currently Active Users" text a link that will show you just whereabouts on the BB the other members are. Funnily, this is not a feature of the vBulletin and I had to mess with the code to get it to work.

Have fun :D

X-Calibur

24th July 2001, 12:22

Sorry Phil doesn't seem to work on my end of the pond....

Is it like the old board like where you get to see what page an active member is currently viewing?

Maybe I just plainly missed something...?

phil

24th July 2001, 12:29

Yup X, it is the same as the old BB's function. I liked that feature and had to get vBulletin to do it :D It works fine here....is anybody else having a problem?

X-Calibur

24th July 2001, 12:32

Working fine now.... maybe me was stupid and not clicking the right place... duh !!!!

Remember, I'm blond too.... so give me a chance bro... LOL:D

Chas

24th July 2001, 13:02

Works a treat,
i lurve new thingys, what's next in line ?

Medic193

24th July 2001, 14:34

That's a pretty cool function. I have multiple windows open for the BB and it shows them all. I like it!:p

Martyn

24th July 2001, 15:05

Originally posted by Chas
Works a treat,
i lurve new thingys, what's next in line ?

What about chat?

actually, if you lurk in the www.vbulletin.com forums, there are tons of mods, hacks and whatever to customise it.

phil

24th July 2001, 15:16

I have been lurking there tril & chat is high on my hit list of mods :D

Dave S

24th July 2001, 18:28

cool now everybody can see i'm everywhere at once:D:D (lol or should that b dnar & siggy):p

dnar

25th July 2001, 10:13

Ok, I was unable to connect with the BB server tonight, but boy, since it has come back it is twice as fast! What have they/you done Phil???

phil

25th July 2001, 14:17

Originally posted by Chas
Works a treat,
i lurve new thingys, what's next in line ?

The currently active users are now coloured...blue for members, green for mods and red for admin.

pelligrini

25th July 2001, 14:28

Thought you'd pick Pink, judging by some of the avatars you've had lately. ;)

X-Calibur

25th July 2001, 14:31

Originally posted by pelligrini
Thought you'd pick Pink, judging by some of the avatars you've had lately. ;)
ROLFMAO !!!!!

Medic193

25th July 2001, 14:40

Phil is really putting in some time to this board. Nifty little pics above the links up top and now colors for members. Whadda guy!!:D Really you're doing a great job with the board. Why do I have a space in between line 1 and line 2 of my smilies?

X-Calibur

25th July 2001, 14:43

Originally posted by Medic193
Phil is really putting in some time to this board. Nifty little pics above the links up top and now colors for members. Whadda guy!!:D Really you're doing a great job with the board. Why do I have a space in between line 1 and line 2 of my smilies?
Ditto.
great work Phil... noticed the color thingy... sweet... and the top nav bar is just awsome....
You're so much better than that old admin we had at ACHO's BB...:D

phil

25th July 2001, 14:43

Originally posted by Medic193
Phil is really putting in some time to this board. Nifty little pics above the links up top and now colors for members. Whadda guy!!:D Really you're doing a great job with the board.

Thanks Medic :)

Why do I have a space in between line 1 and line 2 of my smilies?

I don't know, why do you have a space in between line 1 and line 2 of your smilies? :) ....It's OK here, can you get a screen grab?

phil

25th July 2001, 14:45

Originally posted by pelligrini
Thought you'd pick Pink, judging by some of the avatars you've had lately. ;)

Hmmm, think PINK....I might do that tomorrow. Time to spend some time with the Missus :rolleyes:

siggy

25th July 2001, 21:43

Thanks Phil.......you are working really hard on the BB and I appreciate it.....

<<<HUG>>>

Alfred Das

26th July 2001, 06:59

Not sure Phil cares to be mr. Pink. Hehe - good movie.

A:\

siggy

26th July 2001, 07:33

Originally posted by phil

The currently active users are now coloured...blue for members, green for mods and red for admin.

Why does it show that we have more members on then the members that are listed. Is it possible to be in stealth mode without being a guest?

There are currently 6 members and 1 guests on the boards. | Most users ever online was 21 on 07-13-2001 at 14:34.
LBaker, siggy, Yo_Mama

phil

26th July 2001, 09:17

Yes Siggy, you can adjust your stealth properties in your profile. Moderators can still see that you are online though.

LBaker

26th July 2001, 09:38

phil

26th July 2001, 10:10

Under the last post section on the main page, you can see the last post title for each forum now.

Dustin

26th July 2001, 10:15

Pretty great stuff! Just noticed that you lost the colored members at the bottom though. They are all black again.

dnar

26th July 2001, 10:18

Phil, the URL on those Last Topic's don't work though...

Just my 0.02, the size of the front page is now so big, It does not fit on my screen.....I have to scoll to see the whole page.

phil

26th July 2001, 10:23

Originally posted by dnar
Phil, the URL on those Last Topic's don't work though...

Just my 0.02, the size of the front page is now so big, It does not fit on my screen.....I have to scoll to see the whole page.

Thanks dnar, I have fixed the links. As for the front page, I have tested at 1024x768 and it fits OK...I thought you were running 1600x1200?

Dustin

26th July 2001, 10:25

The colored members are back, it was just for a couple minutes.

phil

26th July 2001, 10:30

Originally posted by Dustin
The colored members are back, it was just for a couple minutes.

Yeah, I noticed that straight away. I was using a local copy of one of the .PHP files (which hadn't been modified) and just uploaded it after my mods. I forgot that I had modified the one I was using on the server and replaced it :rolleyes: Doh!

dnar

26th July 2001, 11:33

Originally posted by phil

Thanks dnar, I have fixed the links. As for the front page, I have tested at 1024x768 and it fits OK...I thought you were running 1600x1200?

Yeh I am! But I have a modified user CSS to increase the font sizes for readability! :D

phil

26th July 2001, 11:42

Originally posted by dnar

Yeh I am! But I have a modified user CSS to increase the font sizes for readability! :D

LOL, I hope your scroll button is working...I have just added a world time table to the front page. This will be useful when I add a chat function to the BB.

dnar

26th July 2001, 11:48

LOL! Bring on the bells-and-whistles! When did you add the "goto first unread post" function? Thats cool! (or has it always been there, under my nose....)

Phil, can you make the "view new posts" selections go directly to the first unread posts rather than the first page of the thread?

dnar

26th July 2001, 12:27

Phil, I like the world time feature on the front page, takes the guess work out of it! You know what would be really cool, is to show the current time for each member underneath their avitar.... But I guess vB does not allow that..... :D

phil

26th July 2001, 12:57

Originally posted by dnar
Phil, I like the world time feature on the front page, takes the guess work out of it! You know what would be really cool, is to show the current time for each member underneath their avitar.... But I guess vB does not allow that..... :D

Thanks dnar, I will try to figure out how to add each members local time next to their avatar. BTW, a basic chatroom is working...check the button links :D I will try for something a little more sophisticated later :)

Bruce

26th July 2001, 13:09

Have we always been posting in italac? At least here, the italic switch [ - I - ] doesn't work because nothing changes.

At the old sdl bb, the font used in the compose window was italic, just like here, but not once you submitted. You could see the straight vs. italic when you did a preview, by showing it in the published font.

phil

26th July 2001, 13:14

Is this in italic?

It works for me :D ....use [i ] and [/i ] (remove the spaces between the brakets). HTH :)

Chas

26th July 2001, 13:36

Well the Chat room works
me and mr Baker and Phil till his wife caught him had a chat will be great when we all meet up, as long as Siggy and Dnar let other people get a word in :D :D

Bruce

26th July 2001, 14:25

Originally posted by phil
Is this in italic?
It works for me :D ....use [i ] and [/i ] (remove the spaces between the brakets). HTH :)

Yes it is. And I can't see a visible difference between THIS and THIS , which was my original point.

(IE 5.5 SP1, but I'll go try NS and Opera on other machines, just in case it's some setting here.)

CORRECTION TO MY EARLIER POST:
It wasn't on sdl that it worked, it was on hardforum. . . . And it still does work. (You don't have to actually post, just preview; they're the same.)

Alfred Das

26th July 2001, 17:40

Originally posted by phil
I have just added a world time table to the front page. This will be useful when I add a chat function to the BB.

Useful!!!

But, are sure it is correct? F.i., I see Amsterdam in the same timezone as London, which isn't right. CET*=BST+1 (currently due to summer's time-savings BST*=GMT+1).

* (CET - Central European Time; Amsterdam/Paris/Madrid/Rome/Munich/Stockholm a.o.)
* (BST - British Standard Time is normally equal to GMT, except during the time-savings period.)

The table on the BB says it's currently 22:40 for me even though it *is* 23:40.

Cheers! A:\

siggy

26th July 2001, 21:27

Originally posted by phil

Yeah, I noticed that straight away. I was using a local copy of one of the .PHP files (which hadn't been modified) and just uploaded it after my mods. I forgot that I had modified the one I was using on the server and replaced it :rolleyes: Doh!

What happened to the cool icons on the top?

siggy

26th July 2001, 21:29

Originally posted by Chas
Well the Chat room works
me and mr Baker and Phil till his wife caught him had a chat will be great when we all meet up, as long as Siggy and Dnar let other people get a word in :D :D

LOL. Good one Chas.....:D

siggy

26th July 2001, 21:31

phil

27th July 2001, 09:45

Originally posted by Alfred Das

Useful!!!

But, are sure it is correct? F.i., I see Amsterdam in the same timezone as London, which isn't right. CET*=BST+1 (currently due to summer's time-savings BST*=GMT+1).

* (CET - Central European Time; Amsterdam/Paris/Madrid/Rome/Munich/Stockholm a.o.)
* (BST - British Standard Time is normally equal to GMT, except during the time-savings period.)

The table on the BB says it's currently 22:40 for me even though it *is* 23:40.

Cheers! A:\

The times are right in relation to GMT. The countries that are observing a daylight saving time have not been adjusted except I added London (British Summer Time) which is GMT +1. Your adjusted time is under the world time table and it says "The Time now is ..." and this can be adjusted from within your user profile.

Amsterdam's time is usually GMT +1 (which is what it says in the world time table) but they are also observing a daylight savings time, so it really is GMT +2 at the moment. Hope this clears up the confusion.

Alfred Das

27th July 2001, 09:57

Originally posted by phil
The times are right in relation to GMT. The countries that are observing a daylight saving time have not been adjusted except I added London (British Summer Time) which is GMT +1. Your adjusted time is under the world time table and it says "The Time now is ..." and this can be adjusted from within your user profile.

Amsterdam's time is usually GMT +1 (which is what it says in the world time table) but they are also observing a daylight savings time, so it really is GMT +2 at the moment. Hope this clears up the confusion. Ah ok, makes sense (mostly). I'll adjust the prefs. But why adding London to GMT+1? Why not simply remove it and, if possible, add a general caption line like 'time savings are not taken into account'.

As I said, I like the feature.

phil

27th July 2001, 10:07

Originally posted by Alfred Das
Ah ok, makes sense (mostly). I'll adjust the prefs. But why adding London to GMT+1? Why not simply remove it and, if possible, add a general caption line like 'time savings are not taken into account'.

As I said, I like the feature.

Done :D

dnar

27th July 2001, 11:54

Phil, just a thought, is it possible to configure a "mark all posts read" button on the "view unread posts" results page?

Alfred Das

27th July 2001, 15:23

Originally posted by phil
Done :D Gr8.

Damn the board is looking slick!!!

The only thing hard to read is the "Contact Us - The Genome Collective" links at the bottom of the pages. Try the green from the logo for that, see how it looks. Nifty re-use of the logo's orange throughout!

A:\

pelligrini

27th July 2001, 22:48

Phil, is there a way to put another set of buttons at the bottom of the page?

dnar

27th July 2001, 23:33

Phil, just noticed we have lost the "Active users" link on the forn tpage. I guess this was a result of changing the forum over last night for the new colours. :)

dnar

28th July 2001, 02:30

Cool! :cool: I just realized the "Main Category" page does not have the "last topic" feature, so this page fits on one screen! :D

phil

23rd August 2001, 15:40

Recent changes:

Nifty page buttons (Java) at top left and bottom left on threads with multiple posts.

I have also just changed quite a bit of the code to use style sheets rather than html. This will save bandwidth and should make the BB faster.

Navigation buttons at the bottom at the suggestion of Pelligrini.

A "mark all threads read / login" link at the top of the front page as well as the bottom.

Animated folder icons in each of the forums for no reason at all :eek:

Removed the "main catagory" page as it was confusing people.

Moderator listings on front page removed to make it look less clutered.

Phew, an admins life is a pain :rolleyes: (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.harling/images/adminspotting.gif)

Jodie

23rd August 2001, 16:32

had to print that one out... THANKS! ;)

Martyn

23rd August 2001, 17:34

Originally posted by siggy

Why does it show that we have more members on then the members that are listed. Is it possible to be in stealth mode without being a guest?

There are currently 6 members and 1 guests on the boards. | Most users ever online was 21 on 07-13-2001 at 14:34.
LBaker, siggy, Yo_Mama

Yes siggs, members can choose not to have their names show on the list, by selecting that option in their user profile. If you lurk the boards long enough, you may be able to work out which members are in "stealth" mode. The admin can see everyone though!

Martyn

23rd August 2001, 17:36

Originally posted by phil
Recent changes:

Nifty page buttons (Java) at top left and bottom left on threads with multiple posts.

I have also just changed quite a bit of the code to use style sheets rather than html. This will save bandwidth and should make the BB faster.

Navigation buttons at the bottom at the suggestion of Pelligrini.

A "mark all threads read / login" link at the top of the front page as well as the bottom.

Animated folder icons in each of the forums for no reason at all :eek:

Removed the "main catagory" page as it was confusing people.

Moderator listings on front page removed to make it look less clutered.

Phew, an admins life is a pain :rolleyes: (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.harling/images/adminspotting.gif)

Great work Phil, well done :D

pelligrini

23rd August 2001, 19:48

Originally posted by phil
Recent changes:
I have also just changed quite a bit of the code to use style sheets rather than html. This will save bandwidth and should make the BB faster.

Navigation buttons at the bottom at the suggestion of Pelligrini.
Phew, an admins life is a pain :rolleyes: (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.harling/images/adminspotting.gif)
Great work Phil.
I love the buttons at the bottom, I use the Home button all the time, sure makes it easy when the bottom of a page is reached.

Everything looks great except... The smaller text in bold is hard to read at high resolutions, like at 1280, and really hard at 1600.

MechCD

23rd August 2001, 20:50

Couldn't you up the font size in your browser?

Phil, maybe you could adda font size option in the User CP

phil

24th August 2001, 01:25

Originally posted by pelligrini

Everything looks great except... The smaller text in bold is hard to read at high resolutions, like at 1280, and really hard at 1600.

I have changed the small txt from 10 to 11px. Is this any better? Would you like it bigger (12px)? The only problem I can see with this is the people using lower resolutions. It may make the BB overly large.

Thanks to everyone for the kind words....it kinda makes it worthwhile having a reason for no social life :D

siggy

24th August 2001, 07:01

I thought it looked bigger. But I thought it was just too early in the morning. Glad you mentioned it in the thread. Now I know I am not going crazy. I do use a lower resolution and it is not causing a problem.

Thanks Phil.:)

Alfred Das

24th August 2001, 08:20

Phil, what is the "Style:" bit under the users posting details for?
Now it looks as if we all got no style. <G>

A:

pelligrini

24th August 2001, 08:48

Originally posted by phil
I have changed the small txt from 10 to 11px. Is this any better? Would you like it bigger (12px)? The only problem I can see with this is the people using lower resolutions. It may make the BB overly large.

Thanks to everyone for the kind words....it kinda makes it worthwhile having a reason for no social life :D
The 1pt made a big difference. Even with the 10pt the regular small text was ok, but the bold was hard to read. It wasn't that big of a deal, even though it was hard to read, I could recogonize the names because I know them.

phil

24th August 2001, 09:16

Cool, I'll leave it like that then :)

Alfred, the style: bit identifies which custom style people have chosen from within their profile....this still needs fixing from the upgrade :rolleyes: I am working on a new style and it should hopefully have the WinXP look. At the moment it is not finished and in my opinion is very loud...sunglasses are advised until it is finished :cool:

MechCD

24th August 2001, 09:40

WinXp baaaaad. Oh wait, some peeps might like it :D

Dum dee dee dum dee har har

How bout a gnome style? No KDE though.

Brushed metal theme for Sawfish?

How do ya make these things?

EDIT: COrrection on Sawmill, due to copyrights it has to be called Sawfish from now on (since new version came out)