I understand that a line return separates the individual messages. For some reason last night, a line return was not separating individual messages.
Anyhow, I made the adjustment to public_forum_summary.pl, double-checked and reuploaded all the hacked files to make sure everything was done right. Checked permissions, went into CP, cleared the forum summary cache, closed my browser and opened a fresh browser window, and went to my test board.
The text is now visible! The fader is very close to working perfectly, but I see two more abnormalities--
First, once the fader begins to display the news fader text, its adding a blank line message between my individual messages. In other words, if my CP news fader text reads:
quote:
This is a test
Of the emergency broadcast system
then my fader does this:
quote:
[qb]This is a test
---pause for a moment---
(blank line with no words)
---pause for a moment---
Of the emergency broadcast system
---pause for a moment---
(blank line with no words)
---pause for a moment---[/qb]
The second abnormality that I noticed, which is fairly insignificant, is that while the words, "Total Posts" and "Total Topics" fade out, the actual values adjacent them do not fade out, but rather stick around until the words fade out and then disappear. Like I said, this is minor but I figured I'd mention it anyhow.