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Hrm, I will reload this tonight when i get off work in a couple of hours. That would be grand if it was just a color error  . I still do want to get this working as i would like to see a cross-browser fader for once on ubb 
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I'd like it if it faded  ... hopefully functioning like the original did for IE ..
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Originally posted by Gizzy: I'd like it if it faded ... hopefully functioning like the original did for IE .. That would be great.
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smartalecs  It wasn't really helpful to install it on my testboard to see it working great on mozilla 1.6 and IE6. : Nate: Could i have you replace (in public_forum_summary.pl) 'var tcolor = "$vars_style{CategoryStripColor}";' to 'var tcolor = "$vars_style{CategoryStripTextColor}";' ? You'll also have to clear the forum summary cache. When i tested it, i was using the default colors. So i may need to create a new variable to insert the faded color too... Also, line returns in the news fader text indicate individual messages. The only way to have an actual line return is too put the tag in.
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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.
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ok, i see. making progress  How about replacing the read_news sub in ubb_forum_summary.cgi with this sub ReadNews {
my @news = split (/n/, $vars_news_fader{nftext});
my $chr = chr(13);
foreach (0.. $#news) {
$news[$_] = &strip_lead_trail_space($news[$_]);
next if($news[$_] eq '');
$news[$_] =~ s/(<img src=")(.+?)(" border="0")(>)/$1$2$3 /$4/isg;
$news[$_] = &Smilies($news[$_]);
$news[$_] = &UBBCode($news[$_]);
$news[$_] =~ s/(<img border="0" title="" alt=".+?" src=")(.+?)(" />)/$1$vars_config{NonCGIURL}/$2$3/isg;
$news[$_] =~ s/(<img border="0" alt=".+?" title="" src=")(graemlins/.+?)(" />)/$1$vars_config{NonCGIURL}/$2$3/isg;
$news[$_] =~ s/"/\"/isg;
$news[$_] =~ s/$chr//isg;
$the_page .= ($#news == $_) ? qq~"$news[$_]", ""~ : qq~"$news[$_]",n~;
}
}I saw what you were talking about, and this should clear it up.
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I made the change, reuploaded, cleared caches, etc.
Still no improvement; still posts a blank line in between individual messages, sorry.
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I think I'm seeing what Nate is seeing ... or, rather, not seeing. After I enter a topic to the fader, it acts as if there is another message--albeit it, invisible. A little quirk--one that I can live with for now--since the fader is fading and not *resizing* itself like it did before!
Sue
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I went to your test board ADWOFF, and saw the problem. I was able to, what it looks like, patch the problem by changing in public_forum_summary.pl the bcolor, and tcolor parts to this: var bcolor = "$vars_style{AltColumnColor1}";
var tcolor = "$vars_style{CategoryStripTextColor}";
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Hmmm... no dice-- problem persists.
I wish I knew more perl and javascript; I've been taking a look at it myself but I'm afraid I won't be of much help until I learn more.
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The problem is occuring where cp2_newsfader.pl writes the newsfader text to the vars file. If you look at vars_news_fader, there are two carriage returns at the end of each line instead of one. I'm not sure why it does this, but perhaps a patch like this might work: In ubb_forum_summary.cgi, change sub ReadNews {
my @news = split (/n/, $vars_news_fader{nftext});
my $chr = chr(13); to sub ReadNews {
my @news = split (/nn/, $vars_news_fader{nftext});
my $chr = chr(13); I would try it myself, but I have since upgraded to 6.7. Any plans to port this to 6.7?
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This should work fine with 6.7
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I have this installed at my site, but the *delay* between the news events listed is significant.
Is there any way of fixing this?
(Yes, I tried playing with the amount of time between events, and that didn't seem to have any factor in changing the speed.)
Sue
adwoff.com
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I don't know how to fix it, but I can show you where the problem is:
Open up a copy of your vars_news_fader.cgi, and look at nftext-- see how it has entered a double carriage return at the end of each line? This hack needs to be re-worked so that it only enters a single carriage return, and then the amount of time between events will work properly.
I know some perl, but not enough to be able to spot what's causing this to happen. Good luck!
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As a work-around, I simply elected to reduce the event time to 1 second, and chose not to leave the "greeting" field blank in the CP->News Fader Additionally, if the 1 second setting is still too ong for you (actually about 2 seconds), you can always go into the code in public_forum_summary.pl and changed this code: <script language="JavaScript1.2" type="text/javascript">
<!--
var delay = parseInt('$vars_news_fader{nfspan}') * 1000; Change 1000 to what you need to make it right... 1000 milliseconds is default... If ou cut it down to 500, then you'll be right at one second total... Also, if I jump in here: <td width="100%" height="49" align="$vars_news_fader{nfalign}">and change the "height" value to 32, I get exactly two lines of text without the cell visibly "growing".... This is especially useful when folks pop up a "less than maximized" window (width), and causes even the shorter headlines to double up. Also... The var tcolor = "$vars_style{CategoryStripColor}";still hasn't been changed to: var tcolor = "$vars_style{CategoryStripTextColor}";yet in the download file in the first post. I think that's all I had to change. I like this hack... Here's my board if you want to see it: TurboFord.org PS - I am using the fader.js in Brett's zip, and it seems to be working fine.
Clay Autery
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Also... when/if new work is done on this hack, it'd be an AWESOME idea in my opinion to add an "optional" FIND/ADD instruction such that you could have the News Fader appear in the Forum level...
I'm assuming, since to get it on the Forum Summary level requires the code hack to public_forum_summary.pl, that to get the fader to appear at the top of each forum, some code would need to be added/changed in public_forum.pl
Why?
Well, a LOT of my readers don't enter the board via the Forums Summary page... I have a LOT of regulars who are linked directly to their favorite forum...
If I use the Fader to put out important info, then these guys miss it a lot of times.
Thanks!
Clay Autery
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Works great
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Hey all, It's me again. In my News Fader it seems to be displaying twice the number of posts and topics when it displays total posts and topics than what it really on the board. OK, not sure what is screwed up here, but I also just noticed that FSUM status was reporting double the total counts as well. Statistics seems to be the only thing reading the true count. Help please? Thanks again...
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Any chance at getting this one looked at please?
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"Pain is temporary, Pride is forever"
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uh... remove the code you added to to ubb_forum_summary.cgi for the status mod.
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Yep, that fixed it. Much appreciation Al.
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It seems any html in the text line to be displayed causes the fade part to fail and the text just appears.
That's why the topic totals just jump on and off - they have a separate font statement.
I removed the < from the front of a link and it faded ok.
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Runs in 6.7.1 just in case anyone was wondering with 1 minor exception. There seems to be a transition period (default of 6 seconds) where the news window is blank.
I tried changing the timeout to 2 seconds and the system information transitions OK now but the stuff I configure (with the ENTER as a separator) still puts in a 6 second delay between news items.
Any thoughts?
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Works well in 6.7.2, thanks I've got a mhp if anyone is interested
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Instead of having this display in the public-forums_summary would it be possible to have it display in each physical forum instead?
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hmmm... you could probably just remove "_summary" from the install
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Ok so public_forum_page.pl Ideas of where to add the text and would it be the same as shown in the install docs?
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prolly not, but I'm sure someone who knew what they were doing could do it no problem. In order to save, will do it later tonight or tomorrow night
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I installed the newsfader and it is working but it isn't fading properly and sometimes I have to 'submit changes' in the cp about 5-6 times before it takes effect (yes, I cleared the cache).
I tried installed the fader.js from the 6.4 version but then it doesn't work at all.
Could someone please tell me what it is I need to do to make the fading work properly instead of the sporadic manner in which it is working now?
It fades in (but never to full white) and then all of a sudden disappears.
I've read through all 8 pages but I must have missed something because I still can't get it to function.
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Hello everyone, can someone help me? News Fader Hack brakes all my tables.... My Board: http://www.f1-board.com Thanks d-talk
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