Another trick to the newlighttable and newdarktable.
Open up your favorite image editor (I use Fireworks MX).
Make a rectangle and give it the same fill color as darktable.
Edit the fill color and bring up a slider to adjust the color. Move the slider down a few "notches" until you have something a little lighter than the darktable color (you may have to go the other way if darktable is too light). Note the ASCI code for the color you just created (it will be your newdarktable).
Repeat the process, only this time start out with the lighttable color as your fill. This one will be newlighttable
You now have two new colors to use for newdark and newlight table that won't clash with the existing light and dark table colors.
Sometimes I'll make multiple rectangles and I'll leave the light and dark tables next to their new counterparts so I can compare the difference in the colors before I commit changes to the style sheet.
IM me tomorrow. I have some links to plug ins for FireWorks on my laptop to pass to you
Nevermind, I got called into work tonight (so I won't be in the office during the day tomorrow).
Check out Project Fireworks and especialy the Harmonia Plug In. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I think Harmonia would be perfect when it comes to choosing the colors for a style sheet.
Almost everyone on the Honorable Players forums hated the background highlighting for notification of new posts. I've disabled that, and for the mean-time, settled on italicizing new posts.
However, many people, including myself, are missing the simple functionality of new posts having the icon color changed. Is this gone from UBB.Threads entirely, or is something just wrong? I've checked permissions, and I've manually checked the actual image files, with the default yellow icons, and the orange icons in the "newicons" directory. Everything appears to be correct, but for some reason, none of the yellow icons every turn orange now on 6.2.1.
What's wrong, or how can I get the "old" new post notification method back?
It got in the way of people adding custom icons. Before... if you wanted to add new post icons, you had to have a yellow and an orange version. Now you only need one.
The orange icons (in /images/newicons) shouldn't have been included in the distribution. That was just an oversight and I belive they have been deleted from 6.2.2 as they are not used.
So it's not very possible to go back to the old system. People have posted about it here... but it'd be a major project.
LoL I was down to the point where everything looked like it had heat rising up in front of it as seen on a long stretch of highway in the afternoon. When this happens I know it's time for some sleep. I got 3 hours and am good to go... LOL
Additionally, you don't have to actually move the newicons directory - instead of the relative URL being newicons/$icon, prepend ../ to that, so with icons and newicons both being in the images directory (per installation default prior to 6.2.2) it'll work.
[]JustDave said: I just had to test this and yes it indeed does work. Thanks for the tip. [/] As you've already found out, yes, I'm sure it would work. I made the post after redoing the mods on the HP site, as one of our members had already hacked it to do the same thing you did, and I accidentally killed some of that when I upgraded to 6.2.2 and overwrote postlist.php. I thought "Bah, it's a PITA to move all that, I'll just give it a virtual URL/path dropping back one level" and did it, and it worked.
I noticed a bit of an error when using this hack... your legend on the postlist page becomes invalid as it was setup to reflect the new post highlighting rather than new post images. To combat this I have attached a text file to this post to detail how to change it. If you have used the ../ method you will need to alter the URL to reflect that, otherwise it should work fine.
I have my stylesheets setup so they look like they did before the latest update (ie: alternating color bars, no highlighting for new posts). This hack will make the legend valid whether you use highlighting or not.
It worked for me anyway, let me know if I messed up anywhere.
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