Original Author: Slurpee

Ported to 6.4 by Gizzy (Gizmo@undergroundnews.com).

Description: This modification will impliment a "News Fader" feature on your UBB install.

Requirements: Valid license, UBB™ 6.4.0.

Download: Zip

Demo: UGN Security

Cool been waiting for this

But 1/2 way through editing when I come to

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### in: public_forum_summary.pl ###
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# Find: #
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$Top .= '';


This is not in JCT's templates ?

Do you have the JC hack ?

Thanks

slev

I honestly have no clue, I don't use the JCTemplates.

For JCT's templates use this instead

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### in: public_forum_summary.pl ###
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# Find: #
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} # end mods column

$Top .= qq~~;

Sounds about right.

Very nice mod.

But it hosed down the chat mod - it vanished !

lol D:

I dunno, I'm running the Chat Mod and the News Fader. They interact just fine!

Here too ; after we did the chat hack again.
Very nice hack

I installed the modificaiton and it displays the news fader box and the control panel option aappear but nothing appears in the fader's box? Any ideas?

Did you upload fader.js to your non cgi directory? Do you have the "Time Modification" installed? If you have the "Time Modification" installed have you added the line to make it compatable with the fader?

Yes fader.js is in my non-cgi folder. Not sure what teh time modification is though, so I would say nope not installed

Here's a fix for JC Templates, it will stick the fader above the Forum/Topic/Post/Moderators etc.

This fix is assuming you have not hacked the file yet.

[code][/code]

Gizzy, I am having the same problem as 1QuickSI with regards to the blank content; however, I am getting successive script errors. It doesn't matter which browser I try this from, I keep starting with "FDRmaxLoops is not defined".

I force the definition in the fader.js file and it comes up with a weird error of "Object expected at line 58, character 1 in ultimatebb.cgi". As near as I can figure, this is referring to a GetTime() function call within the fader.js file itself. I comment that out and then I start getting object undefined again for FDRlnkDev(? I think thats what it was). Whatever it was, I couldn't find a reference of it in any of the files that were modified by this hack.

Sad part is, the first time I installed this on my test system, it worked perfectly. I installed it on the live system under the exact same conditions, and it doesn't work. Went back to the test system, and it no longer works.

I'm installing this on 6.5 in about 30 minutes EXACTLY how I've stated in the instructions. If anything is "off" I'll be updating the script, but as I had stated before I have no clue what your problems are since I have had it running smoothly on 7 6.4 boards.

Ok, I've installed this modification on 6.5 without any problems.

There is however a script problem with 6.5 that I'm not sure how to work out. It doesn't seem to want to list the total topics or posts which is sort of puzzling, does anyone have any input?

And yes, that is the ONLY error that I had recieved... You can see my test board at:
http://www.promodtecnologies.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi

Thankyou for the credit of my previous port, much appreciated.. You should however be giving credit to others that have also been involved with the hack's past. LK is one of a few that come to mind.

Regards,
Oblivion Knight.

Hi,

This hack works with netscape 7.0 ?

Thanks,

Carlos

It should work just fine... Try viewing the demo one at http://www.undergroundnews.com

Hi,

Thanks Gizzy, but with Netscape 7.0 PC & Mac I dont see the News Fader but with IE6 perfect.

then i suppose the code is IE specific :-x...

Unfortunately the News Fader script was never compatible to Net and Mozilla if I remembered correctly. I don't know about Opera. It's a great script, but would be even better if it were compliant across browsers.

I've implemented News Fader on 6.5 w/o problems. I have a minor comment about the Forum Summary page formatting that results.

The News Fader appears below the column titles for the forum summary table. I think the page would look better if the Fader appeared above the titles. I thought I could see the spot in public_forum_summary.pl where the "News Fader Stuff" should go, but I get an error. Here's what I did:

I put the code from:
This is puzzling because I didn't change that section of code. Any suggestions?

question. how can i get the news fadar "bar" to be smaller in height. Mine is sorta tall and has lot of empty space.. look here to see what I mean.
http://www.reakhavok.com/hack3rz/ubb.html

what do i need to change in order to have that smaller.
thanks

In public_forum_summary.pl, look for FDRboxHgt = 43;

I set mine to 29. That's about two lines high.

Hi,

what have I to do, to get the Newsfader above the line: Forums, Topis, Posts, Moderator....

Pleas can someone help me...

Thanks
d-talk

Same problem Gizzy, the site is still Block

any one can upload the file and give us the link ?

Weird Al I need your help again

https://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/upload/00020028/NewsFader6.4.x.zip

Thank you Weird Al

Guyz,

I can't get the vars-mod either

http://www.undergroundnews.com/ubb%20mods/modwordlets.zip

Block site problem :rolleyes:

any help

https://www.ubbdev.com/db/uploads/mod_wordlets631.zip

Thank you

Wow, al, you're so... fast! lol...

Same problem with me!

Any chance of News Fader coming to 6.6 anytime soon?

Same problem with me!

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https://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/upload/00020028/Newsfaderupdateontop.txt

I'm on 6.6 so I can't test it, would someone be willing to try? Remember to backup your public_forum_summary.pl before you try this