More of a redesign than a hack, but whatever.

Preview:


When can you get this? Right now I'm trying to get it to not look like **** in Netscape. When I get it to look like something decent I'll release it, if anyone else wants it out there. The image above was taken in IE 5.5.

Very nice looking!

yea looks nice!

Finally after a couple of hours of kicking, screaming, and political obscenities directed at Netscapes rendering engine I got this:



That was taken in Mozilla 0.8 or Netscape 6.1. I prefer Mozilla because it doesn't have Netscape branding everywhere. I should have this released by tomorrow.

tight!

very nice indeed.

*kicks, screams and begs MPlayer networks for their UBB licence number*

/me really needs to see the new V6 CP.

*ponders entering random primary mplayer e-mail addresses into the licence code retrieval system*

... could actually work

Here it is, all nice and tidy. Works in both IE and NS. Works wonderfully in NS6 too. Solves that problem. I plan on updating this to add some stuff that might be useful. Whenever I have time. This beta is relatively stable and there should be no problems. I tested it quite a few times today. Always remember to backup files before installing any hack. Ok, I'm done chattering, here you go:

[edit: new version, see below]



[ February 19, 2001: Message edited by: DPK ]

If this gets popular, it's going to cause headaches for any hack that alters the control panel.

Personally, I prefer your way of doing this... IMO the last place you want browser restrictions is the control panel.

(Runs off to tell Charles Capps, who's cursing the dhtml menu since day 1)

Updated, there was a conflict for lower netscape versions. Fixed now.

Download/View CP Menu Design Hack v0.2

I personally like my menu better, I have nothing against infopop, its just that their dhtml menu loads slower, isn't compatible with most browsers, and I dunno, looks a bit funny to me. Download my design mod if you want. Maybe we can convince infopop to use this.

Very Nice Work DPK! I love it!

Alright DPK - I hope you don't mind, but I wanted to tell everyone here at UBB DEV how good you are...everybody already does trust you, but I just wanted to make it more public you are well trusted at NFSCheats and a true mastermind of the CGI scripts.

[ February 20, 2001: Message edited by: HHHawk ]

thanx hawk, but this lil mod is nothing compared to the others out there.

I prefer these so much to the ones that come as standard. It seems to take them ages to respond when I am using them.

Thanks

DPK - You're up too early in the morning.

You are more than welcome, I looked it over several times, and it's a VERY smooth design, way better than the old control panel interface we had.

[ February 20, 2001: Message edited by: HHHawk ]

DPK-- Nice work! I like this better than the current DHTML as well. If you give permission to use it, I will add it to the standard UBB6 code (pending QC checks, of course).

(someone in our support forums pointed me your way)

Ted O'Neill
CEO, Infopop Corporation

Oh, a request by the CEO to incorporate onto official code? Take it!

wow!
This is an honor for you now DPK.
I was honored when my close thread idea was used.
take it! *L*

Welcome to ubbdev, Ted.

Um, whoa! Am I dreaming?


* calming down *

Ted, sure, take it.

* hopes it passes QC *

One small thing, not to be greedy or so forth, by maybe just a small hidden comment in the cgi that says something like:

# CP Menu by DPK - dpk@nfscheats.com

You don't have to though. Legal stuff bothers me, so if you want, just take it. Just knowing that some of my code is in there makes me feel happy enough.

[ February 20, 2001: Message edited by: DPK ]

Congrats, mate. I should try it if it's that good!

Version 0.3 will be released soon, there is a problem with NS4 displaying the menus and I want to clean up the javascript to simplify it a bit.

Ted, I'll make the fixes asap.

I would be happy to add a comment crediting you, DPK (we always do that anyway, by the way). I will be looking into adding this next week.

Thanks!

Version 0.3 released. Bug fixes and rewrite. (It took me 3 days to figure out how to get NS4 to look ok. CSS + NS4 = Bad Mojo). This is what I have so far. I'll probably work on this menu a bit more if I find anything while scanning dev sites to improve it (part of my daily routine). Maybe, maybe not. I think its the best it will be for now.

Ted: Thanx, I appreciate it. =D Ubb rox!

Download/View CP Menu Design Hack v0.3

Nice work DPK, getting your menu's in the coding! And Charles is prolly happier too...

Welcome Ted, I didn't even know you had dropped by...

Does it also work with Opera?

Works in Opera but the background colors don't show up (prolly due to CSS).

q