Just a quick port from the 6.2 version..
Please note that I haven't had permission to port this hack, and if anyone involved with the hack wishes me to take down the zip file, please let me know.

Name: News Fader

Description: Places a category at the top of your Forum Summary which is only used for News. Several peices of news can be placed and they will fade on to each other.

Demo: http://www.caso.co.uk/uo/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

Link: ZIP File

Requirements: UBB™ 6.3.0, Valid UBB.classicTM License

I think ubb_forum_summary.cgi part should be:[code][/code]

Zip updated with LK's 'stuff'

Is there any way I can make this smaller? Less wide? It works very well! TY!

In your CP under Fader Settings I believe it is you can set the width.

That's what I thought, but it doesn't change the width of the actual Forum, rather the typing I think.... Unless it's supposed to, then there might be an error.

The width is determined by your board width, the width that can be assigned if the width of the text only.

The width of the tables are defined in Style Templates. I believe the News Fader should just match the table width you specify..

I installed in my forum, but i use JC Template and it was not right, you can to help me?
link : http://www.expertsteam.com/forum/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

What do you want to change?

The News Fader this not in the correct place.
He is below of where it has "FORUM" "TOPICS"... and it must be above of this.

I have the JC templates but I removed that line your talking about. Did you place the fader code right after "sub Normal_Table_Top {" in public_forum_summary.pl?

I seem to remember something about it being after the "end mods column" and that would have the effect that you're seeing. I don't have the code in from of me so I can't be sure...anyone else?

News Fader shifted the width of the individual columns on my board. Is there a way to set column widths?

Can someone give me the new URl to the zip file? because i cant get to this one

me too
thx

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I have the JC templates but I removed that line your talking about. Did you place the fader code right after "sub Normal_Table_Top {" in public_forum_summary.pl?
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I did that and somehow it gets screwed up with the JC public_forum_summary.

Can you show us how you did it at yours TheX

Is there another source for this zip? I'm getting a file not found.

the links dont work

can you fix please also why cant i find text versions becuse i cant seem to find the hack file software ??

tnx

i cant find the file page not found

Can someone post a download link to this please? I'd like to use this hack, but the link above is dead.

Here is the News Fader (in Multihack form) for 6.3.1. Click here to download and let me know if you have any problems

I have this same problem. Does anyone know how to correct it?

I have this same problem. Does anyone know how to correct it?<hr /></blockquote>Me too! I want mine to appear where Netwerkin's is. HELP!

The hack works great on our V6.3.1.1 UBB except for this.......

Edit: Grab this text file and good luck. I promise nothing but it only modifies one file and this is exactly how I did it at Netwerkin.

Click me .

Thanks for posting that but unfortunately we don't use the JCTemplates.

Anyone have a fix for standard templates?

Your forum look at Netwerkin is amazing!

Try placing the newsfader code right after this

Just installed this hack and while it works fine and dandy, I'm having a couple of aesthetic problems.

You can see it on our boards, here .

Issue #1) I realize that you can set the width of the news fader. We have our boards width set to 660 in the control panel, yet if I set the width of the news fader to be anything above about 530, it makes the width of our boards wider. However, if I made it less than about 550, our text messages break onto the next line. Any ideas on why this is the case? Is it because of the layout I set up for the boards in the header and footer? (It's all in a larger table)

Issue #2) There's extra space underneath the fading headlines. It looks like a paragraph break, but I didn't see one in the source code anywhere. I also thought fade.gif being 640x50 might be part of the problem, so I set it to a shorter and narrower size, but that didn't do anything either. What accounts for this extra space?

I'm stumped on this one, so any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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Edited to add that I've played around with a couple things, and realize that when it starts off, the cell is one line high, but as soon as it shows my boards statistics, it goes to the height with the extra spacing. In case that helps.

Well at this point in time, I've solved issue #1 in my above post, but not #2. Anyone have any idea why there's extra space under our fader messages, in that same cell? Even setting the fader.gif height to 25px (instead of 50px) didn't help. And the extra height is driving up looney. Hope someone has an idea! Thanks guys!

And look for height="49" (that's the default box height) change that "49" to like 30 or something. My boards New Fader is set to 20 or 25 i think, look -->( Planethex UBB Forums )

I think that's what you are asking - yes?

Hope I helped.

Thanks Cuzz. Unfortunately, I tried that and it didn't seem to help. I've currently got height="20" in that part of public_forum_summary.pl, and even went down to 0px. All that seemed to do was change the height that the little 'jump' in the height directly before the messages appear. I even tried uninstalling it completely and doing it over from scratch. Still the same.

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Edited to add that I scrapped it and jiggered my own solution which works pretty well for us.

me three

Will some one make a multihack file for 6.3.1.2 Plz Just can not seem to get it to work right with the jc's... THANKS!!!

I don't use JC, but here is my working mhp that I have on 6.3.1.2
http://ubbhacks.turboford.org/newsfader6312.mhp

No amount of tinkering with the HEIGHT settings seem to change the table height for me, and in the CP, it only shows a blank line where I figure it should say "News Fader"...

instead of just before this

<hr /></blockquote>When I tried using this code mod, The NewsFader did not show up for me... Any other thoughts?

Does this hack work with the new 6.4 version?

I'll update the hack soon which should work with 6.4 and fix a lot of the problems you're all having..

Give me a few weeks..

cool thanks

Im on like the 3rd step of this hack, and in the cp_common.pl file it says to find this:
document.writeln("<option value=$vars_config{CGIURL}/cp.cgi?ubb=vars_mod&r=$ran> - Moderator Settings</option>");

HOWEVER, that line is not in my cp_common.pl file.. Im using UBB 6.3.1. Thanks!!!!

Yes, cp_common.pl changed in 6.3.1 onwards..

Instead, find this:

For those of you only wanting 1 line of text at a time, I just found a great fix...

Open: public_forum_summary.pl

Look for FDRboxHgt = 43; -- set number lower (I'm using 15)

Look for height="49" -- again, I'm using 15.

I know the 2nd line has been mentioned previously, but I have not seen where the first has been... I had immediately changed the 2nd line when I installed the hack, but untill I also reduced the 1st number, nothing changed.


* Now, if I can just figure out how in the hell the get the NewsFader on top of the box that says FORUM - TOPICS - POSTS - Etc... I'll be ecstatic! [ ]