UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6 MultiHack Mods [6.0x] News Fader V2.1 Hack!

Slurp,

Ok. Thanks. You were greatly appreciated on this. And again, thanks for the Hack. It is great!


GimmeTech

Ok man, sorry. If you get, let me know what you did.

Slurp,

I cannot for the life of me get it. I've tried my little html tricks, pulled the code from the page and tried manipulating the tags, I don't know what else to do. I know it can be done. I really don't want to mess with the table size anymore I have it looking sharp at 25. If I could just get the text to valign in the middle for the 3 items I would be one happy camper. Well, I'm happy any way but I would be ecstatic. Please dedicate your every waking moment to my needs.

GimmeTech GimmeTech Forums

Thanks Slurp,
GimmeTech

Homeboy let me look at some code after my lunch and I'll see what I can come up with, and maybe some more suggestions for you. Ok?

Yes Master of 'ol News Fader. I wait for thee and appreciate thee precious moments.

LOL
GimmeTech

All right man, I found the way to do it, I think. I found this board that had it centered and here's how they did, check the source if you want.

Look for this line in public_fourm_summary.pl:

FDRboxPad = 0;

Now change that 0 to whatever you want, I would guess about 7 or 8 would be in the middle. Now keep in mind that width of the fader is only 43, so if you have more than two lines of text it's gonna cut off, so you might want to change those instances of height=43 to something else or change the font size here:

FDRfntSiz = "9pt";

It's up to you man, but that should get ya pretty close.

Ahhhh, No way. Not that easy? I'll go try it and and post to what I come up with.


Thanks Slurp.
GimmeTech

Oh Yes, the Slurp man.

"It's just like an athlon, The knowledge of what trace contacts to connect with pencil lead for the ultimate O/C!"

That was it.
Recap:

For all who are looking, if you are having a hard time getting your text to center or align middle vertical. The place to do it is here. You don't even have to mess with the code nor will it work well if you do.

My fader table size is 25. I set the

FDRboxPad = 6; (Default is 0 or aligns to top)

I missed this altogether. I was trying to tackle this through the code.

Thanks Slurp!
Check out the fader now...... GimmeTech Forums

GimmeTech is H :Dppy

Bingo! Looks good man.

I've installed it now on my UBB - look:

BoardHell

It's a great hack and I like it alot. But unfortunately it seems to work only with IE. The news don't show up with NS6 - is this only for me or has anybody encountered the same problem??? Opposite to previous posts it works perfectly with my IE5.5

PS: Forgot to mention the Board is in German, but I think you don't need to understand German to see that it doesnt work under NS 6 *g*

I definitely feel like I'm in the gates of hell in your forums.
No Kidding aside, they look great. Your news fader seems to work great with my IE5.5 too. No problems. NetScape 6 sucks anyhow. Don't worry about it. I found so many idiosyncreses with NS6 and IE5.5 that I gave up trying to get everything to work with both. The fact is Netscape was never a Java compatible browser. I have a java chat room called Volano Chat. Netscape won't even work with that. The stats are that 90 percent use IE. The other 10 percent are divided between NS and the other browsers. So 10percent or less cannot view your news fader. No loss. It's not that I'm a huge fan of Microsoft or anything, but NetScape was never in the market. To many script reading probs amoungst other things.

Thanx for the hack!!!!
You have great docs, even with the updates, you make life easy!!!!

Keep up the good work man!

to Slurpee,
for more understandable - please put the date for new version update....

Slurpee - Excellent Hack. All works fine Here.

How do I reduce the hight of the display panel?

Thanks

How do I get the
forum/topics/post/last post/moderators bar
underneath the fader instead of on top?

I have read the posts on this but I'm still not able to get it moved. Using version 2.0 and everything else it working great!

TIA

Hmmm haven't tried it, but in public_forums_summary.pl, changing this line:

# this is the table displayed on regular forum pages
my $Top = qq~

to

# this is the table displayed on regular forum pages
my $Top = qq~$newslinefader

See what happens.

As for changing the fader height, look for the two instances of "43" in the public_forums_summary.pl file and change them to whatever width you want.

That worked great! Thx

Excellent.

Slurpee,

Great hack. Got it to work on my forums but for some reason the news doesn't restart after it gets to the last news item. Is this done on purpose or something that I have done wrong? Hope you can help.

AgentX

It should keep rotating 100 times.

Just wondering how to keep the news message in the middle even when i resize the explorer window?
like this one :
http://pub9.ezboard.com/bdekumillennium

Thanks to everyone

Newman

hmmm this seemed not to work for me, it does not show up and in IE the staus bar says "Done, but with errors on page"

The errors listed are:

Line: 30
Char: 1
Error: 'FDmaxLoops' is undefined
Code: 0

and

Line: 3475
Char: 16
Error: Syntax Error
Code: 0

Im using ubb 6.03 with Tovok's Static hack and Total Posts hack, and Active Topics 1.8d on a unix based system.

any help woulod be appciiated..

n/m got it to work =) sorry about that.. small little mistake copying and pasting to public_forum_summary.pl

hmm i have it working its a great hack, but i do have 1 question...my fading news seems to be aligned: valign="top" ...why is it aligned at the very top?

DOH nevermind...sorry agian...

i do have 1 more question (yea yea ur thinkgin jesyus christ just shut up but i was wondering i there was a way to get the fader out of the forum list and on top of it...so that the table above it can be below it...if u know what i mean...

HELP !!!!!
Do you know how to put a gradient in the news
fader hack and who's online hack?

[ April 07, 2001: Message edited by: newman ]

One problem.. well one MAJOR problem!!!

If you have in your news welcome message you have an @ it crashes because it has to have a before the @ coz of CGI and arrays and stuff.

I bet its been said before but imma too busy to check 7 pages

edit: i am a moron...

After a few tried I got the fader working good !

Is there anyway to make the words on the fader bigger ?? Especially the first message which is a welcome message !

Worked like a charm! One install: One success! A thousand thank you's for this hack.

Note: IQ raised from 12 to 19.

I installed this on my test board, and it all seems to be working fine in the control panel, but when you actually look at it, the display is odd.
http://www.3drealms.com/cgi-bin2/ultimatebb.cgi

Shouldn't the news be listed before the columns that say "Forum | Topics | Posts | etc"? It 'works', but is displayed incorrectly. I probably fubared something, but I'll check out my code changes to make sure.

Check this out - it's a screen dump from my implentation of this hack. If you look above my name on the right side of the screen, it appears that some of the code from the fader portion of the screen is bleeding over onto the column for moderators. (Look above Joe3DR). However, it only appears to be happening in Netscape, not in IE.

How to I get my text to be in the center and not alligned at the top ?

i install the news fader but it don´t show any text

ecoeco, did you turn it on?

yes, see my forum http://alaporhay3.virtualave.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

What's wrong with it?

my english isn´t very good, but the news fader doesn´t show any text or news

Here it does (IE 6 PP)