UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6 MultiHack Mods [6.2x] NewsFader

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It seems to be fine?

but the table width for the actual forum summay is wider than what i set it at.

Change newsfader's width to 400 or something like that in the CP.

Looks like you got the newsfader fixed, you might wanna increase the colspan for your stats by one.

Has no one got any ideas on how I can fix my problem , I used Multihack again and uploaded and still no luck

It's ok I got it working easy now , but my UBB Thinking Clock then Disappeared , the table it's meant to be in is there but not the actual Clock.

BTW if you want a text file wrote for this hack I think I could do it if you wanted.

hi people i was wondering how do i move the fader in the public_forum_summary.pl so that it is under the recent visitors and not in the catorgorie part ???

thanks in advance for any help

I also found that it removed my PM Inbox and my Hypercells . So I am guessing it's messed up Public_forum_summary.pl in some way

I'm guessing that you hacked on an old back-up public_forum_summary.pl

nah , Downloaded it straight from FTP and I don't think I have any other backups guess I will have to rehack a few things that will only take about 15mins

Many people have requested the .txt file and nobody else seems to have obliged.

This is a zip file, containing all the files you need and a .txt file that has been extracted from the Multihack (so if it is hard to follow, don't blame me!!!)

http://www.liberifatali.com/umbrella/ubbhacks/newsfader621.zip

Thanks,
Oblivion Knight

If nobody is gonna help........ (public_forum_summary.pl)
[code][/code]

Nice hack. I used it on previous versions too, and it seems to work fine on 6.2 again

Oblivian Knight... thank you for the txt file... looks do-able... ... will try it out later (too much work to do right now)... thanks again...

Everything looks fine... in the control panel... but nothing is showing up on my board when I turn the fader on... I DO have Thinking Clock installed... and that is still there (I did the adjustment to put fader at the top of my page where the clock is)... I went to make the adjustment to fader.js for Thinking Clock... but... (and here's the embarassing part)... how do I open fader.js???... notepad seriously screws it up!... what program do I use? ... and is the fact that I can't make this adjustment to Thinking Clock the reason that my fader is not showing on my board? ... HELP!!!!

If the whole newsfader line doesn't show up, it's your fault. If it only doesn't show the news, unhack ubb_forum_summary.cgi and hack fader.js by the instructions.

I used Notepad, but if you can't, you can try to use cal's noted .

Aw hell... it's my fault... ... I'll go back and start over again... I feel like that skit on SNL... and I need the guy to come over to me and say... "MOVE...".... {sigh}

Hmmm. I know everyone is going to laugh, but Netscape 6 doesn't work with this hack. Anyone have any ideas? Oh and just another note, Compuserve 7.0 is using Netscape 6 as it's browser now... so I imagine that AOL won't be far behind...

Any help would be appreciated...

thanks,
Jake

I'll be darned.

I just opened my site with Netscape 6.1, and he's right. The news fader doesn't work with it.

Ok... got the fader.js file hacked... (thanks LK and cal for noted... ) ... UN-hacked ubb forum summary ... uploaded... cleared cache... blahblahblah... turned on the fader... ACK!!... some kind of undefined subroutine in the public forum summary.pl on line 348... which is as follows... (lines 346-351)

[code][/code]So what am I doing wrong?

Rehack ubb_forum_summary.cgi, AGAIN

Make sure you hacked before/after like you should.

OMG!!!... it's working!!!... Both the fader AND thinking clock!!... they are WORKING!!... WOOHOO!!!... ... Thanks LK...

Ok... it works... BUT!... there are two small problems... first, when I turn off my fader, my clock goes off too... second... this:

[code][/code]....doesn't work... I end up with neither a fader or a clock... any clues?

got it... ignore above.. (if anyone has this problem make sure that you do this step... it's crucial... )

[code][/code]

So, anyone have a "fix" for our Netscape users? I've gone and told mine to just use IE... unfortunately they don't like that fix.

I would have mentioned the problem sooner, but I just found out about it a couple days ago, when member said, "News Fader? What? Where? There's nothing there!" Hehe I had to install 6.2 Netscape to test myself.

Maybe 5-10% of my board users use Netscape or Mozilla... But, I don't want to leave anyone out.

Thanks!

~Z

any way to put the output of the Newsfader in a seperate table like a sidebar ? Installing a sidebar seems to be simple (found a other thread who describe tihs) but I m not able to move the output of the fader from main table top to the seperate sidebar.

If this can be done would it be possible that the news will displayed all the time and not only while watching the main menus ? This would help to force player to read the text and i can use longer delay times.

Next problem: is there any kind fix out there to display the Newsfader output under Opera ? Opera have a problem with Java-script and supres the text/ ignore the Javascript.

Regards
Zarzal

Just wanted to say awesome hack. It works great with 6.3.1!

Someone posted about it not counting forum stats....I found the problem. Im sure this doesnt fix all of the possibilities.

in ubb_forum_summary.cgi

Original

The new UBB is using =~ /private/

Well I've managed to "shoehorn" the fader into 6.3 beta and I'm using JC's templates but have managed to create 2 small problems . .

1. Cannot pick up stats (not really significant)

2. For some reason I cannot show graemlins and when I (quickly) right click the placeholder, the path shown is http://xxxxx.com/cgi-bin/graemlins/toast.gif when in reality they live in the standard location (/ubb/graemlins) and work fine everywhere else on the board.

I can only assume the problem is something to do with JC's templates being in ubb/Templates/JCTemplates.

I can't find any specific reference to graemlin path anywhere other than to the NonCGIURL in forum_summary.cgi

What else am I missing?? - Thanks.

2. Read my reply in the first page.

Once again - thanks very much LK - worked like a charm

it seems that greamlins will searched in /cgi-bin/greamlins instead of /nocgi/greamlins

I use newsfader621.zip for hacking because for the 622 is no zip avaible and I do hacks manual every time. maybe this is in 622 fixed.

Can anyone tell me who fix this ? Thanks.

Zarzal, please read the last page before replying

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Originally posted by LK:
2. Read my reply in the first page.

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Damm :rolleyes: It's sunday and I use the last night to bring my board to a new version. I read several post but it seems that I miss the point. Thans for the 'hint', it work

I realize no one wants to talk about Netscape but does anyone have an idea how to make News Fader work with it yet?

Thanks,

~Z

Hi I get this error!

Any ideas Alan?

Undefined subroutine &main::ReadNews called at /u/web/jonspa/ubb/Templates/public_forum_summary.pl line 360.

Thanks I'm using 6.3.0 beta 1

Jon