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jay_v
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 Posted - 18 May 2002 : 21:52:42
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How about a mod that allows you to choose a skinpack for your snitz forum? Skinpacks would contain icons, background images, font & color info, etc. Download a skinpack, enable it and voila a new look for your forum. What do you guys think?
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Roland
Advanced Member
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Posted - 18 May 2002 : 22:23:59
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It's not that simple (yet). Right now those variables are loaded from the database so you'd have to get a new table in there for the different configurations and then create several color schemes. Each color scheme (theme or skin, whatever you want to call them) would need a DBS_ file to insert the necessary information, perhaps an extra table, into the database.
Once version 4 is released work on version 5 should be started which will be a forum containing CSS. In that case all you'd have to do is insert the name of a CSS file into the database and add a selection box to the admin options. Choose the file and in inc_top.asp the correct CSS file will be included and voila, your forums will use it.
IMHO it'd be better to add some CSS to your forums and then do what I suggested. Adding a CSS file to your site and its name into the database is a lot easier than adding multiple color configurations, not to mention that it'll keep your database size down.
http://www.frutzle.com
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jay_v
New Member
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Posted - 18 May 2002 : 22:54:15
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hmm... will it be necessary to create new tables in the database? won't it be possible to have something that merely changes the variables all at once?
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
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Posted - 18 May 2002 : 23:23:27
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Contrary to what Frutzle thinks, I don't think adding a templates/style system to 3.4 will be so hard.
Tossing around making a mod for it.
 Nathan Bales
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alex042
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 19 May 2002 : 01:08:29
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Why not use a CSS for site themes? That would cut down database field requirements to just 1 or 2 to identify where the CSS file is.
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
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Posted - 19 May 2002 : 02:08:44
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Snitz doesn't have CSS. It would be easier to work with what ya got first eh? Then try to add whatever later on.
Nathan Bales
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redbrad0
Advanced Member
USA
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joatham
Junior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 19 May 2002 : 13:33:18
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I am writing a skins mod, I've got the colors into a bit of Javascript, which loads up predefined colour sets into your Snitz configuration. But I've held back on developing it for now, as it relies on CSS, and I think that the next Snitz will have CSS support, so I'm just waiting for that to come along.
There is another way though, if people make skins packs, containing all of the icons, then that could be extracted over the top of the existing icons, then you have your new skin. If that was added to the Javascript that I've got for the colours/backgrounds, then it would be a complete skins mod.......
John
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