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muzishun
Senior Member

United States
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Posted - 15 March 2004 :  03:03:04  Show Profile  Visit muzishun's Homepage
Has anyone thought of (or written already) an Icon Manager MOD? Basically what I'm thinking of is something in the Admin Control panel that will allow the Administrator to easily change icons without having to rename all the files. In my head, it works and looks kind of like the Font/Color Config.

Does anything like this exist?

Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
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HuwR
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 15 March 2004 :  03:26:50  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage
I gues you haven't looked inside the inc_iconfiles.asp file then.
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muzishun
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United States
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Posted - 15 March 2004 :  03:28:46  Show Profile  Visit muzishun's Homepage
I have a little bit. What I'm wondering is whether or not anyone has made a way to do this from the forum itself. It would be nice to be able to make changes from the Admin Control Panel without having to edit the code and then re-upload the file to my server.

Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com)
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muzishun
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United States
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Posted - 16 March 2004 :  14:33:36  Show Profile  Visit muzishun's Homepage
I take the lack of responses to mean that nobody has attempted this yet? I'm still learning ASP, but I'm assuming that I'd need to change all the "Const" declarations in the inc_iconfiles.asp to "Dim" statements, then set each variable below. That way, all the files would be set as variables. If I'm right on this, I may start working on this MOD. However, it will prolly be slow going, as I'm brand new.

So, before I start, was I correct above? Or will I need to modify the database somehow?

Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com)
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davemaxwell
Access 2000 Support Moderator

USA
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Posted - 16 March 2004 :  16:00:30  Show Profile  Visit davemaxwell's Homepage  Send davemaxwell an AOL message  Send davemaxwell an ICQ Message  Send davemaxwell a Yahoo! Message
I don't think it's been attempted because the performance dip would outway the administrative benefits of it.

The way you want to do it will require a new table on the database (at least one), a new admin page, changes to every file that uses the icons, etc.

Dave Maxwell
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muzishun
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United States
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Posted - 16 March 2004 :  16:14:59  Show Profile  Visit muzishun's Homepage
Ahhh... I guess that makes sense then. How about this: could there be some way to edit the inc_iconfiles.asp from the forum? Some way to actually open the file itself and change the text within it? That way, you're still editing from the forum, but you don't have to worry about new tables, performance issues, etc.

Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com)
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davemaxwell
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USA
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Posted - 16 March 2004 :  17:04:48  Show Profile  Visit davemaxwell's Homepage  Send davemaxwell an AOL message  Send davemaxwell an ICQ Message  Send davemaxwell a Yahoo! Message
You could do that, but why re-invent the wheel? Just get one of the online webapps that are already in existance that will allow you to edit your asp files online, and you would be good to go.

Dave Maxwell
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muzishun
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United States
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Posted - 16 March 2004 :  20:10:26  Show Profile  Visit muzishun's Homepage
Heh, that's basically what I was looking for. I figured there was something like that out there, but I didn't know if it would do everything I needed.

EDIT: Anyone know of a good web-based ASP editor out there? I'm looking for something that is free, and that I can just point to my URL (ie - http://www.genuineimitation.org/forum/inc_iconfiles.asp) and have it open that file for editing.

Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com)

Edited by - muzishun on 16 March 2004 20:15:55
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Faizan
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 17 March 2004 :  12:31:19  Show Profile  Visit Faizan's Homepage  Send Faizan an AOL message  Send Faizan an ICQ Message  Send Faizan a Yahoo! Message
www.aranaea.com
Aranaea is a good editor. But you actually have to download the file and open it from your pc, not webbased.







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Edited by - Faizan on 17 March 2004 12:32:39
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