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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
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Posted - 15 March 2004 : 03:03:04
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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 Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com) Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 15 March 2004 : 03:26:50
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I gues you haven't looked inside the inc_iconfiles.asp file then. |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 15 March 2004 : 03:28:46
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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
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 16 March 2004 : 14:33:36
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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
3020 Posts |
Posted - 16 March 2004 : 16:00:30
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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 Barbershop Harmony Freak |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 16 March 2004 : 16:14:59
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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
Access 2000 Support Moderator
USA
3020 Posts |
Posted - 16 March 2004 : 17:04:48
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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. |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 16 March 2004 : 20:10:26
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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
Average Member
United Kingdom
592 Posts |
Posted - 17 March 2004 : 12:31:19
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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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»Snitz Graphics
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Edited by - Faizan on 17 March 2004 12:32:39 |
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