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Old 03-20-2009, 07:57 AM
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Yes, within the posts, its already like that, but they need to make the upper window which shows the threads larger, then the lower window which actually shows the message will be updated as you scroll through the posts.

If the forum had a pull down menu showing all forums at the top from even the message view, and a larger threaded view window in the "Showthread.php" it'd be perfect. That should be a fairly easy fix.

But the "Forumdisplay.php" code is perfect. I'd like to get my hands on that bit of code for TAG.
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Originally Posted by Kris Hansen
in that forum, can you have threaded view within posts too?
click on a post, you see the threaded view of the thread it belongs to above it.

it's very nice.
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Originally Posted by fusilier
Yes, within the posts, its already like that, but they need to make the upper window which shows the threads larger, then the lower window which actually shows the message will be updated as you scroll through the posts.

If the forum had a pull down menu showing all forums at the top from even the message view, and a larger threaded view window in the "Showthread.php" it'd be perfect. That should be a fairly easy fix.

But the "Forumdisplay.php" code is perfect. I'd like to get my hands on that bit of code for TAG.
you want the link to the mod? PM me, but you'll need a valid vb license...
Old 03-20-2009, 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by pierreb
you want the link to the mod? PM me, but you'll need a valid vb license...
The problem is its only good for VB version 3.6 maybe 3.7.
Those are the older versions of VB available to people who once purchased it, but don't continue to upgrade their liscense for the latest version. VB allows expired customers to upgrade to older versions. The main problem is upgrading this means some of the basic PHP files are changed, so that any subsequent upgrade will mean considerable debugging and rewriting of PHP code to get it working again.

Having installed VB myslef, done a host swap with VB and upgradede VB, the process isn't that hard, but having to manually rewrite sections of PHP files for this is hard as VB updates can come fast and frequent.
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Originally Posted by fusilier
The problem is its only good for VB version 3.6 maybe 3.7.
Those are the older versions of VB available to people who once purchased it, but don't continue to upgrade their liscense for the latest version. VB allows expired customers to upgrade to older versions. The main problem is upgrading this means some of the basic PHP files are changed, so that any subsequent upgrade will mean considerable debugging and rewriting of PHP code to get it working again.

Having installed VB myslef, done a host swap with VB and upgradede VB, the process isn't that hard, but having to manually rewrite sections of PHP files for this is hard as VB updates can come fast and frequent.
Yep, I know all that. Not my first dance with VB, fwiw
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Better. Its a definate improvement.
you guys work quick.
I'd continue embellishing the layout to have pamplet graphics to help distinguish the lead post of a thread and to seperate threads.

Also, inside the thread view, I noticed you have the thread window under the message post window. This seems to create a refresh or something with each read, I don't know if thats intentional, but it seems to reindex the page every time to move to a different post. This isn't like standard Vbulletin threaded view.
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Don't make it too busy. Too much crappola and it will take forever to load.
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