Installed the latest version and everything is working great except on thing.

I can't get the icons to show up. I would like to see the folder icons as well as the file type icons, but I can't seem to get them working.

Have you uploaded the /icon directory (in the zip file) somewhere convenient, and have you pointed file_icons_dir (LDM/admin/settings/image settings) at this directory?

Found it!

VB is adding a break in the middle of long names. The place where the break happens is controlled by the setting *Number of Characters Before Wrapping Text* (see vb/admincp/Thread Display Options).

What I need to know is whether you think this is sensible behaviour or not.

Plus points:
- very long names will not break template layout

Negative points:
- It's a bit distracting

Yes. I had a little trouble trying to set the file_icons_dir becuase the example said "/images/icons", but I could only get "images/icons" to work. If I try to put "/images/icons", it will strip the first "/" from the path.

Yes, that is a bit confusing, I agree.

Is everything working now?

Darn, it was all me. I checked the path again and had it wrong. :(

Great product you have here.

It would be nice to just display all the categories and then the downloads on the main page. Also, it would be cool to automatically display the "you don't have permissions" dialog when trying to access a page with out the correct rights. currently, it just displays an empty page. :)

Happens to the best of us...


Could you explain a bit further?

Not sure where this is missing - as far as I know, all barred accesses are trapped. Can you point me at an example?

Okay, on the main page which shows the categories. It would be nice to be able to display the category title, then the links below it. The the next category, and links, and so on.

I set my downloads to use the permission from a certain forum because I want only fully register users to have access. So, if a non register member tries to access the page, it just just shows the blank forum page with no category headers. I mean it works fine, but it would be nice to be able to display a message instead. I can't show you an example on my site because I coded it to actually display the standard message in the local_links.php file.

Thanks, Andrew! That is definitely a workaround. In 2.8 you might think about adding an override of "Number of Characters Before Wrapping Text" just for LDM. For non-professional sites, the way it is now is probably fine. But for professional sites related to SAP, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, etc. you can get some really long file names out there.

Again, my thanks!

OK, I understand - you mean, if the permissions result in *no* visible categories/entries at all, then this should be flagged with a 'no permission' warning message.