Dropdown - Manual

Note to all: Yes I will be upgrading this mod if needed to work with vB 4.0, but not before it goes gold on or around the ETA of December 21st. I personally wouldn't recommend anyone upgrade their forum for a couple weeks after it comes out so that the modding community has a chance to test their code on the gold version.

I'm sorry, I'm quite spectacularly dumb when it comes to this kind of thing - I have a couple of questions if you'd be so kind:

Firstly, how do I remove the username from the dropdown_title? Is it even possible?

Secondly, I'm getting an issue when using this with the legacy postbit where for users with shorter names, the title background is taking the entire width of the postbit, and it looks a bit ugly:

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5199/problemju.jpg

Any suggestions?

1. Remove from the dropdown templates:
2. more likely it's a spec they have that's long (IIRC).

Thanks for the prompt response.

Regards the second point, it doesn't seem to be - if I open the dropdown menu, the title bar is still much longer than any of the fields. As a potential workaround, is it possible to just change the colour of the title bar so that it matches the background of the postbit?

It uses the default dropdown code, so either you'd have to change the colors of all of them, or if you just want to change that one then you'd have to add some CSS for that. CSS isn't my strongsuit, so I can't give you any tips, sorry!

Not a problem. :) I've muddled through and managed to get it more or less doing what I wanted now - probably not even close to good CSS, but it seems to be working, which is good enough for me. Thanks for a great mod.

In case anyone else has a similar problem to the one I had, I fixed it by doing the following:

In the dropdown call template

Change
to
You may find that this causes the dropdown to overlap some areas of your postbit (it did with mine) - In the Postbit Legacy template, simply add a couple of line breaks (<br>) after
and that should sort it.

That's how it worked for me, anyway. Hope it helps.

so any news about this on vb4?

This avil for 4.0.1 yet? This is just what I need!

Please update!!!

If/when I can get free time to do anything other than work, definitely (I need it for my own forums eventually lol). Just got a new job, and there's no such thing as an 8 hour day. Worked two 12 hour days back to back, just got off a 15 hour day. It's a balance between work / eat / sleep, and other. Other's a low priority ATM :mad:

To others:

thank you. as long as you do not abandon it completely :)

Wired,

I've been using this mod for some time now. It's currently showing for some registered members who have filled out the profile fields, but I just had someone register yesterday and fill it out...and it's not showing for them, or me...for that matter. I mean...I know they have completed some of the fields, but the dropdown just isn't showing for them. My PC specs are viewable...and so are some others, but this has got me scratching my head.

I currently run vB 3.8.4PL2.

Is there anything you can suggest? I appreciate it...this mod is definitely one our forum needs...and like I said...it's been working fine. I'm not sure what's causing it.

Nevermind...I should read your first post a little more carefully.

Let me guess, field 5?

Yep...that be the one.

There are a lot more forums than you may think that thrived and depended on this mod before vB4. It is a great addition and unfortunate that there is no version 4. I come here all the time looking for an alternative for version 4, and no such mod exists. It is a small type of template modification in the grand scheme of things, but it makes things *that* much better for forum members. I would be willing to even donate to you like $20 to make a vB4 version.. I know this isn't much since Im broke.

Money is not a motivator to me. I was working on the mods yesterday actually since it was the first day in 2 months that I only worked 8 hours.

In otherwords, life is life. Now let me ask this: If this mod is so important to you, why don't you hit install? :)

It is really important to me too. but i don't have it installed. should I still click install?
actually, I think I have it disabled in vB4..so i guess i can ;)

*CvP uses a piano wire to kill Wired1's boss.

now you are free to update it!

Those Corsair forums are just crying out for VB4 :D

LMFFAO I know, but that's a WHOLE different story. Work's FINALLY getting under control to where I can finally get some decent sleep, so yes, coding's next. My new Android phone's giving me some ideas :)

just a working version asap would be nice.
then we can brainstorm :D

Looking forward to it, thanks mate :)

My need is a bit different, I want to have a list of animals that people keep on my forum. Basically you click it and the list drops down. Problem is that if I have my field as a text box, everything is formatted like a paragraph in the postbit. To have 1 animal per line, I have to make single-line text box for each animal. Some people have 50 animals. I made 10 fields, but that's not enough...is there a working alternative or do I have to scrap this install.... hope not, because I really like this simple mod! You can see it working here

anyone?

Please be patient!

So, you're saying you want a dropdown with 50 lines?

I think you might wanna do it this way:

- have a max height option of the drop down
- if the height is more than that, it uses scroll bar
- the above user can use multi line text boxes

The dropdown code is just a call to a vB function. Not gonna reinvent the wheel.

Hello,
I have a problem with this mod using it on vBulletin 3.8.5

The mod works correctly, but creates a problem only with Internet Explorer here:

- User Control Panel http://www.XXXXXXXX.com/usercp.php

- New thread subscribed

- Click on the title of the thread

- Link not found error and closed window

how can we fix this?
thanks

Take a screenshot, as I have no idea what you're talking about.

I try to insert screenshots ...

mod installed
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ALWAYS (with all threads) error with I.E. when you click to enter directly the last answer to the thread
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I press OK and links not found
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no problem with firefox no problem with safari (SAME LINK ... see error IE)
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help me please !
thanks

Hello,
nobody knows how to solve this problem?

Thanks for your help

No idea, sorry! Can't duplicate it. Another mod's interfering perhaps? Turn off all plugins, then turn this one on.

The problem occurs only Internet Explorer using the shell.
With Safari and Firefox everything works fine.
I do not understand

Whats the status of moving this to vb4?
thanks

Working, but ugly as hell. Probably going to just release it as a beta and see if someone with better CSS skills than I can clean it up.

I will try to help :)

Okie dokie. Note: I'd prefer to only use CSS that's already existing. That way new styles will auto-skin it.

so it is fully working except styling?

This is the 'profile fields' version that I like the most so hopefully it will come out soon. :)
If I can be of any help, please let me know. :)