1 level down would be the least confusing to the end user IMO. in links home, any cat with new links directly under it should be bold, and the number of total links should show up under each cat line. then when they click down, the same should happen for each sub cat.

Agreed.

Would also be cool to be able to assign an image to a link... easily. The idea is to list whoever in the links database, but sell the logos.

now that this thread has grown to over 20 pages, I find it hard to search to see if this has been asked, so if it has, just point me to the correct post..

when you click a link to DL a file, in the status bar of the DL, the file size is not shown nor is the "time remaining"

any idea why that may be? using 1.01 with vB RC3 - upgrading to 3 gold this weekend..

I personally don't mind, but my members get a little pissy about it..

No, this hasn't been asked before and it was a "design feature"...

I think it's quite easy to add this facility - and it probably should be included, as some of my users become a bit mouse button happy, not knowing if their downloads are happening or not. But there's one situation (when the d/l comes from another site) where I don't think it's possible - you have to have read the entire file before you know its size, whereas for local files, the operating system tells you.

I've released (see first post) a new beta version fixing/dealing with several requests in this thread:

- count of links/categories in category
- bold face for categories which contain new items since last visit
- more robust file downloading - should correctly provide a 'save as' even if Adobe Acrobat steals the browser
- progress information for downloads of local files
- more user friendly handling of broken links - if a new/edited link seems broken, user is given the option to fix it, but the link stays available in case we're dealing with a slow site, etc.

I'm sorry if I'm repeating a question that has been asked before but I couldn't find it in the thread.

1) How do I get Links to work with another Style? I have 4 styles on my forum and it only works on the default style. If I change one of the styles to the default style and attempt to reinstall it tells me that I'm about to delete all of the previous files.

2) How can I get the web sites listed on multiple pages? One of my caterories is growing quite large filling making the page too big. Is there a way to change this into a page 2,3,4....etc.

Thanks in advance

Brian

1) In the official VBulletin, standard templates are available automatically to all styles. This is not true for the links&files templates. They are only available to:
- styles that existed at the time you last ran stage 2 of the installation process
- new styles that are children of styles that existed at that time.
In other words, if you create new top level styles after you install this hack, these styles will not include the templates for this hack.

The solution is to rerun stage 2 of the installation process. This will fix matters - it will not delete your links - but you will lose any customisation you have made to the links&files templates.

2) Currently, there is no facility to paginate the links. I know that I need to code that, but I have to work out how the standard VB3 code behaves. Sorry.

Thanks for the quick response! I repeated step 2 and it worked great.

is it possible for users to submit files, but need to wait for amin or mod's approval?