Ooops! I could have sworn you'd released the new version I've been testing / using.

-- hugh

Ok, I'll wait for the next version then. :)

I'll bully AJ into getting it released ASAP! I'm still in shock at just how darn useful this mod is.

Oh, and I'll donate a "the" to your sig word collection. Copy, paste and use wisely.

-- hugh

thanks nice work

Nice, Don't really have a need for it as I've never found it a pain unless I was updating multiple styles to new versions or working en mass with lots of styles. Though I'm slightly suprised no one did this sooner seeing how part of this has been in the code for awhile.

Nice work :)

I think you'd be amazed at how useful the ATC is, even if you don't do much template editing. You'll save the time it took you to install the ATC the first time you do need to edit a template. Template editing becomes just like PHP editing - make your changes to a simple HTML file using your IDE / code editor, and hit your page again.

I don't do a huge amount of template editing, but the ATC has already become one of those things I don't know how I lived without.

Even if you don't do template editing, just being able to dump all of vB's templates and include them in your IDE's "Search in Files" path is invaluable when trying to work out how vB does something. Like, what does $show['some_show_thingy'] do, how does it get set and where does it get used? One search in your IDE finds all occurrences in PHP and templates.

-- hugh

Me too. :(

[high]* Guest210212002 clicks install anyway
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I might actually upgrade to PHP5 just for this mod.

Sorry for the huge delay in upgrades.

You can track the real progress of it at my dev. blog, and you may also be interested in the other upcoming or existing tools if you are serious about developing.

(ATC is being renamed to VDE -- vBulletin Development Environment and will soon work for the other product data aside from just templates).

SVN users will be pleased to see public SVN access.

And if you aren't an SVN user ... you should be. :)

A quick crash course for anyone unfamiliar with it, SVN is a "source control system". It allows developers to share and distribute the latest code. And because AJ's stuff is on a public SVN server with 'anonymous' access, anyone can use SVN to download AJ's latest and greatest, without having to wait till he gets round to updating the ZIP on this page.

For Windows, by far and away the best SVN client is Tortoise SVN:

http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads

Download and install it. Tortoise installs itself on your normal right click folder menu. Create a new folder somewhere called 'vbdevtools'. Right click in the new folder and select "SVN Checkout". In the "URL of Repository", paste this URL:

https://vbdevtools.svn.sourceforge.n...oot/vbdevtools

Click OK. Tortoise will now connect to the SVN server and download all the folders and files for AJ's 'vbdevtools' project. In ./vde/unstable you will find the ATC. To install / upgrade to it, do exactly what you would normally do - upload the uploads and install the XML.

From now on, whenever AJ updates his code, Tortoise will change the Green Tick folder icon on your 'vbdevtools' folder to a Red Exclamation Point icon. To download the updates, just right click the folder and select "SVN Update".

-- hugh

ah nice, I didnt know you released this publicly yet - i'll refer here from now on :)