Is it possible to use a different set of post icons?
 

The standard ones in vb4 are not cutting it for me and I want to know how, if at all, I can use some of my own. I lack technical knowledge and am openly asking for help. :)

Yes, personally I'd obtain the ones I wanted to use (I'm gonna stick my neck out and say you're looking at the Vb 3.8 ones?) if I'm right in that case, you should simply be able to download a copy of the 3.8 software, locate and separate the forum icons (check they are called the same as the version 4 ones- ie locked.gif or something like that) then upload and overwrite the version 4 ones with the version 3s..

They would have to be PNG's now, I think, instead of GIFs like before?? I am working this issue on 2 forums! :confused: :rolleyes:

If the VB 4 ones (for example) are PNG and the VB 3 ones are GIFs (which I personally very much doubt without checking as I'm sure they'd be the same whichever one it is) just change the GIFs to PNGs in photoshop, PSP or if you haven't got anything like that gimp, which is a free editing software and more than capable of doing that

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actually I've just looked at Vbulletin.com and compared the icons with here and the VB 4 ones are PNG so just change the vb 3 ones from a GIF to PNG as above then upload and overwrite :up:

OLD ones= GIFs NEW ones= PNGs;)

Yes just change the old ones into PNG's

There's actually slightly more to it than this as I've looked into it and was going to update to vb 4.2 myself today until this happened-

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...49#post2342549

anyhoo, you would have to alter the name slightly of most of the replacement buttons to match the default VB 4.2 ones (also the vb 4 buttons are slightly bigger than the vb 3 ones) I've altered most of mine already in preparation, if you want them give me a shout

Heck yeah, thanks! (Especially if you are the same you as on vbadvanced)

Send them on over if you would be so kind.:)

Yep tis me :)

The attached are what I've done so far, basically converted all the contents of the vb 3.8 status icons folder into .png's and renamed to coincide with the vb 4.2 ones (as far as I can tell) so they can be directly replaced...in theory at any rate... owing to my php issues on my upgrade this afternoon they haven't been tested... I did intend to go through all the icons and stuff and replace them and was hoping for my site to be live on 4.2 by now but alas this hasn't happened :(

I think there may well be some that aren't right and some others that need to be converted as there is more in the 4.2 folder than the 3.8 folder, although the differences may not matter or something else could be converted or used to cover these if this is the case, I simply don't know as I have no means of testing them or even looking at what is what until I can get a 4.2 site running... whatever the case let me know how you get on, if they are ok etc and I'll assist wherever I can :)

I will get back to you, but they all (both sets) are in the same folder/directory in my install.


:)

The ones in your database on your server should be the default VB 4.2 ones which are different to these (in design and look) these are or rather should be the default VB 3.8.7 ones but renamed to match the VB 4.2 ones) and .png instead of .gif

OK- I got around to this. I was referring to the post icons, like those underneath these text box as in posting a reply, or a new thread. Those. Sorry for any confusion and thanks for your help, thus far!

Do you mean the 'reply', 'quote' etc buttons?

No! In the reply box the "post icons" (OR start a new thread)

Post Icons
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Depends what you're after, if its the vb 3 ones you want to replace them with its the same principal as above simply change them from gif to png and directly overwrite the vb 4 ones using ftp or some such. I haven't had a look at this yet as my vb 4 test/ development site isn't up and running but should be within the next few days, so its on my to do list... note that you may need to resize them and/ or rename them according to the vb 4 ones... you can compare them by downloading both the vb 3 package and the vb 4 one, off the top of my head and without looking they should both be in the package in upload/install/images/icons folder