[syrus.xl]

Originally Posted by Noosphere

If I may ... I'm running vBa CMPS as well and hope to display my new sphere ( ) in a module on the front page. Tried to set it up last night, but just don't have the know-how for the work-around you note. In my case, the answer to your question above is yes, my CMPS is installed in the root.

Couple thoughts for consideration:

1) Ideally, once its displayed in a front page module, I'd be able to reduce it in size (so it doesn't bust the page), and when users "activated" it by either mousing over or clicking on it, it would expand to full size, then reduce again either after a default time setting or when the user actively ends his session somehow. Sorry, I know that's not well stated; it's early morning here and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet.

2) Also--and this may be more doable short-term--I would really like to be able to make some of the images (either the thumbnail or full sized) be hotlinks to other parts of the site ... kind of a 3D site index. Hope to have a go at that later today.

At any rate, thanks again for a great mod. Installed and working fine.

1. At the moment the flash file has a fixed size with respect to the dimensions, hence 900 pixels wide, which was intended initially as a standalone on just a single vBulletin page. This is how it was designed, and not really to be used in vBa CMPS. For it to work in this script it requires some recoding of javascript attributes and using a different embed method so it will use the vBulletin templating system as opposed to pure PHP coding. From what I can remember with vBa CMPS it is quite straight forward, but I would need to code a vBa CMPS module for it, along with some additional coding in another template. It could be setup within a collapsible module, if thats what you are referring to? The overall size I will change in the update, and users can set the globe radius as they see fit for their own websites (this attribute is documented in the user guide under Advanced XML Configuration).

2. Making the images hotlink to other urls is quite easy, but not implemented in this version. I will look at this in an update, all it would involve additional url and target attributes in the XML file on the images you want hyperlinked, and the ones you dont want associated with an hyperlink you would just enter no url or target.

Glad you got it all working in the end!