New Posting Features - PNG Editor Buttons

As another step forward in usability, here is another simple template edit that uses the FAMFAMFAM Silk Icons for your editor buttons. These icons are in PNG format with alpha transparency so should look good on any background except pure black. Black doesn't work since most of the icons contain a lot of black.

If you have a lot of Internet Explorer 6 users, then you will need to install the following addon as well:
PNG Transparency for Internet Explorer - This will enable Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 to utilize PNG Transparency through DirectX filters. This is not needed for Internet Explorer 7 or higher.



Features

• PNG icons for Standard and WYSIWYG Editors
• Cut, Copy and Paste enabled in Editor
• Extra icons included for additional common BBCodes including superscript, subscript, audio, video, and horizontal rules.

Installation

1. Upload all images to yourforumpath/images/editor
2. Merge the style.xml file into each style you want to apply the changes to. This will only work on styles with unedited editor templates. If your editor templates are modified then you will need to revert them to apply this change. To do this follow the steps below.

Merging Styles

1. Go to Styles & Templates -> Download / UploadStyles.
2. In the Upload form, browse to the editor_png.xml file
3. For the Merge Into Style choose the style that these changes should be applied on.
4. Tell the system to ignore the version number (just in case).
5. Click Import.
6. Repeat for each additional style.

The FAMFAMFAM Silk icons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.
Note:
If you install this template modification after upgrading to 3.7.0 RC4 or later, you will need to manually add the security token notification to the three templates. This line of code needs to be added:

<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />

If this is installed before you upgrade to RC4 then vBulletin will automatically add these lines during the upgrade process.

Update:
Updated to 3.7.3 with all code changes between Beta 2 and 3.7.3 applied.

Support:
For support with this template modification, please visit www.rabidbadger.net and post your issues in the Project Tools tracker. Registration is required. All registrations are moderated. To get access as soon as possible, use the same username that you use on this site.

[abbasbsp]

also in my quick reply........ please help....

[PalServ]

thanks alot , nice mod

[redlabour]

If anyone gets Problems after Upgrading vBSEO to vBSEO 3.2 GOLD read this:

http://www.vbseo.com/f5/vbseo-3-2-0-...tml#post153887

[Ketro]

Chill out folks, the reason your images probably aren't showing up is that you deleted the orignal .gif images that were in the forums/images/editor folder. When images can't be found, alt text is used instead, which is what the majority of you are seeing. Check your images/editor folder and makes sure that the images in there are .GIF and NOT .PNG.

Note: You only want the .gifs in there if you are trying to remove this hack.

[ThorstenA]

Using vbSEO I had a problem in quick reply box because after the color button the html of my homepage (http://www.myforum.com) appeared.

Would be great to just change graphic icons without style changes.

[Vinyljunky]

Originally Posted by redlabour

If anyone gets Problems after Upgrading vBSEO to vBSEO 3.2 GOLD read this:

http://www.vbseo.com/f5/vbseo-3-2-0-...tml#post153887

Any chance this mod could be updated to resolve the issue with VBSEO?

You have multiple instance of $vboptions[clearpngurl] inside your templates. You need to replace them with $vboptions[cleargifurl]

Thanks

VJ

[AbercrombieAron]

I've just turned the png images into gifs and overwritten the default icons.

No messing, job done!

[Quillz]

Just installed these on all my styles, they look great! Thanks for sharing.

[FluidG]

I had the same problem with this until I remembered that if you are using a non-default style, you will need to put the images in the custom style's image folder (inside the main images folder). After that it worked fine.

[Stubbed]

Originally Posted by Vinyljunky

Any chance this mod could be updated to resolve the issue with VBSEO?

Thanks

VJ

It's not really an issue with this mod, or of vBSEO, more a compatibility thing between the two. I'd prefer to leave it as the png variable, as I've got rid of all of the gifs on my forum, as long as that post stays there people who use both will know what they have to do..