iPod-Hacking.com's mobile skin

iPod-Hacking.com's mobile skin V1.0.0

This is my first release of the skin that I have developing for my forum.

Live Board

The instillation for this board is a bit more elaborate due to the custom status icons.

Installation:
1) Upload the file in the folder names "put in root of fourm" to your forums root directory.
2) Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Download / Upload Styles -> Upload iPod-Hacking.com V1.0.0.xml
3) Configure the status icons*
4) Done!

Credits:
-- Status Icon's - Any Apple developers who's i used
-- Skin based off of ElForro iPhone skin
--Menu based off of Justins mobile skin
* the status icons are located in the put "in root of fourm/iPhone/statusicon" directory. All status icons are assigned by forum id.

Example
You have a forum named announcements. The forum ID to it is 12. You would Name the picture that you would like to assign to that forum 12.png

In order the find forum id look in the URL bar when inside that forum.

http://ipod-hacking.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=104

Notice how it end is f=104
The forum id to that forum is 104.
So in order to put a status icon next to it i would need to have a picture named 104.png in the statusicon folder

In the extras folder their are PSDs that can be used to create the status icons.
Status icons are in a 50X50 format.
The best way to achive that size is to open the rendericon.psd
Click on one of the boaders.
Resize the icon so that it fits in the boarder.
Click back on the boarder and go to Select>load section> load the boarder.
Click back on the icon and press the delete key.

That will delete any extra color around the icons making perfectly rendered icons. For best results its better to cut a little off the icons then make them to small.

[l3it3r]

Does this only work in safari / webkit browsers on mobile? Anyone try in IE, opera or etc? (I would but I'm in a NOC with no cell at the moment )

[carphead]

Originally Posted by ForgotenDynasty

The one in the top title bar or the list of them in view forum.

The list view. Anything longer than about 60 characters goes onto three lines and looks awful as it over laps the threads above and below.

EDIT: Found the problem. It was in the advanced CSS. I removed the below. I'll add it back and find the perfect settings later.

a.topictitle {

font-size:17px;
font-family: Helvetica;
color: #000000;


display: block; /* Sets the href to be a block rather than inline */

/* The padding properties adjust the text content within the href block */
padding-top: 8px;
padding-right: 8px;
padding-bottom: 8px;
padding-left: 58px;

/* The margin properties adjust the size of the href block */
margin-top: -14px;
margin-right: -0px;
margin-bottom: -14px;
margin-left: -50px;

text-decoration: none;
color:black;
}

[Saqibm]

Just to let you know that I've got mine up and running with no problems and have it on auto detect. You can check it out on your own iphone here:

forum.darkline.org.uk

Thanks, great theme!

[ForgotenDynasty]

Originally Posted by Saqibm

Just to let you know that I've got mine up and running with no problems and have it on auto detect. You can check it out on your own iphone here:

forum.darkline.org.uk

Thanks, great theme!

Thats a mod i talked about that earlier.

Also its impossible for me to make my style alone be autodetected you need put code in your default style

I could make it so you can ONLY view it on the ipod touch/ iphone user agents then kick people like style id 2 or something like that so you can make that your your default and it will kick people to default if they are on a computer but thats not efficent

[Digital Jedi]

I'm noticing that Categories with subforums under them are not clickable and just show up as a bar with the Category name and nothing underneath it. Is this something that I need to edit, or will this show up differently in a device? I currently don't have a device with which to check.

http://www.cogonline.net/forums/index.php?styleid=30

[TPTP]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

I'm noticing that Categories with subforums under them are not clickable and just show up as a bar with the Category name and nothing underneath it.

That's what I'm seeing. I just loaded your site from my iPhone, and here's a snapshot of part of the page:



The Categories that you mention are not clickable on the phone, either.


Another issue:
I just loaded this style on my test site, and unfortunately, Cyb's ChatBox and Advanced Forum Statistics do not work. Chatbox simply doesn't load, and Avdvanced Forum Statistics just sits there saying "Loading...".

Yes, it's a mobile style, but I have a number of iPhone users (myself included ), who don't care about bandwidth. Besides, ChatBox works fairly well on iPhone, but not on this style.

Any idea what's causing it? I'm running vB 3.8.2 and vBa 3.2.0.

[Digital Jedi]

Thanks for checking for me. I didn't want to edit the templates unless I had to.

I was under the impression that this style had been designed to exclude the chatbox and most of the hooks. Maybe I'm thinking of something else.

[rmadeat]

cool

[Jman423]

Was there ever a fix for forums that are not running quick reply?

Also, I am not seeing the blue and yellow bubbles on mine, just white backgrounds on posts, I've made sure to upload the iPhone folder to the vB root, and everything else seems OK, but no bubbles and no ability to post reply without hitting the quote button.

This is a great template though, thank you for your time in developing and supporting it.

EDIT: I answered all of my own questions, for those that may be wondering the same info:

• Since I don't run quick reply on my forum, I simply commented out the "Reply" button in my postbit template (either postbit or postbit_legacy)
• To fix the "Post Reply" button at the top of the thread, I had to edit the SHOWTHREAD template. I replaced the URL for the "largereplybutton" with the following (I also added another button to the bottom of the SHOWTHREAD template):

  newreply.php?$session[sessionurl]do=newreply&noquote=1&p=$FIRSTPOSTID

• And for the bubbles not showing, I realized that the style only shows the bubbles in the postbit_legacy mode (in vBulletin options), so I copied everything out of that template into the postbit template and it worked like a charm.

I hope this helps someone out...

[ForgotenDynasty]

I purposely made the catagory bars not clickable sorry I just think the skin works better that way
sorry for not being active ive just been busy with school and since I took my site down this skin is kin of like out of site out of mind but I will most likely be updating it over the summer

and thanks for that quick list of bug fixes that will save me a lot of time when I go threw to update