[vb4] Adding a stylevar

[cbiweb]

Forgive my brain fart but how do I make it work after it's set up? How does vBulletin know what to do with it?

[Carnage]

There are various types of style var; off the top of my head there are thigns like colour, border and background. Depending on the type you pick depenends on how vb handles it.

You use it just like you would any other style var.

[3DUInc]

This is really excellent and I will use this after the final updater. I bet vb will be adding many more stylevers because some are turned off and some are still needed. Excellent job

I think what cbiweb is referring to is how does the stylever know what it is assigned to change, like if you wanted a border around the body, how would the created stylever know that is what it is assigned to do? Im kinda wonderin this myself but I have not tried this so it may be self explaniory when you install it.

Again, excellent job

[Carnage]

You basically need to put the style var into your own template.

As an example; my [pbpg] chess mod defines two style vars, one for the background of a black square, one for the background of a white square.

I then added these two style vars to a style sheet within one of the templates like so:

<style>
.whitesquare {
background: {vb:stylevar whitebackground}
}
</style>

[3DUInc]

ah-ha OK very cool and thank you. I understand fully now

[yaghoub]

Group
StyleVar ID
Friendly Name
comments
whats fill this value

[Carnage]

Group: this is used for where the style var is displayed in the style var editor; the bold titles are the groups. If you enter an unused title, a new group should be automatically created.

Stylevarid: this is the name for your style var and the name you use to refer to it in template. Must be unique

Friendly name: no effect at the moment, but it will at some point be used as the name the style var is called in the stylevar editor.

Description: not exactly sure where this is displayed but it should describe the style var

Other fields should be obvious.

[yaghoub]

thanks

[cbiweb]

Originally Posted by yaghoub

Group
StyleVar ID
Friendly Name
comments
whats fill this value

See the attached screenshot for a visual explanation.