Major Additions - [DBTech] vBSlider v3 (vB4)

vBSlider: What is it?
vBSlider is a professional slider mod, allowing administrators to show the latest threads, articles, blogs, and custom-defined content in a jQuery based slider. vBSlider can be used on both the CMS and Forum, and is compatible with vBulletin 4.x Suite, vBulletin 4.x Forum Only, and vBulletin 3.x

Uses

vBSlider can be used on both the CMS and Forum to promote your latest content, as well as custom content, and can be separately configured for both the CMS and Forum.

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Differences between Pro and Lite

Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com

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Translations may be available @ http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forums/91-Translations
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Complete Feature List (Lite)

General Settings

• Option to display version number in widget footer
• Option to not load jQuery, if it is already being called by another modification
• Option to select which version of jQuery to load
• Default image for CMS content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided) [vB4.x only]
• Default image for Forum content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided)
• Default image for Blog content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided)
• Default image for DragonByte Gallery content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided)

Multiple Slider Instances

• Ability to create and insert virtually unlimited sliders across your forum
• All settings below are customised on a per-instance basis

CMS Options (as a Widget on CMS pages) [vB4.x only]

• Option to select how many articles from the CMS you want to display
• Option to select which CMS sections you want to include/exclude from the slider
• Option to select how many threads from the forum you want to display
• Option to select which forums you want to include/exclude from the slider
• Option to select how many blog entries from the blogs you want to display
• Option to select which blog categories you want to include/exclude from the slider
• Option to select how many [DBTech] Gallery images you want to display
• Option to select which [DBTech] Gallery instances you want to include/exclude from the slider
• Option to select how many custom content items you want to display
• Option to select how many characters of the content item you want to display

Forum Options (as a Widget on Forum Home, vB3 & vB4)

• Option to enable or disable the widget on Forum Home
• Option to select location for the widget on Forum Home (above or below forums)
• All of the other options listed for the CMS [vB4.x only]

Customisation

• Stylevars available for both the CMS and Forum versions, so that you can match each one to your specific design [vB4.x only]
• External CSS file available so you can match the slider to your forum [vB3.x only]
• Ability to define a maximum width and height for the slider (in StyleVars for vB4, in CSS for vB3)
• Fully phrased to allow for customization for different languages

Additional Feature List (Pro)

General Settings

• Option to move Copyright location from below slider to site footer
• Option to change the default image for CMS content items that do not have an associated image (vB4 Only)
• Option to change the default image for Forum content items that do not have an associated image
• Option to change the default image for Blog content items that do not have an associated image
• Option to use IMG tags inside the content types to allow for external images to be used inside of the slider

CMS [vB4.x only] and Forum Options (as a Widget on CMS/Forum pages, CMS is vB4 Only)

• Option to select how long each content item displays before transitioning to the next slide
• Option to pick the location inside the slider for the content
• Option to pick the text alignment of the content

Custom Content Options

• This gives you the ability to create your own content items to display to your users
• Ability to define a title for the content
• Ability to define a message for the content. Message can include HTML formatting
• Ability to define a link if you want to provide additional information in a separate location
• Ability to define a link to an image for the content item
• Option to pick the location inside the slider for the content
• Option to pick the text alignment of the content
• Option to enable/disable on the CMS [vB4.x only]
• Option to enable/disable on Forum Home
• Option to enable/disable site wide
• Option to select the target location for the link to open in
• Option for 'banner-only', so if no text is in the message area, the content slider doesn't show
• All of the above options are definable for each custom content item

Customisation

• Ability to define the width of the content area when located on the left or right side (in StyleVars for vB4, CSS for vB3)

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Spectre_Aidan]

nevermind now i got it working, the only probelm is that when you set it to forum it shows the dragonbyte image and not the one from the thread

[DragonByte Tech]

How is the image shown in the thread? Is it an attachment or via an IMG tag. The lite version only picks up attachments. The pro version has the ability to use attachments and/or images inside IMG tags. So, with the lite version, if there isn't an attachment, it will default to the default image. With the lite version, the default image is not definable, whereas in the pro version, you can define your own default images for the blogs, threads, and articles independently.

Brad

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by jack-d

I actually made a few posts and made some images up that were sized to fit the slider so no resizing would be required and when I look at them in the forums they look fine but viewing the same image in the slider they look like a jpg compressed to 40 or 50%. Now this was one test and I have not had time to test it anymore so it might be something else. I know they are not "upsizing" as you say so that is not the issue.

To come back to this issue, I figured out a potential cause to this while working on someone else's slider who was having similar issues. The problem is, if you don't take into account the borders of the slider, and size the image to the size of the slider as specified in the StyleVars, then the image is actually being resized slightly, resulting in a "blurry" or lo-res image. On the user's site I was working on, it ended up that if the slider was sized 12px wider than the actual image, then it would look exactly how it does outside of the slider.

With that said, how the slider handles images will be overhauled in a future release, as I have come up with some further ideas on this, which hopefully will result in better performance as well as better looking images. I don't have a timeline for this fix just yet, but it is definitely in the planning stages.

Brad

[burlesque]

Hi, I purchased this from your siteabout 12 hours ago, but I've still not received the download. It still says 'Awaiting Authorisation' even though the payment has gone through successfully.

I already contacted you through your site, but have had no reply.

[ProFifaLeagues]

Originally Posted by burlesque

Hi, I purchased this from your siteabout 12 hours ago, but I've still not received the download. It still says 'Awaiting Authorisation' even though the payment has gone through successfully.

I already contacted you through your site, but have had no reply.

Maybe a Different time zone mate they are very good guys and will be in touch ASAP
:up:

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by burlesque

Hi, I purchased this from your siteabout 12 hours ago, but I've still not received the download. It still says 'Awaiting Authorisation' even though the payment has gone through successfully.

I already contacted you through your site, but have had no reply.

I am not involved with the payment process, but I want to say you should have gotten an email about verifying your Paypal email. Please check you Junk/Spam folder for the email account of your Paypal account.

If this doesn't work, I will also pass information on to the guys in charge.

Brad

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by burlesque

Hi, I purchased this from your siteabout 12 hours ago, but I've still not received the download. It still says 'Awaiting Authorisation' even though the payment has gone through successfully.

I already contacted you through your site, but have had no reply.

Just a little note that I replied to your email roughly 15 minutes after you sent it - have you checked your spam folder/ensured *@dragonbyte-tech.com is on your safe sender list?

In future sending a PM or starting a thread on the DBTech forums is the best way to ensure you get a quick reply - especially since posting about Pro products here on vb.org is against the rules, so we can't actually give you support etc on that here

Iain

[bposner]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Are you sure you have a quantity for the threads? Can you PM me your site URL so I can look into it further? Thanks.

Brad

It works "below forum" but not "above forum"
When I say works, it displays things I didn't request, like articles, and blogs, which I clicked off, by hold the control key and selecting which was the only way I could have it not select.
Anyway that's where I stand.
Thoughts?

Thanks
Bill

[Gholsie]

Just installed on 4.1.11. It has potential, but, slows down my website so bad that it kills MySQL. I get a lot of "mysqlserver has gone away" errors after running it for just a few minutes. I really like it and would pay if you can get around the lag and the sql errors.

[DragonByte Tech]

Just more for my info, how many items are you loading into the slider. Also, what kind of hosting are you on (shared, VPS, dedicated)? With the next major update, processing should be improved.

Brad