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
Upload all images to yourforumpath/images/editor
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
Go to Styles & Templates -> Download / UploadStyles.
In the Upload form, browse to the editor_png.xml file
For the Merge Into Style choose the style that these changes should be applied on.
Tell the system to ignore the version number (just in case).
Click Import.
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:
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.
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Any suggestions on where to get a set for a back matted?
You can probably pull icons from any KDE Icon set and get what you need. That is what I used originally. There are a bunch of different styles and colors available at www.kde-look.org. Most of them are GPL or otherwise free-to-use licenses.
Other than that, Shelley_C is making a set of Editor Icons that are very colorful and can probably be matted on black. She might even be able to export them as transparent PNG files. I was going to use them originally but didn't want to have to go to the trouble of getting them matted to my background which is a beige color.
why not using replacement variables instead of this ? also this changed my width of the editor box it make it smaller which i dont like. how to undo or fix?
To revert, you should just be able to revert the editor templates that are included using the style manager. There are only three edited templates which are:
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12-21-2007, 10:09 PM
