Forum Activity for @claygordon

Reusing id numbers in language files - confusing?

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I was looking to change one of the strings on my profile page from "Latest Videos" to "Latest Uploaded Videos" because JR makes a difference between uploaded videos and videos from Vimeo and YouTube.

I searched on "Latest," got two results, and updated the one that did not have a modifier, and, as can be seen in the top image of the composite screenshot, three different labels on my profile page were modified.

It turns out that the one I need to update was Videos with an ID of 23. Of course, figuring out which one to select was a matter of chance without looking closely at the template code (ahhh, but which template?

Several things occur to me:

• Having one label appear in multiple places could be a source of confusion as this makes it necessary to check every page in case the language ID# is used on more than one page.
• Not having context in the search results (not knowing what page/s an ID is used on) makes for a lot more work than is absolutely necessary.

Neither of these is a huge priority, but when time permits, having unique language IDs along with knowing which page(s) or module(s) each language ID is used on/in could be helpful to those of us who'd prefer not taking a fine tooth comb to the templates to figure out which is which.


updated by @claygordon: 03/26/15 03:03:46AM

getting some link 'pages not found'....

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On my system, TCLSkin1 is clone of Ninja 1.0.12, not 1.0.14.

TCLSkin1 is set as active skin.

Compare to 1.0.14 - 404 for me.

Go have lunch. This is not top of my list (this morning here in NYC - just passed midnight).

A few remaining issues in member images galleries

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On a side note for the scanner ... this URL fails to be identified as a URL:

( http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot)

This works:

( http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot )

I remember a thread of Strumelia's where some smiley's were not being properly identified ...

A few remaining issues in member images galleries

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It's not me - honest.

On my profile page, ( http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot ) I click on Galleries and the destination URL is:

http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot/gallery

However, I want to look at just the images without any gallery associations. The URL that works is:

http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot/gallery/chocliferoot/all

The following URL (which would be the preferred form, IMO) fails (404):

http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot/gallery/all

I am just coding what the system behavior tells me works, and that is {$profile_url}/gallery/{$profile_url}/all
updated by @claygordon: 01/14/15 08:45:31PM

Text transform on profile menu

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Brian -

Hope so, too. The only things keeping me from going live are these little formatting details.

I could push it knowing that it's going to take 24-48 hours for DNS to propagate once I make the decision to go live.

getting some link 'pages not found'....

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Michael:

Working from a cloned skin.
Go to ACP.
Select Skins
Select Templates
Select a modified template to compare - index.tpl
Click Compare - URL is now http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/core/template_compare/skin=nsTCLSkin1/id=36
On left: nsTCLSkin1/index.tpl (custom)
On right: nsTCLSkin1/index.tpl (1.0.12)
From the popup, select jrNingja/index.tpl (1.0.11)
404
From the popup, select jrNingja/index.tpl (1.0.14)
404

Text transform on profile menu

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To date, I have been making changes to templates solely in the ACP template editor. I sometimes copy the text into JEdit locally to look at it (for example long lines without scrolling and for search/replace, etc) but I always copy the changes back up rather than FTPing them. This means I can also save a local copy of template changes.

For CSS stuff it's been a mixed bag. Sometimes I will make the changes using the style editor in the ACP and sometimes I will make the changes locally and FTP them up.

There are a couple of reasons for this, the biggest of which is that sometimes the style editor interface won't offer me values I like.

One example of this is the class .blog-index-text in index.css. The ACP picker for line-height only offers 5 pixel increments and font-size doesn't offer odd heights above 14px. So I could not select, from the ACP style editor, 15 pixel text on 17 pixel line heights. This is weird because I can't ever see selecting a line height of 600px which is the limit of the picker. SO - something is going on there.

The picker for .blog-index-title also does not offer odd line heights above 14px.

The font-size range for most sites is going to be 7-24 px. and I really think that line-height can be specified numerically (either 1.1, 1.7) or % (110%, 170%) without any problem at all. Direct entry makes a lot more sense, maybe with a picker offering px, ##, or % as options.

going live on new domain in hours need clarification on new base url tool

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Paul:

My site is sitting in a directory with an add-on domain properly configured (as you may remember).

www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/
thechocolatelife.thechocolate.info/

When I update the DNS (Godaddy is the registrar) these will appear as www.thechocolatelife.com

How much of what you recommend to @soaringeagle will I need to do as a part of the DNS change?

Text transform on profile menu

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Brian -

As I mentioned to Paul privately, I also had some issues with template files not being copied over, specifically related to the header.

I manually went back in and changed the logo image (in the images tab of the skin), header heights (in header.tpl), and the CSS (in header.css).

Text transform on profile menu

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Brian:

I changed the text associated with id numbers in the language section of the jrNingja2 skin.
I cloned the jrNingja2 skin to nsTCLSkin1
The changes were not in the cloned skin.