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Re: Include Comments In Coding [message #35000 is a reply to message #34769]

Fri, 01 December 2006 11:29

Ernesto

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I strongly disagree Ilia. Most people who work on themes and skins are designers and not programmers, they use other tools than the classical "nerd tools" that a Linux user knows about. FUDforum is not all that easy to reskin, because it's hard to find out the structure of the skin, and what goes where etc. A documentation, WOULD help the designers create skins more easily.

I actually started working on a documentation a while ago, since I felt it was needed. But it's far from being ready.

However, I do have a request or suggestion to make.

When you create your own skin, and the forum is upgraded, it's always a bitch to find out which files have been altered etc etc. In many cases, if you want to skin your Forum, you only have to change in a very selected amount of tmpl files.

How would it be, that if you create a custom template, it makes "if file exist" calls on all the tmpl files in that directory, and if they do not exist, it uses the default template files in those spots instead? (Maybe it already does this, if so, ignore me, myself and I)

So, if all I wanna skin is the looks of an individual message, then I only put the drawmsg.tmpl in my CUSTOM folder, and since i want all of the rest to have the default appearance, I just let it compile those "missing" files from the default directory, instead of copying them over.

Now, to get back on track: I am writing not so much a Howto, but more a structure over what template file applies where in a table like demonstration thingy. If I ever get done I will of course present it here for other more talented people to continue on. =)

Ginnunga Gaming

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		Include Comments In Coding By: Dustin Kowalski on Fri, 17 November 2006 08:26
		Re: Include Comments In Coding By: Ilia on Fri, 17 November 2006 15:19
		Re: Include Comments In Coding By: Dustin Kowalski on Fri, 17 November 2006 15:37
		Re: Include Comments In Coding By: Ilia on Sun, 19 November 2006 16:37
		Re: Include Comments In Coding By: Ernesto on Fri, 01 December 2006 11:29
		Re: Include Comments In Coding By: Dustin Kowalski on Fri, 01 December 2006 13:16
		Re: Include Comments In Coding By: Ilia on Fri, 01 December 2006 15:38
		Re: Include Comments In Coding By: Ernesto on Fri, 01 December 2006 16:35

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