changing buttons from gif to jpg

[raxafarian]

yes i already said that i have modified these templates. My problem is that these changes r not being shown.

How can my forum still be showing forum_new.gif and forum_old.gif when these images r not in the code anymore?

try refreshing your browser...the old images are cached

ctrl-F5

[Sean James]

Then what did you change those images to in those templates? I really have no way of knowing what changes you made.

I am changing forum_old.gif to forum_old.jpg
forum_new.gif to forum_new.jpg
forum_old_lock.gif to forum_old_lock.jpg

I now do template searches on the above gif files and find nothing, but when viewing the forum the gif files show and not the JPG ones.

The strange thing is that in the explanation at the bottom on the forum where it explains what each folder image means (Forum Contains New Posts) this is being updated.

I even tried deleting the theme and starting from scratch to no prevail.

[Sean James]

Well i decided to skip these buttons now and continue on with my design.

All was going well until i get the same problem as previously, this time with forward.gif, quote.gif, quickreply.gif, reply_small.gif, i am changing all these to JPG images too. I am changing the code but again its not be updated on my website.

p.s. i only have one template installed, when i do searches on quote.gif etc i get no results, when i do searches on quote.jpg etc its being shown correctly that i have changed it. But when viewing my website i still see the old GIF files.
I am also using CTRL F5, so its not a cache problem either.

Can anyone help at all? cause this is getting really frustrating

www.ad.clanz.biz/forum

[Steve Machol]

This has come up before and unfortunately I don't know of any easy way to change all the gifs to jpgs. maybe someone else has come up with a way. Good luck.

[Sean James]

when i code for phpBB forums there is a file called 'subsilver.cfg', which controls all the images.

 define(TEMPLATE_CONFIG, TRUE);
$current_template_images = $current_template_path . "/images";
$images['icon_quote'] = "$current_template_images/{LANG}/icon_quote.gif";
$images['icon_edit'] = "$current_template_images/{LANG}/icon_edit.gif";
$images['icon_search'] = "$current_template_images/{LANG}/icon_search.gif";
$images['icon_profile'] = "$current_template_images/{LANG}/icon_profile.gif"; 

Does vBulletin have a file like this which i am overlooking?

[Sean James]

its all good , i have decided to stick with GIF's.

Thanks for everyones help.

[Mac Guru]

Ok I have one for you guys, where does vBulletin reference these two images?

announcement_new.gif
announcement_old.gif

I did a 'search in templates' but it came up dry... I'm swapping them with PNG's

Mac Guru

[Steve Machol]

I think forumdisplay_announcement is the correct template and this the relevant section:

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/announcement_$announcement[statusicon].gif" border="0" alt="$vbphrase[announcement]" />

Perhaps changing the 'gif' to 'png' will do it.