[vB4] forummenu not really

[aspen]

I finally upgraded one of my forums to 4.0. HOLY CRAP THIS STYLEVAR SYSTEM IS A HUGE STEP BACKWARD.

I am pulling my hairout here. What took me 5 minutes before is now taking me 5 hours, that is way too expensive a cost of ownership. I've got 12 licenses and I'm loathing the thought of upgrading all of them. VB has REALLY dropped the ball here.

According to the less than useful visual dictionary PDF file forummenu stylevars are supposed to be for the little forum menus, inline mod, etc.

But they're not. Mine are showing white on white and the forummenu_background stylevar is showing as dark grey. So obviously that isn't what controls that.

So in a subforum at the top right you have forum tools and whatnot, and it is a drop down menu. What controls that color and background.

Also, the forum homepage, what controls the row colors for the subforum list?

[Bram]

Ever since we upgrade to vb4 the forummenu stylevar seems broken. Whatever changes you make on the colors or borders nothing happens

[Ramsesx]

Your site loading time is very slow, you should upgrade to 4.1.5 or fixing this issue by hand.

[napy8gen]

They don't use the forummenu anymore but it still listed in the stylevars.
Since 4.0.8 they used toolsmenu stylevars for all forum menu.

they are so many unused stylevars that is still in the stylevars list.

[The Vegan Forum]

The toolsmenu stylevar controls the color and background of the name of that menu ("Forum Tools"), but the menu which pops up is controlled by something else - and, for some reason, not by the same stylevars which control other menus.

You'll see what I mean if you got to veganforum.com and try to open the Forum Tools menu (eg here: http://www.veganforum.com/forums/for...RUM&styleid=53), and choose the Blackstealth style.

I usually don't use this style myself, and don't know when that menu turned unreadable... but can anyone suggest which stylevars that control the background and font color of that popup menu?

Thanks in advance.

[setishock]

Time to get firefox with the firebug add-on. I got told to use it several times and now I use it all the time. Great little tool for finding those odd items.