[Forum] Numerous vB4 default style problems (4.0.1)

[Serega_M]

Hi,

First of all I need to say that I've always been a huge fan of vBulletin and have upgraded from 3.7.2. to 4.0.1 today but so far it seems like a huge disaster. First of all - new default style is crap, plain and simple, userUNfriendly and confusing (especially with lack of clear defined tables). Why fix something which isn't broken? I mean - why won't you left the original and pretty userfriendly vB3 default style in new version as well? Anyway, we need to work with what we've got so I need to tweak this new vB4 style and it seems like not working smooth. I am on IE8, but FireFox shows the same symptoms.

First, if you enter in specific forum, its description is not in one line, but cuts in half, which is crap. See vb1.jpg attached.
Second, if you enter to some thread, its name behave the same as forum descriptions - cuts in half, which is also crap (see vb2.jpg) but which is more annoying is that some messages in the thread displayed in the same way, with huge blank space on the right (see vb2.jpg as well). Same with the quotes (see vb3.jpg). At the beginning I thought that this pehomenon was only evident in the latest messages in a thread, - say - when you post new message - it is like this, with blank space on the right, but when the newest message is posted after it - it is started to display normally, but now I see that it is some strange random issue and even the old messages from before the upgrade can be shown this way.

So, I'd like to know how to fix these problems, and I am sure I will find some more things to rant about cause I've just started exploring ths new vB which so far seems like a complete disaster to me. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Found another problem - when you see your private message list, the checkbox for the first date is not in line with the rest of them. See pic vb4.jpg

[Lynne]

Both the forum description and the thread title are in divs that are set to be less than 100%. Forum description is at 50%, thread title at 40%. Add this to your css template additional.css (could change 90% to whatever you want):

#pagetitle {width:90%;}
#pagetitle {width:90%;}

Both the issues with the first post (and last post) being shortened and the quote issue are talked about elsewhere and are bugs. The fixes are posted in the other threads.


For future reference... if you find a bug, you need to make sure it is in the bug tracker or it will NOT get fixed. So, do a search in there, if it isn't entered, then enter is with as many details as possible so the devs may reproduce it and fix it.

[Serega_M]

Thanks for help with width and pointing out that short messages are the bug. I've fixed both, but the checkbox in PM is still an issue - any ideas? Or is it also well known bug as well (didn't manage to find it there)?

[Lynne]

None of my test forums have the issue with the PM checkbox, so I'm not sure what it is and I haven't seen any other threads about it. You may want to try a search in the bug tracker to see if it's there.

[Serega_M]

Ok, I'll try again, although I didn't find info the first time. If won't find it and it won't gone - will open a bug report.

[Serega_M]

Have found another bug with new style. Have searched on forums and even tried to implement some of the suggestions regarding editing editor.css but to no avail. The problem is that some smiles are resized being TOO small relative to others in advanced reply (see screenshot). How to fix it?

[Lynne]

I don't know... I seem to recall that there is a bug in the tracker regarding the smilie sizes. You may want to look at the bug report and see if a fix is posted.

[Serega_M]

I did, and implemented the suggested fixes but they seems like not working for me. Anyway, I have another question - I'd like to remove Prefix from Thread Display Options (see attached pic) in 4.0.1, how can I do that?

[Lynne]

Hmmm, unfortunately the if condition around that code will always be true, so we can't just add a plugin to remove it. So, go to FORUMDISPLAY and find this line and remove the whole <vb:if> to </vb:if> for it:

<vb:if condition="1 OR $prefix_options">
....
</vb:if>

I *think* that should work.

Posted as a bug - Condition to show Thread Prefix in Thread Display Options is always true

[Serega_M]

Thanks, it did the trick! But it would be cool if there will be just the option added to either show it or not, cause I've disabled prefixes anyway and why would this option be there then?

[Lynne]

Thanks, it did the trick! But it would be cool if there will be just the option added to either show it or not, cause I've disabled prefixes anyway and why would this option be there then?

Maybe post that in the bug report I made since I am asking them to redo the condition in the template anyway.

[Serega_M]

I did post it to your report, also, can you help me with the code to show people's gender in their posts? For the 3.x versions I was always using this code to show the picture of the person's gender in postbit_legacy template:

<br /> Он/Она/Оно? - <if condition="$post[field6] == 'Он'"><img src="images/misc/male.gif" align="absmiddle" alt="Он">
<else /><if condition="$post[field6] == 'Она'"><img src="images/misc/female.gif" align="absmiddle" alt="Она"><else /><if
condition="$post[field6] == 'Оно'"><img src="images/misc/it.gif" align="absmiddle" alt="Оно"></if></if>

But in vB 4.0.1 this code is not working. On vb.org there is a code which does the trick but it is unusable to me cause it requires English words as the gender, and I have them in Russian. The code suggested there is: <vb:if condition="$post['field6']"> <dt>Gender:</dt> <dd><img src="images/misc/{vb:raw post.field6}.gif" alt="" /></dd></vb:if>

and it would work for me if I had English words - but I have them in Russian and Unix doesn't understand Russian filenames So - any suggestions of how I could modify the first code so it will work in vB4 as well

[Lynne]

Perhaps something like this"

<br /> Он/Она/Оно? - <vb:if condition="$post[field6] == 'Он'"><img src="images/misc/male.gif" align="absmiddle" alt="Он"><vb:else />
<vb:if condition="$post[field6] == 'Она'"><img src="images/misc/female.gif" align="absmiddle" alt="Она"><vb:else /><vb:if condition="$post[field6] == 'Оно'"><img src="images/misc/it.gif" align="absmiddle" alt="Оно"></vb:if></vb:if></vb:if>

[Serega_M]

Thanks, Lynne, you are a genious, everything is working like a charm now!

[Serega_M]

Found another style problem with the element alignment (see screenshot), - how to fix it?