My tips on v7 beta 3

I'm testing it since 2 Days and it's  a really good forum , many thx to developer .

I love its spees and power functions.

I'd like to give my opinion about a couple of things

• Forum Skins on this site don't matches at version 7 becouse of button shape. In version 7 buttons are almost round while in previus they was rectangular
• version t beta 3 have likely some little problems with internationa language ( italian , french ) , old language pack are not good for this v7 , and if you translate all the file in language directory of forum , forum will lose its stability
• you can add addition avatars by editing /includes/select_avatar.asp , it is enought to add entries as : <option value="relative avatar path">AvatarName</option>
• you can add more emoticons by editing /includes/emoticons_inc.asp
• Open It and find the code Dim saryEmoticons(16,3) , add to number 16 the number of smilys you wanna load on forum. So if you wanr to install 4 new smileys the code will be : Dim saryEmoticons(20,3)
• Go at the end of the page and attach this code for every new smiley

saryEmoticons(XX,1) = "Smileys Name"
saryEmoticons(XX,2) = "Smileys Code"
saryEmoticons(XX,3) = "smileys relative path" 

where XX is a progressive number that change for ever avatar , so for the first new avatar we'll have to write

saryEmoticons(17,1) = "Smiley Name"
saryEmoticons(17,2) = "Smiley Code"
saryEmoticons(17,3) = "smiley relative path" 

• If you add a lot of avatars , you'll need a 'Scroll Bar' in the Emoticon Windows on the forum , so :

open includes/IE_message_form_inc.asp , look for 

<a href="javascript:openWin('IE_emoticons_smilies.asp','smilies','toolbar=0,location=0,status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=400,height=400')"><img src="<% = strImagePath %>post_button_smiley.gif" align="absmiddle" alt="<% = strTxtEmoticonSmilies %>" border="0"></a>

about line 237 and set  scrollbars=1

in the same way open includes/message_form_inc.asp look for

 <a href="javascript:openWin('emoticons_smilies.asp','smilies','toolbar=0,location=0,status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=400,height=400')"><img src="<% = strImagePath %>post_button_smiley.gif" align="absmiddle" alt="<% = strTxtEmoticonSmilies %>" border="0"></a>

about line 231 and set scrollbars=1

Now you have some cool scrolbars in your pop up emoticon window and you'll be able to add as many smilyes as you wish.

I hope these simple tips can help. Excuse my bad English, I'm Italian

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