"You have posted in this topic" icon

[nomenclator]

I searched for it and couldn't find it.

Pleeeeze...

I want a "You have posted in this topic" pictograph (icon) in addition to the "new posts" and "no new posts" pictographs. I could manage without the "new posts popular" and "no new posts popular" icons. Or, as in VBulletin, one pictograph for "new posts and you haven't posted, another for "new posts and you have posted," another meaning "no new posts and you have not posted either," and a fourth meaning "no new posts but you have posted." VBulletin simply adds a dot in the middle of the "new post" or "no new post" pictograph, to convert it to one "new post and you have posted" or "no no posts and you have posted" pictograph."

This might be even simpler -- 2 columns with a checkmark or no check mark in each column. One column for new posts -- it can be checked or unchecked. One column for you have posted in this topic, with a check or no check.

I want to know where I've been!

[Ptirhiik]

The "I respond to" feature is included in the Split topic mod. Find it in the dev. from here, or a demo at the demo board.

[nomenclator]

alright, let's see if I've got this straight, what i called a "you have posted in this topic" pictograph, you call an "I respond to" feature. And from other message boards, i've gathered that this involves an "i've reponded to this topic" icon, which consists of the icon that would have been there, with the addition of a red dot, or is it a black dot, or does the dot change? -- in the upper left corner of the icon??

And I can get this feature if I download and install the automatically split topic by message type modification, that you developed, and phpbb com has tested and approved?

Oh yea, one more question, does the dot appear superimposed over any icon I am already using, according to what skin I am using, or does having the "i have responded here" feature, in the "automatically split topic by message type" modification, involve replacing the icons I am using with a new set of icons, which include several additional icons? For example might I want to create several new icons that look like my original icons, only with dots on them, and upload these in addition to my original icons?

[Ptirhiik]

Let's try to reply simplier : the version I mentioned is the last one : the one present in the mod database is several monthes outdated. The icon, as all other icons in phpBB are independant icons sat in the images dir of your template, and registered in your_template.cfg. You will find in the mod package the .PSD (photoshop sources) with the icons for subSilver (very simple to draw, I only add the red dot to the subSilver gif). You can prefer using a class of your css as background for the icon cell by setting a constant in the functions_topics_list.php coming with the mod : it is up to you . I prefer for this kind of things not use a java addition of the dot to the icon, as 99 times for 100 try you will get problem with various browser (ie : ICQ little flower...).

Regarding the name of the feature, I prefer using the "I" rather than the "You", as the effect will be viewable by "I" : you will see yours only, not mine .

[nomenclator]

So are you saying that I have to download a newer version from your site rather than the version found in the phpBB site modifications download section?

You are saying that if I'm not using subSilver I have to make some additional icons by modifying a few of the icons I am using, by using photoshop to add a red dot to my original icons?

Or else I can "You can prefer using a class of your css as background for the icon cell by setting a constant in the functions_topics_list.php coming with the mod : it is up to you"

I didn't quite understand that last sentence, probably because my familiarity with css is nearly none. But I think I can figure out how to do the former suggestion, modify my icons with photoslop. Actually I know nearly nothing about php or mysql, but found I didn't have to, to set up the phpBB board. I know some html, and just a tiny bit of perl.

Makes no difference en anglais whether you use "I" or "you" when you are a computer presenting written messages to whomever is viewing you. Either way is considered correct. However the way I look at it, since the computer is doing the writing (that is, the computer programmer, thru the medium of the computer) if it says "I" it would be referring to itself, the computer (really the computer programmer), rather than the viewer. It should call the person viewing the program "you." After all, I did not write the phpBB program, I am only reading what the programmer who wrote it wrote, not what I wrote, when I read that "you have posted to this topic before." I didn't write that sentence, whomever wrote the phpBB, or in this case, whoever wrote the modification (Ptirhiik - RPGnet-fr), wrote the sentence "you ahve posted to this topic before." So you, Ptirhiik - RPGnet-fr, should address me as "you" since you are not referring to yourself, you are referring to me, nomenclator, or whomever else may be using phpBB and reading the message. Only occaisonally would that be Ptirhiik - RPGnet-fr; most of the time it would be someone else.

You said it yourself; you said "you will see only yours [emphasis nomenclators], not mine." So you should say, "you have posted in this topic." When you are talking to me here, in a message, you address me as "you." Why should you address me as "I" when you are talking to me through a series of programmed statements in a computer program?

[Ptirhiik]

So are you saying that I have to download a newer version from your site rather than the version found in the phpBB site modifications download section?

Indeed, or you can find the topic also in the dev. forum here at phpBB. The mod has been submitted since a long time for last update, and had never been taken in consideration yet by the mod team (time I supposed).

You are saying that if I'm not using subSilver I have to make some additional icons by modifying a few of the icons I am using, by using photoshop to add a red dot to my original icons?

Yep

Or else I can "You can prefer using a class of your css as background for the icon cell by setting a constant in the functions_topics_list.php coming with the mod : it is up to you"

This means the mod can handle a change of background for the topic folder icons rather than new icons : on some template, it is difficult to find a way to put this warn, but more easier to change the background. By looking at the top of the file functions_topics_list.php, you will get a better idea of what you have to change for this, even if you are not comfortable with php

Makes no difference (../..)

Thanks for the input. That's why I use quotes arount "I replied to this message" to be sure there will be no comfusion

[nomenclator]

Great, thanks Ptirhiik - RPGnet-fr.

I downloaded mod-split_topic_type.zip from http://rpgnet.clanmckeen.com/demo/downl ... c186eacdc1