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Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-16-2006 03:46 PM
I am working on a revamped downloads center. It shall be called the "File Archive". Expect to see it around the end of August, although it may have some bugs.
For more information, see this thread on the MyBB Community forums.
Also, be sure to post feature requests, etc.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 08-16-2006 04:01 PM
*sigh* you registered as "Coolv". I thought you were beyond that, ah well.
You seem to have gooten a lot of compliments on this.
So this will be part of the MyBB forum? This will eliminate the need for a second download center host? Sounds good.
Hmm. I could help with aesthetic features. Being a graphical person and all. It seems complete otherwise, to me. I must say, though, you do work surprisingly fast. If only you did this with Mathermatica.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-16-2006 04:05 PM
Pure Wrote:*sigh* you registered as "Coolv". I thought you were beyond that, ah well.
You seem to have gooten a lot of compliments on this.
So this will be part of the MyBB forum? This will eliminate the need for a second download center host? Sounds good.
Hmm. I could help with aesthetic features. Being a graphical person and all. It seems complete otherwise, to me. I must say, though, you do work surprisingly fast. If only you did this with Mathermatica.
Well, I did not see why I would need to register on the MyBB forums using my real name. Instead, I used one of my aliases. Other examples of online aliases that other people have are: Pure, bfr, allynfolksjr, Kmilo, anykey, Num, someone1900, Madskillz, Zeddicus, tifreak8x... The list is nearly infinite.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 08-16-2006 04:07 PM
Well, no, I mean that I register on every forum as Pure, and bfr used to register on some as Joeman345, but no longer does.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-16-2006 04:10 PM
Likewise, I register on every forum as Coolv (preferred) or as Vworldv (second option).
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 08-16-2006 04:15 PM
And yet, here, you're Vladik. Nevermind, we're getting offtopic. you should look at the rest of my post.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - bfr - 08-16-2006 04:39 PM
Wow, this looks like a cool project. I think the current downloads center is fine, though.
I hope this gets finished.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 08-16-2006 08:12 PM
Nah, it's not fine.
It's better to have everything sort of together instead of on 3 separate sites.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-16-2006 08:27 PM
Right. After I'm done with the File Archive, I will see what I can do about joining the forum and the wiki (no promises, though!).
EDIT: If you want a sneak peek at a very early version of the Author Profile, go to http://forum.ticalcs.net/author.php !
It's VERY early at this stage, beware of that.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 08-16-2006 09:16 PM
I see. The preview looked sort of promising. Proof that this project is well on its way.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-16-2006 09:29 PM
"Sort of promising"? That's a low blow!
EDIT: Progress: User statistics showing for files authored and revies made.
Will now create fake files to test the integrity. Will also create viewfile.php.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 08-17-2006 12:32 AM
well, there wasn't much to see in the preview.
so how many steps are left now?
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-17-2006 05:33 PM
Well, I'll do all of the complicated things first. Therefore, I will finish up the Author Profile and go to the fileview and review view.
EDIT: BTW, it is better if you view my author profile, which is at http://forum.ticalcs.net/author.php?uid=1 , becuase it has more of the content that you can expect (files, etc).
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 08-17-2006 05:38 PM
Oh, I see. This looks far more promising than the first one.
Ah, I see. last will be the aesthetic changes (which I will help with).
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - something1990 - 08-17-2006 10:15 PM
Looks cool! Hopefully, everyone will actually care this time and don't leave the downloads center out to dry like they did to the current downloads center...
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 08-17-2006 10:19 PM
Not everyone left the old downloads center to dry. However, there needed to be more activity by people other than the staff.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - something1990 - 08-18-2006 01:59 AM
Everyone's excited about the revamped downloads center. Let's just hope the excitement doesn't die out after a while and we get a lot of people to contribute and download.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-18-2006 05:04 PM
*sigh*
Another day of developement in a one-man project. No wonder most large projects were created by a team. And yet, I will persevere!
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 08-18-2006 05:24 PM
Well, you should probably ask for help from some of the MyBB community people. I would help you if I was proficient in other computer languages.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-18-2006 05:33 PM
Naw, I can do it on my own, it would just take longer...
I already have a moderate amount of progress...
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-18-2006 08:55 PM
UPDATE:
http://forum.ticalcs.net/showall.php?action=files&uid=1
This is great progress. Everything else will be simple to program in relation to this.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 08-18-2006 11:00 PM
Oh, wow! This looks great!
Now you just have to program the CP's and whatnot, right?
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-18-2006 11:41 PM
Well, it's not that simple. I have to program toplists, ajax, portal, category-view, file-view, review-view, and the administrative functions. But, this was definitely the hardest part of the project, because the amount of rows AND columns is variable. Of course, I had to use a template because MyBB relies heavily on templates.
Now I will program the toplists and the AJAX. Once again, they should be fairly easy (I will reuse some code).
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 08-18-2006 11:57 PM
What are you going to use the AJAX for?
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-19-2006 12:52 AM
It's a surprise.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 08-19-2006 01:12 AM
Oh, I see. If it's Ajax, this should be good...
*rubs hands together*
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-19-2006 03:29 AM
You won't be disappointed!
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-20-2006 10:12 PM
Here's to the prototye of the AJAX Portal Component!
[attachment=91]
Note: Currently the AJAX does not load on page startup, because I was running into some bugs in Internet Explorer:
When the page was first loaded, the AJAX would work as intended, but when the page was reloaded, the functionality was lost...
I am working to overcome this difficulty and to improve this feature further. I am using a custom AJAX library made by yours truly.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - bfr - 08-20-2006 11:55 PM
Wow, this is great progress! This looks like it will end up excellent!
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-21-2006 01:25 AM
Yes, it will.
I have fixed the bug (well, I have made a workaround).
It seems that IE somehow does not allow references to document.getElementById after loading. That is, it allows the reference, as in:
Code:
var r=document.getElementsById("content")Fortunately, I WAS able to get around this...
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 08-21-2006 01:43 AM
Ooh.
This will barely be compatible with Firefox. You're building it around IE...
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-21-2006 01:59 AM
No, it is compatible with FireFox because it fully utilizes the DOM.
And, I've corrected the error in a much simpler manner.
It turns out that the error occured because the script to automatically update the page was parsed BEFORE the div... Leading the browser to throw an error. Although my fix was quite effective in removing this error, I have removed all traces of it from the library. *cries*
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 08-21-2006 02:43 AM
hmm. Interesting. Perhaps you should have thought of the parsing error before anything else? Sometimes, the biggest problems with my computer are loose cables...meh...
But that's good, it's multi-browser. Excellent.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 08-21-2006 02:46 AM
Well, I didn't expect that.
Also, look for tabbed selections on the portal widget (screenshot coming soon). That should be fun.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 10-28-2006 12:31 AM
You may have noticed that there has been no progress on the downloads center. This is because of an issue with MyBB. I will get more work done on it next weekend, not this weekend. Sorry.
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Roivon - 10-28-2006 12:46 AM
What is this issue with myBB?
It doesn't accept the widget?
RE: Revamped Downloads Center - Vlad - 10-28-2006 12:53 AM
Shh. It's secret.