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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 671 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yes, Ken, I know this is the boring part of programming - the documentation!  I started to try and and what I could get out of the theme-editor, and I ran in to two problems: There's a TON of new tags (it seems) but they are not described in the help... I'm especially interested in the HEADER_VARS, that each new section gets in a JavaScript by default - I assume it can be used to link a stylesheet to the sections, so I don't need to define styles in each section?If I create a new section, and just leave it at the default (not changing anything), the preview gives me a script error saying something like "Stringconstant unfnished in line 89, character 63." Bug?Finally: Is there a chance to see the source for the standard theme? Just the General info section, so we could pick up a few pointers about the possibilities (are the tabs HTML-generated or several sections "overlayed?") | | | | The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (William Gibson) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Rander: Quote:
There's a TON of new tags (it seems) but they are not described in the help... I'm especially interested in the HEADER_VARS, that each new section gets in a JavaScript by default - I assume it can be used to link a stylesheet to the sections, so I don't need to define styles in each section? From the Release Notes:  Quote:
For advanced users, optionally include a tag which auto-generates JavaScript variables for all the DVD data elements Start a brand new HTML Window, switch to preview and view the source of the blank window. You'll see the effects of HEADER_VARS quite quickly.  | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 671 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mark Harrison: Quote:
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There's a TON of new tags (it seems) but they are not described in the help... I'm especially interested in the HEADER_VARS, that each new section gets in a JavaScript by default - I assume it can be used to link a stylesheet to the sections, so I don't need to define styles in each section?
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For advanced users, optionally include a tag which auto-generates JavaScript variables for all the DVD data elements
Start a brand new HTML Window, switch to preview and view the source of the blank window. You'll see the effects of HEADER_VARS quite quickly. Okay, it's hard to miss - and I can see the possibilities in that! You wouldn't happen to have a "JavaScript for Dummies" you could fling my way, would you? | | | | The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (William Gibson) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Rander: Quote:
Who reads those in all the excitement about a new version? Me.  Quote:
Okay, it's hard to miss - and I can see the possibilities in that! You wouldn't happen to have a "JavaScript for Dummies" you could fling my way, would you? I don't mess with books anymore. I've found Google to be far more useful. Of course it helps if you know what to Google for. If you have JavaScript questions, fell free to ask away. I've been a web programmer for over 10 years and what I don't know, I sure others can answer. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 671 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well, I have done webpages for about ten years too, but I have never done any JavaScripting - I just had no use for it, as there was nothing I could do in JavaScript that I couldn't do in PHP... But, let's start with the basics: If I want to print the var DP_Title, how would I do that? I tried "echo DP_Title", which did absolutely nothing (not even an errormsg)... | | | | The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (William Gibson) |
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 4,282 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm excited to see what you guys come up with. My JavaScript abilities are limited too, I'm afraid. Too much reliance on ASP.Net!  | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm not a Javascript expert either (I've mainly done ASP and .NET), but you can do this to output that value:
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
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document.write(DP_Title)
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,029 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mark Harrison: Quote:
Start a brand new HTML Window, switch to preview and view the source of the blank window. You'll see the effects of HEADER_VARS quite quickly. Sorry to spoil the fun, but this is currently pretty useless: var DP_ImageFileFront is defined twice, once with the front, then with the back. DP_ImageFileBack is missing. Backslashes in file paths are not duplicated (must be "C:\\dir1\\dir2" instead of "C:\dir\dir2"). There are other issues with malformed strings that result in exceptions, probably with unsafe characters in the Overview etc fields. Anyway, the idea is great, it just needs to be implemented properly. | | | | Matthias |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Sure, there are problems. But it doesn't hurt for now to play even if you run into a few problems. What I was doing earlier in the Preview window was to ignore the errors, view the source, manually remove the overview, save, refresh the preview window. It was good enough to get a few things tested. Of course you have to start all over if you switch back to the design window. So it's not quite ready for production. But you can certainly play, experiment and learn until it's fixed. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | Maybe this doesn't quite fit the discussion, but it does fit the topic... So far I only played with the basics of layouts, meaning arranging the little windows... So I'd like to add: "Creating layouts is not easy, when..." you have three windows below each other (2D) and trying to resize the lowest one changes the sizes of the upper two as well  | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 1 |
| | Posted: | | | | Does anyone know if there is a way to reference the images embedded within the DVDProfiler layouts, things like the DD images and Region code images? I had previously created similar images for my old skin, but If I can reference these directly I'd prefer to do that within my HTML code.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 810 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting brett: Quote:
Does anyone know if there is a way to reference the images embedded within the DVDProfiler layouts, things like the DD images and Region code images? I had previously created similar images for my old skin, but If I can reference these directly I'd prefer to do that within my HTML code.
Thanks
-Brett I can get the image tags to work in the HTML, but not in the JavaScript to save my life.  pdf | | | Paul Francis
San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 55 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mark Harrison: Quote:
I'm not a Javascript expert either (I've mainly done ASP and .NET), but you can do this to output that value:
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
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document.write(DP_Title)
//-->
</SCRIPT> Unless your target audience includes people using Netscape 1 or IE2 I wouldn't bother with the <!-- and //-->. For HTML windows, the target audience is exclusively IE6/IE7. | | | Doug
DougWeb.org - my personal site.
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 116 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dvdoug: Quote:
Quoting Mark Harrison:
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I'm not a Javascript expert either (I've mainly done ASP and .NET), but you can do this to output that value:
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
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document.write(DP_Title)
//-->
</SCRIPT>
Unless your target audience includes people using Netscape 1 or IE2 I wouldn't bother with the <!-- and //-->. For HTML windows, the target audience is exclusively IE6/IE7. I wouldn't rule out us Firefox users Doug  | | | Greetz,
Marc Castermans
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 55 |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 116 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dvdoug: Quote:
Unfortunately, the HTML windows use 'the system HTML renderer', which happens to be IE. What browser you use for 'normal browsing' doesn't matter. Ok, I'm crawling back in my 'don't disturb the specialists corner' | | | Greetz,
Marc Castermans
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