Well, I played around with it for the last 3 hours, was convinced it was the blindingly obvious solution to the resizing problem, then remembered the blindingly obvious benefit of using the javascript code.

The code you suggested is good except for one thing - it resizes up images smaller than the values you set. Say you set the width to be 50, with your code, this means that all images will be width 50, even if their normal width is only 20. By contrast the javascript version does not resize up images smaller than the maximum, it only resizes images bigger than the max.

It's a shame about this because I'd begun to add it to the mod... but it looks really naff when you start making small images bigger than they should be.

Ah welll....

this mod works great, i live it.

However, the mod works fine so far and you did a good job.

Thanx for this YABB modification

-Gong-

All right, if you haven't sent this to the database yet, I have a couple of suggestions to make. If you have ... well, I still have a couple of suggestions to make.

First off, for information, on the very slight chance it would affect the things I mentioned ... I installed this on 1.1, not 1.2.

I ran into install problems on steps 10 & 12, both in the AdminEdit section. Both steps were search and replace, and I made each of them to work just fine by replacing that search and replace step with a search and add after step. You might want to give serious thought to doing the same, or the mod will probably be incompatable with a whole bunch of other mods which also add to the admin center settings panels. I'll be glad to send you a copy of my modded mod file, if you would like to see just what I did. (It worked perfectly, but I did get one too many horizontal rules in the display, a purely visual issue which only me as the admin can see, anyway.)

Secondly, what is involved in adjusting the panels on the thing. I have the New Calendar and Chat mods on my board, and it makes for a slightly less nice look to things to have the background showing through because of these mods. I realise it may not be poossible to build a solution to this problem -in- the mod, but can anybody provide info on what and where I would need to change to manually fix it?

To see what I mean, visit my forum and look at the info section at http://gordonkorman.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl

Ronnie, thanks for the quick reply. I love this mod, and in about an hour, I have already gotten my first member sending me messages about how much they like it.  

First off, the comments I mentioned weren't about needing to make the mod 1.2 compatible, as I am not using 1.2. I don't know if they are needed to be 1.1 compatible ... I -think- they are more needed to be other mod compatible. But no big deal in any case. I'm still halfway new at this, couldn't make a mod of my own to save my life, so if I can figure out how to recode and make it work on my board, probably 75% of the other members here who might run into the same problem could do the same thing. If you've been around here much, you already know how many mods get questions asked about them working with other mods!

I downloaded the file mentioned in the first message in this thread, and downloaded it today to add the thing to my board.

The problem may have come up from the fact that there are two calendar mods out there, Calendar and NewCalendar ... maybe you set it up to work automatically with Calendar, but not NewCalendar.

On the chat versions, I'd guess that the chat ones you mention are both different versions of the same chat mod, as opposed to the chat mod I have (1.98, I think is the current version) and a different chat such as the aim chat mod or the ICQ chat mod. Actualy, there are so many different chat mods that, unless only Ironwing's chat mod adds a section to the Info Center, it might be -far- simpler just to provide the information to users about how to adjust it manually, like you are in the middle of doing with me.

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This is fine, I can do this. My only question is, in which file, and how do I find the right sections. Forgive me, but remember, I am still learning!!  

I no particular order...

- I got what you meant the first time round, I just didn't say it right. What I should have said was, I'll try to make the mod more generally compatible.

- To be honest I just used The Gong's code for calendar compatibility so I'm not sure whether it's for the Calendar or New Calendar mod! (Lazy of me I know but...) Perhaps he can answer.

If the built-in Calendar check isn't working, you'll have to increase the rowspan setting again manually by another 2, for a total of 4 extra, so the new line will be:

$rul_rowspan = ($username eq 'Guest') ? 10 : 8; 

- I'll have a look at those two chat mods tonight and see if they have settings which I could use to see whether they're showing anything on the board index. If it's possible I'll add compatibility to the next version.

- OK, open BoardIndex.pl and do a search for the first string. Then replace it with the second string. Simple as that. After you've done this though the mod won't uninstall with BoardMod, so you might like to uninstall the mod first, search and replace that line in the .mod file, then reinstall it.

- The problem with custom avatars has been fixed for some time, they work in this version. They're working on your board cause I looked at the URL for the avatar of the user "neptune" and it was from "http://images.sportsline.com/u/ap/photos/EDM102022223_lower.jpg".

I think that answers everything!

Just struck me, another option would be instead of making the recent users cell taller to fill in the ugly gap, you could make the cells beginning with the "Chatroom Users Online" cell wider by increasing their colspan by 1, to fill the gap that way.

If you're only using 5 recent members then it would probably look better to cut the cell off short rather than have a huge, tall empty cell there.

Just a thought.