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Re: Free DNN container ( wooden display cabinet ) and few DNN container enhancement questions

HopeAndRebekah — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:36:08 GMT

Where can I download the quiz module at?

Re: Container Site

Richard Cox — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:22:18 GMT

That would save alot of work. I found a text to image renderer, but not an html to image....

The container site I'm hoping for a week or so will run itself :) I need to get a few clients work done, and start working on a new application toolkit for under DNN.....and package up the three that have been sitting there waiting PA assembly and documentation so that I could throw them out the door at people...*sigh*

Let me know what you come up with, would make a great edition to the site :)

and pssst...everyone...upload containers or at least visit us!

--Richard.

Re: Container Site

nokiko — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:14:33 GMT

Hey

my boss needs an html to image render so i can play with this idea in work time as well ;)

If i get it working ill let you know then you can have images rendered of the html of the dnn containers for your container site

Re: Container Site

Richard Cox — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:33:39 GMT

I think for alot of container modifications to core, I'm waiting to see what comes out of 1.1 skinning first. It's my understanding, but I may be off - that the container concept is entirely changing in 1.1.

As far as the download module, yeah, it definately needs some paging happening!

I'll have to see if I have the source to that module.....hmmmm..lol

I'll take a look at that container enhancement, but I'm fairly up to my eyeballs at the moment....sigh...so much fun stuff to do...not enough time!

--Richard

Re: Container Site

nokiko — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:23:17 GMT

Hey richard

nice site, but perhaps an ida to change the download module and add some paging to it, that will sure make it more readable.

I am working on some more dnn containers and a gdi + container enhancement wouldnt it be cool to have images instead of textual headers so you cn mek the type of font match the design of the container.

I just need someone with some more dnn experience then me to help me find best way to incorporate this , up for it?

I have a <img src="Schwingcanvas.aspx?text=module&font=gothic&direction=righttoleft>

this could be something we could add to the moduleheader in container enhacement.

Re: Container Site

Richard Cox — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:15:44 GMT

:) Glad you liked it!

That baby is slow to load that container page though...I think it's downloading 300+ images locally on the first load of the page! Would love to have a HTML -> image renderer to save speed, but that's a future change *smiles*

--Richard.

Re: Container Site

mikeh36 — Sat, 27 Sep 2003 18:38:34 GMT

Nicely done site Richard. I'm sure I'll get some use out of it in the future.

Container Site

Richard Cox — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:07:53 GMT

Okay, I gave myself a dose of Carpel Tunnel and threw together a quick site. I'll do up a nice skin for it another day :)

www.bydesignwebsights.com/dnncontainers

I've Added most of the containers that I have, a few haven't been marked by me as compliant yet, so I'm waiting until I get all that straightened out with the last few containers.

Registered Users can upload their own containers, and instructions are given on how to create the container inside of the download "View Details".

Enjoy!

Richard

Re: Free DNN container ( wooden display cabinet ) and few DNN container enhancement questions

Richard Cox — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:04:14 GMT

Andy:

Believe it or not, Netscape it still anal retentive about it. (re: another post where we've changed most of the "standard" containers that are floating around to work on Netscape browswers)

Adobe creates a 1x1x1 .gif (in other words) transparent gif - color pallete 2 colors.

The color pallet even on an empty/transparent gif does make a difference. Go figure!

--Richard

Re: Free DNN container ( wooden display cabinet ) and few DNN container enhancement questions

jonahthecat — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:03:58 GMT

Interesting that you are using Telerik. I have purchased a couple of their controls but havent been able to get them to integrate with DNN. I want to user their menu and their editor to replace the similar components in DNN...
id love to see your code if its availbale to share : )

Re: Free DNN container ( wooden display cabinet ) and few DNN container enhancement questions

arschmidt — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:21:49 GMT

richard,

good point about the spacer image - i remember what a headache it was figuring out why navigator didn't render cells with backgrounds until there was some content. that was years ago and i don't know if navigator or other browsers still do that, but it is something i'll have to go back and take care of in my containers just in case.

as a total aside, i'd also like to know how that file gets compressed down to 43 bytes - the best i can manage is 85 for a 1 x 1 transparent gif (which is what 1x1.gif in the main dnn images directory is). nonetheless, for those of us who don't/won't have access to adobe products, the alternative is available in the standard dnn images.

andy

Re: Free DNN container ( wooden display cabinet ) and few DNN container enhancement questions

nokiko — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:11:17 GMT

Ah i see thet the answer is allready aswered, but you have a site that im working on as well. A site for people to register there baby upload photos etc etc. In our very unique pixel portal designs I present to you a new design

I know thst it doesnt look like the standard DNN portal but it will work on my new menu enhancement for dnn portals.

I have a topenu that renders a tabstrip of images or text

And then i have a dynamically loaded control that takes all the child items to n level of this hometab and then feed this to the telerik.com radpanelbar.

Its something we have used in our IBS portals before ( were known for our non standard cookie cutter ibs sites, now its time to do the same for dnn :) but give me a week or so and we will have it rewritten for dnn as well.

For the people requesting my free scripts, the site is coming lang the design is almost finished and when the side menu module enhancement is done we will put it live, see the new layout here.

I am also working a link index like fuzzysoftware.com its working in our ibs portal but should be finished for dnn as well around this weekedn. I think i will give it away fro free for people who buy our first dnn modules ( schwingconent 2.0 dnn [ templateable cms system ] ). Its no use selling it seperately because I saw the one from santry and i also saw the new version man I cannot even compete with that in functionality.

And everyone hold your horses I am going to make more container designs ( thanks for all the nice comments and emails ) but have a few ones to finish now that im getting paid to do weee ;)

Re: Free DNN container ( wooden display cabinet ) and few DNN container enhancement questions

Richard Cox — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 06:57:22 GMT

Good points Andy - I threw that document together really quick because someone asked how do you actually create a graphical container. One should also create a page. Now that I've created it, what the heck do I do with it. I simply forgot that Core doesn't have the container preview enhancement that Steve Fabian did.

Yes, Adobe has the nice benefit of automatically rendering a small spacer.gif file of 43 bytes in size for that purpose of placeholding an empty table cell.

--Richard

Re: Free DNN container ( wooden display cabinet ) and few DNN container enhancement questions

arschmidt — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 05:55:59 GMT

i don't know that there is a hard and fast rule about this, but there seemed to be a growing concensus when i created my containers (_way back_ in august) that the way to do it (and the way i set up my containers) is to create a containers subfolder in the portal directory, then create subdirectories for each container 'style' or 'group' under that. so for my site at arswebdesign.com, the portal directory is the default name '57ad7180-c5e7-49f5-b282-c6475cdb7ee7'. i have a 'containers' subdirectory under that. then for the single line container (as an example) there is a 'singleline' subdirectory in 'containers'. when i want to enclose a module with the single line container, i edit the module settings, scroll to the bottom, click on 'Edit Container' and replace the existing content with the text from the container.txt file for the single line container, update and enjoy.

i didn't go through all the material on the page you cited, but the advantage to using that method (as opposed to the one stated above) is that you don't have to repeat containers for each portal (which may be a distinct advantage if you have a lot of portals and plan to use them everywhere). regardless of how the container author set it up, it should just be a matter of modifying the html in the container.txt to point to the right folder depending on which way you decide to go. i would like to make an observation about a particular portion of that method in that then images used between the corners (top, bottom, left and right) only need to be one pixel wide/high (unless you've got a pattern that requires more) since they are used as background images and are automatically repeated to 'fill the bill'. sure they're small files, but every little bit helps (especially on a dial-up).

hope that helps,
andy

Re: Free DNN container ( wooden display cabinet ) and few DNN container enhancement questions

Richard Cox — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 05:25:30 GMT

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww congrats to you and your Misses!

The [MODULE] is text that is simply a placeholder for the module. You leave that in there, DNN takes care of that while rendering the page.

For implementing a container in core:
1. Figure out what container you want.
2. Open the container.txt in notepad and select-all and copy.
3. Go into Module Settings for the module in which you want the container to show up.
4. Select "Edit Container", and notice the textarea box then appears. Paste the text into there.
5. Select "Update"
6. You should have your container.

--Richard.