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Greasemonkey Scripts For vB: Now With A "I Can't Believe It's Not Fusetalk" Script

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Ken g6 said:
I've been working on a style-changing script too, but instead of looking forward to something new, this one looks back to FuseTalk. I changed just about everything I thought was practical; although I'm planning to look at hg403's scripts in more detail later. And I hope it doesn't break anything. 🙂
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Wow, I actually like this quite a bit.

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The FT look script is awesome. So awesome that it should be put into vB by Derek and pals. In fact, it's a shame they didn't do something like this themselves as it took a user a couple of minutes to do it.
 
Leros said:
Ken g6 said:
I've been working on a style-changing script too, but instead of looking forward to something new, this one looks back to FuseTalk. I changed just about everything I thought was practical; although I'm planning to look at hg403's scripts in more detail later. And I hope
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Can you make the alternating color threads more defined or are my eyes or color settings off?

Thanks for your work btw 🙂
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DivideBYZero said:
...it took a user a couple of days to do it.
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Fixed.

Supporting IE would be hard, not least because I'd have to test in IE, and I'm running Linux. Also, as I recall, IE's Javascript development tools are virtually nonexistent.

Edit: I'm not sure how joshsquall got alternating colors; I never put that in there, because I never saw it on FuseTalk.
 
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Ken g6 said:
Edit: I'm not sure how joshsquall got alternating colors; I never put that in there, because I never saw it on FuseTalk.
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Ah, ok then. I used to see alternating white/gray every other thread and post. Made it easier to read.
 
Ken g6 said:
Fixed.

Supporting IE would be hard, not least because I'd have to test in IE, and I'm running Linux. Also, as I recall, IE's Javascript development tools are virtually nonexistent.

Edit: I'm not sure how joshsquall got alternating colors; I never put that in there, because I never saw it on FuseTalk.
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Yeah, I was exaggerating. Well done, BTW, nice effort!
 
I've posted an update to my FTLook script.

The biggest change is that some columns are rearranged in thread lists. I broke out the FP into a separate column, like FuseTalk used to do. I recall somebody wanted topics listed on their own; this does that.

Also, I incorporated ViRGE's link color change, and I moved all the colors into variables at the top of the script. This way one can change the colors easily. For instance, if somebody wants thread listings with alternating colors, just change the colThreadAltBG to something like "#DDDDDD".

It also seems like when I was logged into the old forums the color scheme was different. More deep blues, I think. The problem is I don't recall having any screenshots of the old forums. I have the Wayback Machine, but of course it only shows the default look. So if anyone does have screenshots specifically of the blue-themed forums, could you please let me see them by post or PM?
 
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Ken g6 said:
Fixed.

Supporting IE would be hard, not least because I'd have to test in IE, and I'm running Linux. Also, as I recall, IE's Javascript development tools are virtually nonexistent.

Edit: I'm not sure how joshsquall got alternating colors; I never put that in there, because I never saw it on FuseTalk.
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The mod looks good 🙂

:beer;
 
Ken g6 said:
I've posted an update to my FTLook script.

The biggest change is that some columns are rearranged in thread lists. I broke out the FP into a separate column, like FuseTalk used to do. I recall somebody wanted topics listed on their own; this does that.

Also, I incorporated ViRGE's link color change, and I moved all the colors into variables at the top of the script. This way one can change the colors easily. For instance, if somebody wants thread listings with alternating colors, just change the colThreadAltBG to something like "#DDDDDD".

It also seems like when I was logged into the old forums the color scheme was different. More deep blues, I think. The problem is I don't recall having any screenshots of the old forums. I have the Wayback Machine, but of course it only shows the default look. So if anyone does, could you please let me see them by post or PM?
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Ken, is the narrower top bar intentional? It seems like that bar should be as wide as the posts themselves.

This is on Firefox 3.5.
 

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ViRGE said:
Ken, is the narrower top bar intentional? It seems like that bar should be as wide as the posts themselves.
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No, that's not intentional. But I don't see that. I'm also on Firefox 3.5, but I see what Leros sees in this post.

That said, I think I may be able to fix it sight-unseen! Try downloading the version I just uploaded. 🙂 (I need a crossed-fingers smilie about now. 😱)
 
Weird. Anyhow, it's still happening in the new script. The post table is getting wider, but not the top bar (or the half-invisible bar at the bottom that contains Post Reply and the page numbers).
 
Really do like the look and feel of what you did Ken, and I appreciate the efforts. The dealbreaker for me though is when I see the default design for a brief second as it loads and then it finally gets to loading your script ...does that happen to or bother anyone else?
 
Ken g6 said:
It also seems like when I was logged into the old forums the color scheme was different. More deep blues, I think. The problem is I don't recall having any screenshots of the old forums. I have the Wayback Machine, but of course it only shows the default look. So if anyone does, could you please let me see them by post or PM?
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I don't have any myself, but I searched bbzzdd for anandtech and found the following:

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ViRGE said:
Weird. Anyhow, it's still happening in the new script. The post table is getting wider, but not the top bar (or the half-invisible bar at the bottom that contains Post Reply and the page numbers).
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OK, I'm trying again at the same URL. Thanks for mentioning that, by the way. I did see the shrunken bottom area, and fixed that. I also noticed the sides had too much gray space and fixed that too. Finally, I think I've made the top bar's colors more consistent.

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Really do like the look and feel of what you did Ken, and I appreciate the efforts. The dealbreaker for me though is when I see the default design for a brief second as it loads and then it finally gets to loading your script ...does that happen to or bother anyone else?
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Apparently that's impossible to fix in Firefox. Supposedly something can be done in Chromium (open-source Chrome), but I couldn't even get this script to run, in SRWare Iron for Linux beta.

Oh, and kalrith, thanks for the screenshots; but none of them are the blue theme. (Or maybe my memory's playing tricks on me?) Anyway, I clarified my earlier post.
 
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Ken g6 said:
OK, I'm trying again at the same URL. Thanks for mentioning that, by the way. I did see the shrunken bottom area, and fixed that. I also noticed the sides had too much gray space and fixed that too. Finally, I think I've made the top bar's colors more consistent.



Apparently that's impossible to fix in Firefox. Supposedly something can be done in Chromium (open-source Chrome), but I couldn't even get this script to run, in SRWare Iron for Linux beta.

Oh, and kalrith, thanks for the screenshots; but none of them are the blue theme. (Or maybe my memory's playing tricks on me?) Anyway, I clarified my earlier post.
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That did it, thanks.🙂

Now if I could just convince Derek to make a real theme out of this.😉
 
I should probably mention that I uploaded one more version, to improve the colors of Notices and the search results page.

I should also probably mention a change I made to my copy of the Image Resizer script. I changed line 37 from:
Code: 
aImg[j].title = 'Click for the original size';
to
Code: 
if(aImg[j].title == '') aImg[j].title = 'Click for the original size';
. This allows you to mouseover normal vBulletin icons for their tooltips.
 
I like the scripts but I just can't get over the 'lag' in rendering the scripts after the page is loaded.
 
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