From: shane <sh...@lo...> - 2003-10-20 11:33:41
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On Saturday 18 October 2003 21:57, Ralph Dratman wrote: > Thanks to Cliff and Shane for comments about the color changes by Topic. > > Unfortunately, I don't have any funding for a plugin at the moment. > Maybe later, if things work out with the site. > > As I think about this color requirement, I realize that I may have > been wrong to assume that I need Topic colors. Although Topics seem > logical for what I have in mind, I guess I should consider using > Sections since they already can have colors associated with them. > > Why do Section colors currently show up only when one is actually > browsing within a particular section, rather than when sections are > mixed into the main area? They're not mixed. When you look at the index page of most slash-based websites, it shows stories and slashboxes. The stories it shows are the latested N (depending on users_index.maxstories), and depending on whether or not the latest stories are marked as 'show in section only'. So when the index page is generated, that is actually generating the page for 'section=index'. When you click on a story that's in a 'stories' section, then you're viewing any templates that are marked as section=stories, and that's where you get your cosmetic changes. > The key point - and I apologize for not making this clear before - is > that I need to mix colors on the main page. Each Story must be > assigned to a grouping which has its own color. Are the colors random? Do they need to always be the same given topic __n___? Are they shown by story # {1..n}? Need more info here. > What would it take to mix colors on the main page, with different > story colors right there, depending on each story's Section - or > Topic - or something? That's the question - what do you want it to depend on? That affects what/where you'd have to change in the src and/or templates. Shane |