Advanced Forum 6.x-1.x-dev and Artisteer themes fix (does not fix 6.x-2 yet) [#790982]

Turned out that it is a bug in the style.css that artisteer creates.

If you are using an artisteer theme, you need to edit your theme's style.css files. Look for the following:

/* begin PostBullets */
/* Start Content list */

come down below that and find where it says

li
{
margin:0.2em 0;
padding:0;
}

and change it to:

ul li
{
margin:0.2em 0;
line-height: 1em;
padding: 10px 0 10px 14px;
background-image: url('images/PostBullets.png');
background-repeat:no-repeat;
padding-left:16px;
}

Should solve the issue of bullets not showing up in forum posts.

Then, based on this info from http://drupal.org/node/436294, Instead of tagging the post content area as they used "Sheet" in their generated style.css. The workaround for this is to simply go into the naked themes directory, and open advf-forum-post.tpl.php file and change the following:

Find:

<div class="sheet">
<?php print $content ?>
/div>

and change the div class to

<div class="sheet">
    <?php print $content ?>
/div>

then in your artisteer theme, In page.tpl.php replace line

<?php
if (($is_front) || (isset($node) && isset($node->nid))):
?>

with

<?php
if (($is_front) || (isset($node) && isset($node->nid) && $node->type != 'forum')):
?>

The bullets are now lining up as they should..

Will update the 6.x-2 branch as soon as I can figure out the issue of missing navagation area at the bottom of the page for previous/next message.
Thanks to the origional posters on both the Drupal.org forums and also those over at the artisteer forums.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#6	Default_Black.zip	141.38 KB	greywolfsspirit
#6	ValentinesDay.zip	202.89 KB	greywolfsspirit
#6	Easter.zip	163.65 KB	greywolfsspirit

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Comments

Comment #1

greywolfsspirit CreditAttribution: greywolfsspirit commented 5 May 2010 at 22:19

grrr.. hate when I goof on a post and catch after I save it..
correction above:

The workaround for this is to simply go into the naked themes directory, and open advf-forum-post.tpl.php file and change the following:

Find:

<div class="content">
<?php print $content ?>
/div>

and change the div class to

<div class="sheet">
    <?php print $content ?>
/div>

Comment #2

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

CreditAttribution: Michelle commented 6 May 2010 at 01:13

Component:	Code	» Documentation
Category:	support	» task

Sheet? WTF... LOL! I'll add it to the troubleshooting section in the docs. Not changing the AF template to sheet, sorry. :)

Michelle

Comment #3

greywolfsspirit CreditAttribution: greywolfsspirit commented 6 May 2010 at 02:31

I agree, Michelle, that it should go in troubleshooting docs, and not for you to change YOUR sourcecode. Just a Troubleshooting for use with Artisteer based themes. Yeah, Artisteer has some strange calls in it. If it wasn't for it being super easy to develop themes with, I wouldn't have bothered. But for those of us with little to no experience with coding css and all that, it's a great tool to give admins the ability to customize their site pretty nicely. But, as with all things that make life easier on some things, it does come at a price of incompatibility issues. I really wish they would consult with developers of Drupal themes, and figure out how to get it to export to a more 'conforming' theme. What is going on is, Artisteer uses a 'bare-bones' css file, but its a real screwed up looking beast at best. I've been toying with the idea of trying to find a true drupal barebone css file for themes, and place that into artisteer and see if it will build the themes more in line with how they should work (ie: Garland).

But, I have a few other things I'm working on at the moment where I just don't have the time to tinker around with it at the present time.

As I stated, this is my efforts to try to help out the best I can with what I have figured out so far. I'm trying to get them to play together in the sandbox without fighting, honest I am lol.

Comment #4

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

CreditAttribution: Michelle commented 6 May 2010 at 02:38

I appreciate your help. I don't have Artisteer so it's hard for me to tell what's going on. If you don't mind uploading one of your themes, I can toss it on my dev site and see if I can find anything.

Michelle

Comment #5

greywolfsspirit CreditAttribution: greywolfsspirit commented 6 May 2010 at 04:04

You can find my themes on this page, Michelle..

http://moonlightway.homeip.net/?q=node/588

Take your pick.. They are all set to where they should work with the 6.x-1.dev version.

Comment #6

greywolfsspirit CreditAttribution: greywolfsspirit commented 6 May 2010 at 13:03

File	Size
Easter.zip	163.65 KB
ValentinesDay.zip	202.89 KB
Default_Black.zip	141.38 KB

In case you couldnt get the files, here's my default_black and my Valentine's day, and Easter themes for you to work with on your dev. site, Michelle.
the default_black has been (attempted) to be made where it's a scalable width theme that works from 1024 x 768 or greater. I haven't figured out how to change fixed width to floating width where it allows me to have the boarders yet, that I use on the holiday themes..

and giving you a heads-up, here are all the region areas that these themes have:
regions[left] = Left sidebar
regions[right] = Right sidebar
regions[content] = Content
regions[navigation] = Menu
regions[banner1] = Banner 1
regions[banner2] = Banner 2
regions[banner3] = Banner 3
regions[banner4] = Banner 4
regions[banner5] = Banner 5
regions[banner6] = Banner 6
regions[user1] = User 1
regions[user2] = User 2
regions[user3] = User 3
regions[user4] = User 4
regions[copyright] = Copyright
regions[top1] = Top 1
regions[top2] = Top 2
regions[top3] = Top 3
regions[bottom1] = Bottom 1
regions[bottom2] = Bottom 2
regions[bottom3] = Bottom 3