By edegids on
I post my question here because I really no idea where to put this. I have tried a series of modules (and themes) but I get nowhere. I want to recolor themes, like Garland, Minelli and Painted Wall. I installed color.module, colorpicker and even cck (and color_scheme, but for a different reason) but in the site configuration>color scheme settings>colorable and extensions I only see the headers, but no fields or dropdowns. When configuring the themes, there is also no way to change colors.
What am I doing wrong???
Because I'm using different modules now, it's possible I mix up some things, but I have tried to selectively enable the modules, and it still doesn't work.
Is there anyone who can help?
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Did you check?
To make sure that your theme is colorable? The three that you listed are, but not all themes are compatible with the Color module.
"The color picker only works if the download method is set to public." That's the message you get if your download method is private. Are you using the public download method?
CCK isn't used for coloring. Color Scheme API isn't something you should be installing unless (I believe) another module requires it. Color Picker states "This module is not intended to allow users to change the theme or anything else like that."
And I'm not sure what you're using that would provide that menu path.
check!
Hi! Thank you for your reply.
I used these themes to test the color.module because I knew the were recolorable. So I set the default theme on the website on Minelli (and tested the others too).
I checked the file system download method: public. I've read many topics regarding problems with the color module and tried everything, that's why I tried the Color Picker and when enabling the Color Picker it says it needs CCK for the widget. That's why I added CCK, I thought that maybe it was the color picker that I was missing. But the color picker didn't solve anything. I disabled both Color Schema API and Color Picker, by the way.
About the menu path, the url is actually /admin/settings/schemes. What I described was how to get there by the navigation menu. But I'm not sure if this color scheme settings belongs to the color.module or to another module. Could you help me out with that?
Can you confirm that the place to change colors of a theme is the 'configuration'-tab of the theme? (which is mostly empty here...)
Got nuthin
admin/settings/schemes isn't used by Color module. And, yes, admin/build/themes/settings/garland (for example), would be where you change the color. I have 10 options under Toggle Display, plus Logo Image and Shortcut Icon settings, for Garland, in addition to the color settings (when I switch to private downloads). Don't know why it won't work for you.
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The colorpicker module does not do what you think it does-- as described right on the project page. Disable and uninstall it.
Disable any contrib modules, use the garland theme (make sure its set to both 'enabled' and 'default'), visit admin/build/themes/settings/garland, and post a screenshot of what you see there. Also, check the permissions on your 'files' directory and try using the upload module to attach a file to a node.
STUPID!
Why didn't I think of this earlier? Someone told me he had seen a colormodule in the optional core modules. I read that somewhere, but couldn't find one in my installation. (I had installed the extension module color.module... thought that was the way to do it) Later I realized that the extensionmodule color.module had a file color.module. Exactly the same name as the optional core module! So I uninstalled and deleted all the extension modules regarding colors, and.... tadaa.... the optional core module color reappeared. I enabled it and MIRACLE! Everything works.
But WHY name an extension module exactly the same as a core module? And why is this not documented somewhere?
Thanks for all the help. I really hope I help others with this solution.