Hi everyone. I'm loving my DBTech products and am look forward to the updates each weekend. I thought I would take a moment to share with you all a little space saver I discovered for my forum. You see, after installing so many mods to my forum my postbit area looks a little huge. You can see the same thing happening on this forum, in that a response that takes up one line is created in a post area that takes up half of the screen, thanks to the engorged postbit area.
What I used to take care of this problem was a mod on vb.org called DJ's Dynamic Tab Content for Postbit_Legacy. The installation is a little bit of a hassle, as you have to manually edit and move around a fair amount of code to get the effect you want, but the end result is a postbit area with tabs, and you can click on each tab to reveal a different block of information. Right now I have my basic stats on the first tab, which takes up only a little space, and most of my activity and statistics on a second tab, with plans to add more tabs as I install more mods.
As much as I appreciate the original author of this mod, I would really like to see something similar and improved from DBTech. Most of DBTech's products focus on one hook in the postbit area, which means it is very difficult to split apart information into separate tabs. For example, let's say I want my regular Activity stats in one tab, and an entire separate tab dedicated to achievements and medals. Right now I haven't been able to achieve that (no pun intended), because I don't know what to edit to make achievements not be locked to that same hook as the regular Activity bars.
One feature that is rather bugged in the mod I recommended is the automatic tab rotation. I guess it causes a lot of trouble, so I haven't even attempted to use it. If I could make auto-rotation work and give my users an option to turn rotation on or off within the postbit would be pretty useful for sharing info about my users. Another feature that would be great (and the original author doesn't look to have time for maybe) would be the ability to edit tab contents from within an admin control panel area, rather than editing the postbit legacy template itself.
Most importantly though, is that if DBTech came out with its own version of this kind of modification, they (you) could make it so all DBTech products are easily and automatically integrated into the tabs, removing the need to mess with hooks and lines of code.
Whether or not this suggestion is taken up, in the meantime I still suggest the above mod for anyone using a lot of modifications that add to their postbit area. It is a huge space saver without losing any content, which is vital with all the great products out there waiting to be imported into VB.
What I used to take care of this problem was a mod on vb.org called DJ's Dynamic Tab Content for Postbit_Legacy. The installation is a little bit of a hassle, as you have to manually edit and move around a fair amount of code to get the effect you want, but the end result is a postbit area with tabs, and you can click on each tab to reveal a different block of information. Right now I have my basic stats on the first tab, which takes up only a little space, and most of my activity and statistics on a second tab, with plans to add more tabs as I install more mods.
As much as I appreciate the original author of this mod, I would really like to see something similar and improved from DBTech. Most of DBTech's products focus on one hook in the postbit area, which means it is very difficult to split apart information into separate tabs. For example, let's say I want my regular Activity stats in one tab, and an entire separate tab dedicated to achievements and medals. Right now I haven't been able to achieve that (no pun intended), because I don't know what to edit to make achievements not be locked to that same hook as the regular Activity bars.
One feature that is rather bugged in the mod I recommended is the automatic tab rotation. I guess it causes a lot of trouble, so I haven't even attempted to use it. If I could make auto-rotation work and give my users an option to turn rotation on or off within the postbit would be pretty useful for sharing info about my users. Another feature that would be great (and the original author doesn't look to have time for maybe) would be the ability to edit tab contents from within an admin control panel area, rather than editing the postbit legacy template itself.
Most importantly though, is that if DBTech came out with its own version of this kind of modification, they (you) could make it so all DBTech products are easily and automatically integrated into the tabs, removing the need to mess with hooks and lines of code.
Whether or not this suggestion is taken up, in the meantime I still suggest the above mod for anyone using a lot of modifications that add to their postbit area. It is a huge space saver without losing any content, which is vital with all the great products out there waiting to be imported into VB.
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