Two Simple (But Important) Suggestions

[.Darkman]

Hello All,
I have been using SMF for more than a Year now.
I didn't have any suggestion for all these days.
But today i seriously wanted to post this topic.
I have suggestions.

#1 Collapsing Categories
This is a really simple thing to be noticed. But i feel it very important.
When you try collapsing a category in any SMF Forum, the page reloads before the category is Collpased.
You can try collapsing a category at :

• http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php
• http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/
• http://forums.invisionpower.com/

I bet you will like the Latter two.

So i'd love to see this in SMF.
Even in SMF, collapse of the Info Center is Instantaneous. Categories should also have the ability.


#2 Manual Upgrade
This idea arose inside my mind when i recently upgraded my SMF from 1.1RC3 to 1.1.1
I had done lots of customizations on my forum. I had many Custom actions.
I made the forum accessible only thru index.php?action=forum
I had also done many changes to files in Sources directory.
But the upgrade script wanted me to replace the files during upgrade. So i lost all my customisations. I had to redo all of them.
So i'd like to have a feature to Manually upgrade our SMF. This would also help people who have large number of mods installed.


Please do consider these requests.



Thank you

[KGIII]

In answer to #2, the code changes to 1.1 were quite a few, even from the RC versions. You /probably/ could have gotten away with a manual upgrade from the RC3 but I suspect that it would have taken you a very very long time to generate difference files and then make the changes. I guess what I am saying is that you _could_ upgrade manually if you really wanted... (I too wish I'd been able to easily keep my theme, modifications, and the likes.)

[H]

#1 Collapsing Categories
This is a really simple thing to be noticed. But i feel it very important.
When you try collapsing a category in any SMF Forum, the page reloads before the category is Collpased.
You can try collapsing a category at :

    * http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php
    * http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/
    * http://forums.invisionpower.com/

I bet you will like the Latter two.

So i'd love to see this in SMF.
Even in SMF, collapse of the Info Center is Instantaneous. Categories should also have the ability.

I'm not a developer however I believe this is because SMF saves the category's that you collapse whereas vB and IPB only save the setting in a cookie. It could minimise before the page reload although only slow browsers would see this. I imagine you could make a custom script for your themes.

#2 Manual Upgrade
This idea arose inside my mind when i recently upgraded my SMF from 1.1RC3 to 1.1.1
I had done lots of customizations on my forum. I had many Custom actions.
I made the forum accessible only thru index.php?action=forum
I had also done many changes to files in Sources directory.
But the upgrade script wanted me to replace the files during upgrade. So i lost all my customisations. I had to redo all of them.
So i'd like to have a feature to Manually upgrade our SMF. This would also help people who have large number of mods installed.

You could make a diff file of the differences between vanilla RC3 and final and then patch manually

Ideally we would like to upgrade and keep mods in place if possible although obviously this would only have limited success.

[.Darkman]

In answer to #2, the code changes to 1.1 were quite a few, even from the RC versions. You /probably/ could have gotten away with a manual upgrade from the RC3 but I suspect that it would have taken you a very very long time to generate difference files and then make the changes. I guess what I am saying is that you _could_ upgrade manually if you really wanted... (I too wish I'd been able to easily keep my theme, modifications, and the likes.)

Atleast SMF's upgrade script should be able to execute modifications on necessary files instead of replacing them totally.

I'm not a developer however I believe this is because SMF saves the category's that you collapse whereas vB and IPB only save the setting in a cookie. It could minimise before the page reload although only slow browsers would see this. I imagine you could make a custom script for your themes.

Even SMF stores it in cookis i suppose. And it is, of course, a theme related issue.
Check out Pn-Pn by Koni - http://koni.s25.xrea.com/forum/index.php?theme=6
It has what i wanted.That is what i wanted as default in SMF

[.Darkman]

Okay, i took a look at Pn-Pn over here : http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=5

But i couldn't understand how it has been implemented. So could anyone help me out with this ?


Thanks,

[青山 素子]

Without poking too hard (I'm rather busy right now), each set of boards is in a tbody. When clicked, it looks like that specific tbody's display style is set to none. There is also some other stuff done to save the state for the user.

Pre-release SMF versions don't get package updates, release versions do. The upgrade from 1.1 Beta 1 to 1.1 RC3 to 1.1 final is done via file replacement, but 1.1 to 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 is via a package.

The only exception I can think is of any patches from a charter release (fixing bugs repaired in the public release) or an emergency patch during the pre-release stage.

[.Darkman]

Without poking too hard (I'm rather busy right now), each set of boards is in a tbody. When clicked, it looks like that specific tbody's display style is set to none. There is also some other stuff done to save the state for the user.

I'm not good at javascript. So i didn't understand this.
Will you be able to explain in detail later when you are free ?