New Themes

Posted by Gary on Sun 01 of Apr, 2007 16:46 GMT-0000 posts: 13

If the menu is white, that means that you did not create a menu that uses menuId=43. You are actually seeing an error message in white. The distribution only creates the main menu which is menuId=42. But this menu is sooo long that it looks bad in the twist theme. So I set it to use menu 43.

You need to create a new menu (Admin -> Menu). If you want to use other than menuId=43, then edit templates/styles/template/tiki-top_bar.tpl and change the 43 to the appropriate number.

gary

Posted by Marc Laporte on Sat 02 of Jun, 2007 02:10 GMT-0000 posts: 38

This should be solved in Tiki 1.9.8
http://cia.vc/stats/project/tikiwiki/.message/55783d

Posted by Gary on Mon 02 of Apr, 2007 04:14 GMT-0000 posts: 13

The menuId is unique, so you cannot have two menus with the same id. But you can use the permissions field of a menu item to set whether it displays or not. Look at the original menu (id = 42) and see how this is implemented.

gary

Posted by Gary on Mon 02 of Apr, 2007 04:35 GMT-0000 posts: 13

Look at the kubrick.css file and change the styles (I use red for demonstration)

menu bar background color

.horbaritem a: {background-color: red;}

menu item background color

.mdkitem { background-color: red;}

I would recommend using Firefox as a browser, and use the EditCSS and ColorPicker plugin to tweak the colors on the fly. These plugins are very useful.

gary

Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee on Tue 03 of Apr, 2007 00:56 GMT-0000 posts: 254

I wrote a reply 24 hours ago but apparently just previewed instead of posted. I hate when that happens. 😉

For the top row of menu items ("section" items when configuring the menu), the relevant CSS selectors are div.horbar (the whole row), and div.horbaritem (each separate item). The black background in the hover state is due to the .horbaritem property, which needs to be changed for your site (.horbaritem a:hover specifically).

(When you aren't sure of the CSS selectors being used, look at the source of the page in your browser ("View Page Source" or the equivalent). In a big page, I select and copy some of the affected text in the page viewed normally, then switch to the page source view window/tab and paste the copied text into the "Find" dialog. That lets me zero in on the relevant lines of the source pretty fast.)

-- Gary

Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee on Thu 05 of Apr, 2007 04:30 GMT-0000 posts: 254

We Garys aren't really interchangeable, but I'll respond since I'm here already. 😉 The color chooser isn't a Tiki plugin, but a Firefox add-on. You can get it by clicking "Add-ons" under the "Tools" item in Firefox's menu.

After downloading it and installing it (an easy process within Firefox), you get an eyedropper icon in the bottom left corner of the browser screen. When you click it, the mouse pointer turns into a crosshair and information is reported in the browser status bar including the RBG and hex codes of the color under the pointer, its page coordinates, and the div or other object being hovered over.

As far as I know, it doesn't enable any editing, but is more of an analysis tool.

-- Gary/chibaguy