Graphical Skin Editor?

[joe_m]

I've found skinning to be the only dislike in IPB - it's very complex and there's so much to change.

I'd like to see a graphical skin editor, where you can click in or on something and get some options to change whatever it is you're on. Perhaps show the effects of your change on reload as well.

Or at the least, a graphical skin editor guide which shows every setting - for example, when looking at the main index, or a post, or whatever - with pointers such as "navbar", "bodytext", etc etc.

And where you can change it - in the html templates, css.........

Thanks for listening. :ph34r:

[wanazrif]

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[Wolfie]

Anyone got a Malay-to-English translator?

[Rob_BCFC]

A WYSIWYG skinning editor would be brilliant but possible difficult to implement.

[elj]

Something like Rikki's flash guide he did for the KB built into IPB - or even just linked as a page in the ACP - would be fabulous.

[Antony]

A WYSIWYG skinning editor would be brilliant but possible difficult to implement.

Matt has probably been on the verge of screaming becuase of the WYSIWIG Editor, we don't want to make him go through the pain of a mental breakdown trying to build a Skinning Editor. :lol:

[Ernest Defoe]

Would be a cool feature, but probably very difficult to implement. Maybe in a future version sometime on down the road after Matt has had a nice long relaxing vacation after doing the WYSIWYG Text Editor for IPB 2.1

[damien245uk]

I can see it being way too hard to implement - even the stand-alone WYSIWYG applications for producing web pages are often very limited in what they can do. Ultimately you always end up reverting to hand-coding if you want to do anything half-decent.

I have to hold my hand up and say I haven't looked at the docs for skinning, but personally I would find it easier if there was some graphical reference system which will show you which thing is in which template section/file as it isn't always obvious from the name.

Perhaps a mode of the forums where you can click on stuff and it pops up and says which template it is from? Understand?

[Antony]

Sorry Wanazif, we can only understand you (most of us), if you speak in english.

Yes, Skinning in IPB is slightly annoying at times. Hopefully in 3.0 this will be improved.

[Rob_BCFC]

It would be difficult to implement this but maybe if it was in a Flash file it could be a bit easier?