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@lostking329 Sorry, I can't really provide support for custom theme on this plugin. You may do best to ask the developer of the theme for assistance.

17 minutes ago, JohnDar said:

I'm running Invision version 4.4.9.1 and I'm having an issue (in Snow version 1.3.2) where the snow doesn't stop at the bottom of the page. It continues falling forever and causes the browser window (Chrome) to infinitely extend downwards to accommodate the flakes. This happens on the default theme. Snow version 1.3.1 works fine.

Known issue, a good workaround is to limit the snow to just the header of your forum. See the settings window, I explain how to do this there.

Try experimenting with other target CSS class elements, too.

@lostking329 It will depend on the theme, and they position correctly in the default theme. You should look at where the lights are being injected first into your theme, and see if you can't centre the div yourself. Not everyone will want centering on the lights div, so I'm not sure it's the right thing to do for everyone.

I'm about to be offline for over a week and am not really in the position to push out a potentially broken update at the moment.

I'm sorry, I meant disabling the "snow sticks" option and/or the "melt" and "twinkle" effects. It's ossible to disable the mouse follow, but I haven't exposed that in the settings window (yet).

@lostking329 Glad it works for you :)

@SimplyCS I can't add support for every custom theme...you'll have to look at how it inserts itself into the standard theme, and modify your theme to make it work. Sorry...

Hi @lostking329, these are known issues. I didn't write the original JavaScript, and I can't offer support for it. I can only get it working as a plugin for IPS. You can work around the "infinite scrolling" bug by limiting it to display only in the header. The "stuck flakes" occurs fairly rarely, but if you turn off some of the animation options (such as follow mouse, etc.) you can avoid it most of the time.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Hi SimplyCS,

Does it work on your forum on the Default theme? I can't support custom themes at this time for this theme. I know that it should work with an IPS Focus purchased theme.

Deck the halls with lots of twinkle lights, fa la la....

Christmas Lights has been updated to 1.2.0! It now works properly with IPS 4.4.

Happy holidays!

Ho ho ho! Snow has been updated to 1.3.2! It now works properly with IPS 4.4.

Happy holidays!

Hi everyone,

Year-end crunch hit early this year, so my plans to review this plugin and Christmas Lights before December 1 got way-laid.

I hope to get to this in the next day or two. Thanks for the continued interest!

Hi everyone,

Year-end crunch hit early this year, so my plans to review this plugin and Snow before December 1 got way-laid.

I hope to get to this in the next day or two. Thanks for the continued interest!

Thanks! We actually haven't moved to 4.4 yet...once we do I'll be sure to fix this. It's usually something trivial. Should be in time for the holidays ;)

Are you using the default skin? I can't guarantee that this plugin works with any other skin, sorry. I've tested that it works with the default skin under the latest IPS release today.

I'll look into it, but no promises.

OK, found a compat issue with the 4.2 themes, same as with the Snow plugin. 1.1.1 uploaded to work around this issue.

You may have to flush your theme cache in the Support section of the ACP to regenerate your site's themes after uploading v1.1.1.

Hi again @broni same questions as I asked you in the other thread. On my test forum it works fine in 4.2.6.

• What theme?
• What browser?
• What settings in the plugin panel?
• Screenshot

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@superj707:

3 minutes ago, superj707 said:

Will there be an option for users to turn it off just for their own account?

The best option is to use the ACP to copy your site's default theme, then go to the xmas lights settings panel and ensure the theme is disabled for that copy:

Then, users can switch to the theme that has the lights disabled.

Hope this helps!

@broni I need more detail:

• Which theme
• Which browser
• What settings have you set in the plugin's settings panel
• Screenshot

Weird, looks like something in the IPS responsive theme is force-overriding the colour attribute.

I have a workaround and have just uploaded v1.3.1 to fix it. Thanks for reporting it!

NOTE: I discovered that on a recent enough Android device, because emoji have fixed colours, you may be unable to override the colour of a snowflake that is an emoji, such as ❄. In this case, I recommend using a different, non-emoji character as your snowflake, such as •  instead.

Xmas Lights seem to be working just fine in 4.2.6. If anyone has any pre-holiday issues, let me know.

OK! It was an easy fix, just a minor JavaScript error.

New v1.3.0 uploaded:

• Fixes for 4.2.x
• New bigger snowflake by default! ❄
• Re-targeted the entire body instead of just the header by default. For the previous behaviour, target ipsLayout_header instead of ipsLayout_body.

Sample picture of the new bigger snowflake attached.

Just now, EmpireKickass said:

4 years later  

Um, I posted an update in 2016? Almost exactly a year ago...

1 hour ago, Square Wheels said:

That's it, I filed a complaint asking for my money back.

I feel so bad, you've been refunded double what you paid.

My guess is that the location setting needs updating for the new 4.2.x themes, should be fairly straightforward.

@EmpireKickass Yup, just give me a day or two...c'mon people, it's a free plugin, and I do have a job

Sure, I'll have a look.

8 hours ago, Shyuan said:

Hi @wohali my members love the snow effect! Thank you. Just a question though, is it possible to have the snow on entire screen instead of just one HTML element ID? By default, it's only the header. I tried adding ipsLayout_body and document.body separating them by comma but it won't work. Any advice would be much appreciated.

No, not easily. To target multiple HTML elements I'd need to instantiate multiple copies of the JS snow effect. This JS implementation is already kind of a pig on browsers, so multiple instances will *really* slow things down.

35 minutes ago, EmpireKickass said:

Works great but not for all the themes. doesn't work with one custom theme of mine

Yeah, I can't test this against all themes out there...especially commercial ones that I don't have the budget to purchase. Sorry about that :/