[Update]

Here is the E-Blah Template Editor Beta 3 release. The interface was kept pretty much the same in this release as in Beta 2. This release was more of an upgrade to E-Blah 10.3.5 and a few bug fixes. This release includes updated support for E-Blah 10.3.5. It generates valid xhtml and css for use with both E-Blah 10.2.5 and E-Blah 10.3.5. There has also been a few additions to the theme generation wizard for more customization. There is more of a description of updates in help.txt included with the attached zip. Please let me know of any issues or suggestions regarding this release. I am trying very hard to make a good quality program. I need users to test the program and try to break it so I can fix it. If you break it, that's good. That means I can improve the program even more. I also want to include custom features to make life easier.

Here is a link to the latest version of the E-Blah Template Editor: http://www.blah-themes.com/downloads/templateeditor/beta/beta3.zip

great to see someone done this, i was just thinking to myself, why hasn't someone made a simple theme editor then i found this post, editing themes and variables on eblah seems quite difficult unless u know what your doing and it can be very frustrating as there seems to be no guide to explain it all, it would be great to have maybe even an online theme editor where u have a forum u can view but have like little boxes where u can enter the colours u want or titles etc, rather than have to edit the HTMl directly, it would make eblah alot more welcoming and user friendly. i will check out your new program now, hope it will make my life a bit easier.
but u ask for any input of features we would like to see well i'd like to see a graphical editor where u can actually be viewing the forum u are changing without the need to known any html or colour codes, like typing the colour name would be better or clicking on the colour u need etc.

just had a go on it but i think i need something a bit more simply, i'm very good with computers and know a little html but still find this very difficult, all i want to do is change my colours and a few other simply things like add pictures or maybe background pictures but finding it very hard to do, thanks for putting you program up tho im sure it will help lots of people, it would be nice if you incorporated a view button so u could just view what your template looked like, is there anywhere i can get a How To guide on eblah? i basically want to know exactly what the different templates do, and which ones i need to edit etc. i did manage to change all the colours on my forum a few months back but found it very hard to do and was a matter of just messing about, would love to find a guide on how to do all this........

Thanks for you input. I hope to have a graphical editor ready within the next few releases. I will also see if I can make the theme generation wizard easier to manage as well. I will add features to have a background image and also a header image. I was just kind of putting my program out there and wanted to see what else I should put in there. Thanks much for your review.

Upcoming features I would like to see:
-colored coding within the editor like dreamweaver
-quick changing of values within a css template
-ftp uploading to user's server
-visual theme editor
-preview theme button
- and much more as I think of them

I will try and get some of these that I mentioned ready for the next release within the next week or two. I have school starting up next week and may not be able to spend too much time updating the program. If anyone would like to help with development of this, please pm me here or give me an email. Thanks much.

Looks great still playing with it so i will give a proper review later.

Admin what you think of this?

WhiteKnight

I think this is a great start... well done. for Noobs, well I use a hex colour finder, and there are many free ones, that you can down load.

I will try to add a hex color finder to this program eventually. I just have to figure out how to convert rgb colors to hex. I bet that it's not too hard.

Ok, I got the rgb to hex converter so now users can pick colors with the windows color chooser and it converts to html hex colors. Note: At the moment, this is for the only wizard. My next task is to allow users to edit individual colors of the forum with a few clicks of a button, preventing them from having to find the line of code in the css template.

In case any of you were having problems running this application like me, here is a pretty simply fix that should take care you.

I had an error message prompting me that richtx32.ocx was missing and could not be found on my system. I remember running into this similar problem executing some other visual basic programs in the past while using XP. All you need to do is install a newer version of those files to fix the missing files that are not part of most system installs including Windows XP download from the link below.

• 1) Download the file from here: http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vb6/richtx32.cab
  
• 2) Extract both those files to your windows/system (Windows 95, 98, ME) or windows/system32 (Windows XP, etc) directory (*This is probably optional, see below for more info)
  
• 3) Right-click on the "RICHTX32.INF" file and choose "Install" from the right-click menu.
  

*When I did this install, I forgot to do step 2 and installed from the root of my C Drive which went just fine. The paths listed above is where the file will be copied and setup to when you run the .inf file listed just in the rare chance the .ini file doesn't copy the file right for you.

That all you need to do and it works just fine for me and I am starting to get used to working with this promising theme editor.
Hope this little mini-guide helps anyone else out there that was having the same problem like I was having.

Hi KyleOdin

thanks for that Ihad that problem and that fixed nice one

davy

What were you using to write this? Looks like a really old version of VB

Anyways, when I get a chance I'll write an installer.

Seems like a very complicated fix. For the time being, why not just get the VB6 runtime? I'm trying to make a VB .NET version. I am not as skilled with VB .NET as I am with VB6 though. Once I make the VB .NET version, all you will need is the .NET 2.0 Runtime which is designed for Windows XP.

That is really neat.  Have you done any more work on it?

Yeah. I'm working on converting the code from VB 6 to VB .NET. I'll upload as soon as I'm done with that. It may not be for a little bit as I am in school, but I will try to upload it as soon as possible. I will try incorporating some more features as well.

Nice.  I would suggest that you (eventually) expand it to actually show a screen that looks like a forum and shows them the colors.   Or at least give an image that identifies what each css changes.  It would be hard to do, and I have tried to do it several times via html, but have never succeeded.

-Craig.