Unfortunately the smartpix feature seems to be rather unreliable, as we recently found out on our university moodle server
. I would not recommend its use.
Joseph
Eloy > ... Announce everywhere (in the README file, in the Themes Database when you upload the final theme...) that for better behaviour it's highly recommended to enable the configuration->smartpix feature in Moodle (available under Admin->Miscellaneous->Experimental) when using your theme.
Joseph < ...Unfortunately the smartpix feature seems to be rather unreliable, as we recently found out on our university moodle serversad. I would not recommend its use.
Eh, and can you give us some hints about how/why it wasn't working as expected? Windows / Linux server? Not working? ... (some weeks ago we were discussing about if that feature should go from experimental to official and any feedback will be welcome).
Ciao
Eh, and can you give us some hints about how/why it wasn't working as expected? Windows / Linux server? Not working? ... (some weeks ago we were discussing about if that feature should go from experimental to official and any feedback will be welcome).
Ciao
Hi Eloy,
Well the problem is happening on our university server. The admin says that when they turn smartpix on, all icons disappear. I'll ask him to post our moodle server specs here if that might help.
Ciao,
Joseph
Well the problem is happening on our university server. The admin says that when they turn smartpix on, all icons disappear. I'll ask him to post our moodle server specs here if that might help.
Ciao,
Joseph
Eloy,
I remember 3 cases from these forums where smartpix did not work and it may be related to php(4?) running in cgi (and old Apache) but I have never been able to test it because I have no such servers. http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=76006 for example
In reply to Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)
Re: Problem with smartpix and our customized theme
by Arnaud Saint-Georges -
Bonjour,
We use Moodle 1.8.4 and a Linux server.
When, as Admin, I tick Smart pix search (smartpix setting), icons such as Show/Hide block, Assign roles, etc. do no longer appear when my customized local theme ("UHBpied") is selected.
With an other Moodle standard theme, that works fine.
Note that the URL of Show/Hide block icon is:
http://moodle.uhb.fr/pix/smartpix.php/UHBpied/spacer.gif
which of course cannot exist.
We use Moodle 1.8.4 and a Linux server.
When, as Admin, I tick Smart pix search (smartpix setting), icons such as Show/Hide block, Assign roles, etc. do no longer appear when my customized local theme ("UHBpied") is selected.
With an other Moodle standard theme, that works fine.
Note that the URL of Show/Hide block icon is:
http://moodle.uhb.fr/pix/smartpix.php/UHBpied/spacer.gif
which of course cannot exist.
In reply to Arnaud Saint-Georges
Re: Problem with smartpix and our customized theme
by Julian Ridden -
I have php5 running here and also have an issues with all icons disappearing when the function was enabled.
The reason might be an old CGI related php bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31892 and
In reply to Joseph Rézeau
Re: Smartpix feature (was re: GHOP Issue 102: RedMoon Theme)
by Shane Elliott -
We also had a problem with this and tracked it down to the theme names having upper case letters ie the smartpix pattern searching ignores upper case letters. AFAIK directory names in moodle should be lower case anyway so not sure it counts as a bug.
Hope that helps someone.
Cheers,
Shane.
Hope that helps someone.
Cheers,
Shane.
In reply to Shane Elliott
Re: Smartpix feature (was re: GHOP Issue 102: RedMoon Theme)
by Joseph Rézeau -
Hi Shane,
That would explain why we got the problem with our university theme, named UHBpied (see our admin's post on Monday, 28 January 2008, 05:11 PM).
Thanks for the tip,
Joseph
That would explain why we got the problem with our university theme, named UHBpied (see our admin's post on Monday, 28 January 2008, 05:11 PM).
Thanks for the tip,
Joseph