Eric,
Still not seeing it: http://erikreagan.com/projects/docs/er-developer-toolbar/
JIm

p.s. found it on your GIT site.

Jim

Thanks for following up. I failed to check it for non-logged users. It’s showing up on my docs now. Thanks!

Thanks, all there for me now.

On another note, the link to the project on your homepage is broke.

Ciao,

Jim

Jim Wyse - 14 November 2009 10:26 PM

On another note, the link to the project on your homepage is broke.

Actually it’s not, it’s just poor usability design on my part. The image is what clicks over to the page, not the text. I’m working on a better solution for that Thanks though

I updated the extension this week to include a fly-out menu for the modules that you have installed which also have a control panel backend of their own. You can find the download on my website and upgrading is a simple as replacing the files.

Thanks!

I am having a small problem due to my customization of the control panel path as outlined here:

http://eeinsider.com/tips/view/installing-ee-1.x-above-webroot/

http://expressionengine.com/docs/installation/masked_cp_access.html

I see you are using the CP_URL variable. Is there a solution to this?

I suppose I could do a custom mod-rewrite to handle this, but built in is always better.

Erik,

Great work, this looks like it might be indispensable. I have a usability suggestion:

To my taste it would be easier if the system status and debug status showed their current status directly in the toolbar rather than being combined in a drop down menu. Similarly template debugging and sql queries could show their current status in the toolbar thus saving mouse clicks.

Thanks for you comments eduqate!

eduqate - 15 December 2009 03:24 PM

To my taste it would be easier if the system status and debug status showed their current status directly in the toolbar rather than being combined in a drop down menu.

I thought about doing something similar with a few “features” actually. I ran into an issue, however, when the toolbar was positioned on either the left or right side because text wouldn’t fit in the small width. I chose to keep the consistent UI with the fly-out boxes on all toolbars.

On a similar note, I want the toolbar to fit on most browser widths and with text strung out it would require a larger width quite quickly.

eduqate - 15 December 2009 03:24 PM

Similarly template debugging and sql queries could show their current status in the toolbar thus saving mouse clicks.

By mouse clicks are you referring to more “motions”? The only click required is if you want to change the setting which would be required either way.

Erik Reagan - 15 December 2009 03:29 PM

I thought about doing something similar with a few “features” actually. I ran into an issue, however, when the toolbar was positioned on either the left or right side because text wouldn’t fit in the small width. I chose to keep the consistent UI with the fly-out boxes on all toolbars.

If the status displays were icons with a popup caption for legend and a fly-out for setting, it would work in any orientation surely? Or have I missed something?

Hi Erik,
Great update. I did have problems with v1.1 but the 1.1.1 update solved them. I just wanted to mention that the font size shows up HUGE for me.

Adding:

to the stylesheet on line 89 took care of that.

eduqate - 15 December 2009 04:51 PM

If the status displays were icons with a popup caption for legend and a fly-out for setting, it would work in any orientation surely? Or have I missed something?

I thought you were suggesting to put the text value of the status directly in the toolbar rather than in any pop-up/fly-out. What is your suggestion? (sorry for the confusion)

smartpill - 15 December 2009 04:54 PM

I just wanted to mention that the font size shows up HUGE for me.

Adding:

font-size: 1em; 

to the stylesheet on line 89 took care of that.

Hmm, good to know. I haven’t had it show up huge in any of my sites but I’ll certainly take your suggestion into consideration and set a default font size. Did you use any versions prior to 1.1.0? Did they not have a font size problem in the same EE install?

Erik Reagan - 15 December 2009 06:44 PM

smartpill - 15 December 2009 04:54 PM

I just wanted to mention that the font size shows up HUGE for me.

Adding:

font-size: 1em; 

to the stylesheet on line 89 took care of that.

Hmm, good to know. I haven’t had it show up huge in any of my sites but I’ll certainly take your suggestion into consideration and set a default font size. Did you use any versions prior to 1.1.0? Did they not have a font size problem in the same EE install?

I’ve tried 1.0 and 1.1 and they were all huge for me. Looks like in my case it inherits the reset stylesheet’s 100% font size otherwise, where I have the body font set to 62.5%. The 1em setting changes the inheritance.

smartpill - 15 December 2009 07:00 PM

I’ve tried 1.0 and 1.1 and they were all huge for me. Looks like in my case it inherits the reset stylesheet’s 100% font size otherwise, where I have the body font set to 62.5%. The 1em setting changes the inheritance.

Yeah I was specifying the font size on the parent div rather than the actual paragraph and anchor tags. I’ve tweaked this for the next update. Thanks

Erik Reagan - 15 December 2009 06:44 PM

I thought you were suggesting to put the text value of the status directly in the toolbar rather than in any pop-up/fly-out. What is your suggestion? (sorry for the confusion)

My suggestion was - is now - to show those 4 status indicators as individual icons on the toolbar, the icon reflecting the on/off, 1/2/3 state of the indicator.

Hovering over the icon would display a legend indicating what the icon represented (and/or it’s current state?). Clicking the icon would display a fly-out allowing the state to be changed (my preference would be clicking the icon toggled it’s value, but one is 3-valued - boo!)

eduqate - 15 December 2009 07:57 PM

...to show those 4 status indicators as individual icons on the toolbar, the icon reflecting the on/off, 1/2/3 state of the indicator.

Okay I’m with you now. So your suggestion is to place them on the toolbar itself and not a level deep to “save mouse clicks”? If I’m not mistaken this still requires the same amount of movement on your mouse…

Erik Reagan - 16 December 2009 01:14 AM

eduqate - 15 December 2009 07:57 PM

...to show those 4 status indicators as individual icons on the toolbar, the icon reflecting the on/off, 1/2/3 state of the indicator.

Okay I’m with you now. So your suggestion is to place them on the toolbar itself and not a level deep to “save mouse clicks”? If I’m not mistaken this still requires the same amount of movement on your mouse…

It saves ‘mousing’ of all sorts as the statuses are visible directly, So it is viewing an icon directly rather than mousing over to a label and sliding down, to change status requires the same movement/clicks.

Hi Erik great extension

using the links from the frontend menu gets me to mysite/system/index.php/index.php?C=example instead of mysite/mysystemfoldername/index.php?C=example. Where can I change the “system” folder name?

Thanks

Interfacer - 08 January 2010 01:33 AM

Where can I change the “system” folder name?

Try going to Admin > System Preferences > General Configuration and looking for “URL to your Control Panel index page”. There’s also a chance it was set in your path.php file so you might want to check there if the General Config setting doesn’t do the trick.