New Extension: ER Developer Toolbar

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:

font-size: 1em;

to the stylesheet on line 89 took care of that.

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)

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 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.

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 😊

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!)

…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…

…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

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.

thanks, didn’t look at the cp url before, your suggestions did the trick.

Great! Glad it’s up and running 😊

Erik

I’m unable to get the toolbar to show. The proper calls like you state are in <head> and right before </body>. Any advice on where to go from here? It is enabled.

Thanks.

Chris and I chatted about the issue and he can now see the toolbar. We narrowed it down to his authentication on the front end not being correct. He wasn’t recognized as logged in due to cookie/domain conflicts. If anyone runs into that check something simple like turning on Template Debugging and if you can’t see it on the front end then you aren’t a logged super admin.