easymod questions

[atesterman]

This may seem like a dumb question... when it ways installed themes, how do i update themes after i apply a mod?"

[Nightrider]

Whenever subSilver is specified in the MOD's OPEN command, EM will attempt to modify ALL templates that are installed on your board. The same applies for languages. Whenever lang_english is specified, EM will attempt to modify ALL installed languages...

So if there were no Warning errors during the MOD install, then ALL alternate template files were updated along with the subSilver files...

[atesterman]

what i meant is if i added a new theme how can i make the mod apply to it?

[Nightrider]

Creating Template Only MODs

If you have added new templates after installing a MOD, all you need to do is create Template Only versions of the MODs that you have installed.

1. First create a duplicate of the MOD script in a new text file. To make it easier to remember, just use the same MOD filename that the MOD author used, but add _template_only to the name. So if you are using the TopicCalender.txt file, the new Template only version would be named TopicCalender_template_only.txt.
2. Then save the new Template Only MOD and store it in it's own separate templates only folder...
3. If there are any files included with the MOD that are supposed to be uploaded to template folders, store them in the new Template only MOD folder maintaining the same folder structure that the original MOD used...
4. Next add the name of the new Template to the end of the MOD Title using your favorite Text editor. So the MOD Title could look something like this if Aeolus is your new template name:
   

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   ## MOD Title:  Topic calendar - Part 1 (common to all setup) Aoelus

   EM will recognize this as a new MOD if the MOD Title is different from what it has previously installed...
5. Next strip out all NON-Template related modifications. All you want in this new Template Only version of the MOD are alterations for template files only. If there are any copy commands, only keep those that copy included files into template folders too..
6. Then rename all instances of subSilver with your new Template name using the Replace All function that you can find in most text editors.
7. Now you can upload the new Template Only MOD folder to the admin/mods and run it like you would any other MOD using EM.

If you have added more than one new template, you would want to repeat Steps 6 & 7 for each Template except instead of using subSilver, you would use the name of the last template that you installed using this Template Only version of the MOD. So if the last template you modified with this was Aeolus and you want to apply the changes to Helius next, do a Replace All on Aoelus to Helius...

It really isn't that difficult to update each new template after the fact...