Author Archives: Michael Sharman
- August 15, 2009
- New location for FarCry subversion repositories
The folks at Daemon have completed some migrations with their subversion repositories which directly effects FarCry. Notes from the farcry-dev groups:
All URL’s should be replaced with this repo location:
https://modius.svn.cvsdude.com/farcry
All project folders are relative to this root. For example, the p520
branch for FarCry 5.2.x is available here:
https://modius.svn.cvsdude.com/farcry/core/branches/p520/
You can re-checkout or use the “relocate” command if [...]
- July 14, 2009
- Hiding the FarCry tray on the front end
Came across this nice tip a little while ago from AJ Mercer on the farcry-dev group.
It hides the FarCry “tray” which is visible on the front end of your website to users who are logged in to FarCry. I happen to have a use case for this at the moment so it was good timing.
Simply [...]
- June 15, 2009
- Prototype/scriptaculous issue with Sortable.create()
I’ve been doing some custom sorting within FarCry using the prototype/scriptaculous libraries as they already exist in the FarCry framework by default.
I was having trouble getting the Sortable.create() to work properly and the main docs site for scriptaculous seems severely lacking in examples. Basically the “sorting” action was happening fine but no event was being [...]
- June 9, 2009
- Setting application variables in FarCry
I just thought I’d write up some quick thoughts on setting application scoped variables in FarCry as it occured to me that it could be a little confusing to non-FarCry developers.
It doesn’t really matter which framework you use, you can theoretically set you application variables anywhere you want, but ideally you want to follow [...]
- May 29, 2009
- Setting the sort order for custom admin items in FarCry
I’ve wanted to be able to control the sort order of menu and menuitems in the customadmin.xml (or equivalent) file for quite a while but hadn’t found how to do it. Only today did I find the ability, I believe it’s a FarCry 5+ feature which was why I didn’t see it before.
The answer is [...]