folder.gif

[mycolumbus]

Hello,

I changed folder.gif to folder.jpg and edited the colors slightly. Can someone tell me which file calls the folder.gif file so that I can then go and change it to folder.jpg.

I tried searching for "folder.gif", but could only bring it up in cat_add_form.html.

Thank you.

[dody]

It's in /themes/kosmos/setting.php

$cat_default_image      = $site_url.'/themes/'.$active_theme.'/images/folder.gif';

[mycolumbus]

Still didn't work I'm afraid. The new image /themes/mytheme/images/folder.jpg is uploaded and the corresponding /themes/mytheme/setting.php file has also been updated and uploaded.

[dody]

If you uploaded folder.jpg, then your setting.php should be

$cat_default_image      = $site_url.'/themes/'.$active_theme.'/images/folder.jpg';

Make sure to upload folder.jpg to
/themes/mytheme/images/

[mycolumbus]

It's very very strange. The setting.php file has indeed changed and I have confirmed this via the admin control panel. I even changed the image from folder.jpg to foldddder.jpg just to see if it would ruin things.

Cleared my cache, refreshed the page, but still the theme is picking up folder.gif. Is folder.gif called from elsewhere?

[mbarnett]

Why not change your jpg to a gif and upload it?

[mycolumbus]

jpg loses many colors when converted to a gif, hence the reason I want a jpg.

Anyway, have finally found the solution. You need to go into the admin control panel and edit each category's image file. Simple! So I'm assuming the settings.php file is using the $cat_default_image as a default, and this is overridden by whatever is held in the database.

[mbarnett]

Depends on how you do it. I can't imagine that you would need more than 256 colors for a folder image.

[mycolumbus]

I don't. But some of the colours I want are not part of the standard colours hence they are mixed with thousands of other colours. Does that make sense. I'm no guru in images though. All I know the colours I want don't save as a gif file.

[mbarnett]

You can have any color you want in a gif. You do not have to have the Standard 256 web colors.

Generally gifs are smaller in file size unless you compress the JPG but then you lose quality.

I would love to see your JPG.

[mycolumbus]

Hmm... I opened the standard folder.gif in Paint and they change the background colour from white to orangy but the image would never save in that colour. Hence, I changed it to a jpg file.

You can see the folder icons at www.aacircle.com.au/directory. You will notice the orangy background. Yes, it's the same folder image, but just with a non-white background.

[mbarnett]

Just make the background transparent

Here is the file with a transparent background.

[mycolumbus]

thank you for your nice suggestion!