[TYPO3] Changing appearance of tt_news file list icons

[Christopher Torgalson]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM, StephenBungert <stephenbungert at yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> Hi. I'm trying to change the icon used by icons in tt_news's file list.
>
> Someone suggested I look at the Typoscript for tt_news and this (along with
> the tsref) led me to write this:
>
> newsFiles {
>    #As default
>    path = uploads/media/
>    icon = 1
>    stdWrap.wrap = <dd>|</dd>
>
>    # try and change all icons at first to a custom one...
>    iconCObject.5 = IMAGE
>    iconCObject.5 = {
>        file.5 = IMG_RESOURCE
>        file.5 = {
>          file = fileadmin/templates/images/icons/pdf.png
>        }
>    }
>  }
>
> newsFiles in the tt_news manual is of type filelink, and looking at that in
> the tsref I believe I must set the iconCObject property to type IMAGE, an
> then the file property I must make a IMG_RESOURCE. The file property of the
> IMG_RESOURCE is then (i assuem from what I can understand of the tsref) the
> path to the file.
>
> I've done something wrong though, as the icons use the same default ones as
> before. Can someone help me with the typoscript to achieve what I want? Or
> tell me what I have done wrong. Eventually when I can get it to use the pdf
> icon for every file type I want to try and get it to pick the icon based on
> the files type (like it now does automatically.


Your TS makes no sense :)

The IMG_RESOURCE ***cObject*** and the imgResource ***function*** or
***data type*** are not the same thing. See the TSref for more
details, but this should work:

iconCObject.5 = IMAGE
iconCObject.5 = {
   file = fileadmin/templates/images/icons/pdf.png
}

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Christopher Torgalson
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