As usual, i had a buncha forum members with nothing better to do than to bitch about a 'lost feature' that i had hacked in for 65x when we upgraded to 71x.

Sooooo, i added this as a response to their griping. It was a fun one to do.

Essentially, this has a variable delay tooltip, that will show when the user hovers over a topic's subject.

The tooltip is fully styled and fully HTML, with all tags being closed by the truncator. No nl2br stuff or text only!

Just read the readme.txt (duh) and have at it. I have it working on my play forum: Here . The hover activates after a 1 second (configurable) delay.

I think i currently have it showing the last post in the thread, where first==last for a totally new topic

Notes:

1. "title="header=[Preview] body=[{$postrow[topic].PostBody}] fade=[on] delay=[1000] fadespeed=[1] cssheader=[tthdr] cssbody=[ttbdy]"

you can change these ie:
. "Preview" could come from a lang file, if you want and you could call it whatever
. fade=[on] can be off, if you don't want the tooltip to fade at all
. delay is in ms, so 1000 is one second. feel free to change. i find a short one kinda sux
. tthdr, ttbdy can be any class you desire. i just used them as 'tt' - tooltip

2. i've included a compressed version of boxover.js, since its static anyway. you can choose to copy boxover-cs.js to boxover.js if you want. i also have boxover-nm.js in case you killed the original boxover.js.

3. The css i included above was for a blueish theme (light), so feel free to change it for your particular needs. Also, the widths may not be to your liking. Have at it! You can include 'opacity' stuff and have some neat effects, if you'd like. i tried it, then reverted to none.

4. The popup is a fully HTML one and all tags that aren't finished are handled (finished off) by truncate.inc.php, so no worries, if you choose to have a different size for the preview.

5. I've gone even further with this puppy to add it to Active Topics preview and such. There are lots of places where this can be used, however I decided to stop for now, because what i really intend (and am in the process of doing) is to marry the .js with AJAX functionality so as to not have to burden the title="" with large amounts of data. This will make for a more polished product in the end. I'll probably coincide the new release of this puppy with 7.2, so i don't have to re-hack.

6. You can choose what the hover tooltip will display (first post or last post), by changing the SQL above from .TOPIC_LAST_POST_ID to t1.POST_ID

Screenie below:


That's it!

Enjoy!

Well done

Will await 7.2 version

Ian,

I agree that's probably a good idea. Since it will be ajax based and the load on the php side of things (as well as page size) will drop.

Matter of fact, for all my mods, i don't see why someone would be putting them into a 7.1x right now. Best to wait for 7.2 or later.

Good to note however, most of them aren't different with respect to whether they are intstalled on a 7.1 or 7.2

Hey sirdude, this is exactly what I've been wanting. Good for you, and thanks!

I'll wait until I upgrade to 7.2 as well.

I've decided to separate the 7.1 mods from the 7.2 mods into separate threads. the 7.1 mods will just float down in the list and fade into oblivion, while (if the 7.2 mods are good enough) the new ones will supplant them.

Keeping 2 flavors of mods in the same thread is a pain and the coding (although very similar) is easier to maintain on a per thread/version basis.

So just look for the new [7.2] threads, if you are into 7.2 only mods.

:2c:

Good way to do it, I do it by prefixing the thread with versions it supports; very rare though do I have one which says [7.x]

This will work for 7.2, right?

I think I answered my own question .. which is no. The first piece of code to find and replace is not exactly the same, so I thought I'd better not go ahead. I'll break something for sure.

i'll make a new thread for the 7.2 one. should be after starbucks and 2 triple grande lattes though

Thanks SD .. will look out for it.