DHTML Thread Preview with Per-User Option
 

What Is This?

This hack will alter the way your users view the thread previews. Instead of using vB default "title", which can be annoying, we're using a DHTML tooltip to display it. You can even customize the look of the tooltips. And remember that Mozilla bug where linebreaks show up as black squares? No more! You can actually preserve the line breaks now! And now we've moved the tooltip to a thread's post icon for easy activation, so no more annoying accidental preview popups. On top of all that, your users can just disable the whole thing if they don't like it!


Hack Overview

• vB Version: 3.0.1
• overLIB Version: 4.00
• New files: overLIB library
• New Profile Fields: 1
• Files to modify: 1
• Templates to modify: 2

What You Need

All you need is the overLIB. You can download it from this page. To get more functionality and customization, you can read the online manual.


Downloads / Thing to look at
- The package that contains the instructions.
- A screenshot (uploading images doesn't want to work for me...)
- Live example (hover over the post icons)

nice hack :)

i like the idea.
and excellent placing of THE words.

people are really CREATIVE

Sandy...

I like this - will have to look into overLIB. Nice work. :)

Thanks guys :)

Used to use overLIB on my site a long time ago. I enjoyed it, and it worked well for me. Looks like you have done the same with this hack. Good job! :)

The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING' in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/smarty/forum/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(3037) : eval()'d code on line 3

This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement. It is highly recommended that you fix this error before continuing, but you may continue as-is if you wish.

What did I doing wrong :disappointed:

Which template you editing when you get that error? :p

if there isn't post icon ?

If you've turned them off then your SOL :p If the user didn't select one, then it automatically inserts a default one.

I couldn't think of anywhere else to put it. Maybe the post indicators are a better place.

The one mentioned in the instructions "threadbit" :ermm: