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DHTML Thread Preview with Per-User Option · **Released**: 04-30-2004

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)

Scrub · #12 05-01-2004, 04:17 PM

Try this:

HTML Code:

<if condition="$show['threadicons']">
		<td class="alt2">
            <if condition="$show['threadicon'] && $thread[preview] && !empty($thread[preview]) && $bbuserinfo[field5] != 'No'">
                <img src="$thread[threadiconpath]" alt="" border="0" onmouseover="return doPreview('$thread[preview]');" onmouseout="return nd();" />
            <else />
                <if condition="!$show['threadicon'] && $thread[preview] && !empty($thread[preview]) && $bbuserinfo[field5] != 'No'">
                    <img src="images/icons/icon1.gif" alt="" onmouseover="return doPreview('$thread[preview]');" onmouseout="return nd();" />
                <else />
                    <if condition="$show['threadicon']">
                        <img src="$thread[threadiconpath]" alt="alt="$thread[threadicontitle]"" border="0" />
                    <else />
                        <img src="images/icons/icon1.gif" alt="Post" />
                    </if>
                </if>
            </if>
        </if>

Chroder, I belive you forgot an </if> in the threadbit edit.

Chroder · #13 05-01-2004, 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scrub

Try this:

HTML Code:

<if condition="$show['threadicons']">
		<td class="alt2">
            <if condition="$show['threadicon'] && $thread[preview] && !empty($thread[preview]) && $bbuserinfo[field5] != 'No'">
                <img src="$thread[threadiconpath]" alt="" border="0" onmouseover="return doPreview('$thread[preview]');" onmouseout="return nd();" />
            <else />
                <if condition="!$show['threadicon'] && $thread[preview] && !empty($thread[preview]) && $bbuserinfo[field5] != 'No'">
                    <img src="images/icons/icon1.gif" alt="" onmouseover="return doPreview('$thread[preview]');" onmouseout="return nd();" />
                <else />
                    <if condition="$show['threadicon']">
                        <img src="$thread[threadiconpath]" alt="alt="$thread[threadicontitle]"" border="0" />
                    <else />
                        <img src="images/icons/icon1.gif" alt="Post" />
                    </if>
                </if>
            </if>
        </if>

Chroder, I belive you forgot an </if> in the threadbit edit.

Uh oh

I'll take a look

Chroder · #14 05-01-2004, 05:06 PM

See first post for updated package. Missed a </td> and </if>. Should work now

SmartGnome · #15 05-01-2004, 05:07 PM

@Scrub

Many TNX ....... works fine now :banana:

Scrub · #16 05-01-2004, 05:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chroder

See first post for updated package. Missed a </td> and </if>. Should work now

I should've caught that missing </td>. LMAO! Guess I was more interested in the error.

Chroder · #17 05-01-2004, 10:37 PM

Any idea's on different locations for the hovering? The post icons aren't too practical. I was thinking of a 5x5px image next to each title that had the hoving on it -- too much?

Boofo · #18 05-02-2004, 03:58 AM

Why not just do the thread title link?

Chroder · #19 05-02-2004, 06:13 AM

Because it's clumsy and annoying

Boofo · #20 05-02-2004, 06:18 AM

Well, you asked for a different location. Sorry it wasn't the answer you wanted.

msimplay · #21 05-02-2004, 12:56 PM

just realised that the dhtml tooltips missing for when u search posts
could we add it to that ?

ps how do i remove the preview altip from thread title on forum display

also i wasn't sure wether to ask here or in the vbadvanced forum
but i'd also like to intergrate this with last posts block for Vbadvanced somehow

excellent hack idea by the way
the thread previews get annoying when they don't have html stripped in the thread preview alt tip

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