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Suggestion: Tooltip showing first lines of post

Postby Nem » Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:31 pm

Brilliant site

As a Warseer migrater I miss the feature where you highlight a thread topic and it shows you the first few lines in a tool tip.
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Postby Spack » Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:38 pm

I'd have to look into how feasible it is to add that. Using a simple popup with text (like the glossary popup) will be messy, I guess I'll have to look at a solution based around Ajax. Let me mull on it.

UPDATE: Good news! There's a mod for phpBB already to do it, I'm just reading the installation instructions now :)
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Postby Nem » Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:43 pm

It's not a major thing, just an idea :)

Love the website btw. You've done a great job with making the features we need close to hand. Like the Army list link at the top. Great stuff.
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Postby Spack » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:05 pm

OK, how's that? It doesn't work on the recent topics at the top yet, but I'll add it if it works OK on the normal forum topic list.

UPDATE: It's working on the recent topics at the top now too. I'll look at adjusting the colours to fit more with the rest of the board.
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Postby NorseWarrior » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:23 pm

YOU ARE THE MAN!!!
But how about NOT including pictures on those little previews....if the first or last post includes pictures, those cute little previews become pretty huge...
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Postby Nem » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:25 pm

That is fantastic!! Even better than anything I suggested lol.


Very helpful at work when opening a thread is a career threatening move :wink:
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Postby Spack » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:51 pm

I'm going to get it to strip out images too (which also means smilies) as otherwise it goes a bit nuts when there are large images in the start of a post.
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Postby NorseWarrior » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:59 pm

Much better...Thank you!
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Postby KInG » Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:07 pm

nice addition, great work Dan.
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Postby Nem » Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:28 pm

Can you get it to open the tool-tip where the subject header is?

Only when you shrink IE to a 1/4 of your screen (say if you happen to be at work) then the pop up appears off the screen.
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Postby LordMalekTheRedKnight » Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:29 pm

i was missing this feature too (and just about to suggest it as well! :P).

my only complaint is that it brings the preview up a little too quickly - just moving your cursor across the screen makes a real mess of flashing text. could you add a delay, so you have to hover the cursor over the thread title for 1 second or something before it brings up a prieview (i think this is what its like on Warseer).

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Postby Nem » Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:36 pm

Hi Tim

Without sounding like some kind of stalker, you are the reason I looked up AoS and joined. I've read many of your rules posts and was missing this on Warseer. I don't know what happened there but I am glad it led to me finding this website!
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Postby LordMalekTheRedKnight » Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:51 pm

Nem wrote:Hi Tim

Without sounding like some kind of stalker, you are the reason I looked up AoS and joined. I've read many of your rules posts and was missing this on Warseer. I don't know what happened there but I am glad it led to me finding this website!

stalker? nah. just a fanclub member. ;)

hehe. :lol:

thanks for the kind words - cheers mate :)

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Postby Ranhothep » Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:51 pm

The preview is brilliant Spacker!! 10/10

As I assume this thread will still receive a lot of views, Ill post my question here. Although I enjoy being a chosen allready, it ocurred to me, that the ranks are switching rather quickly. Besides, I do remember some comments on them from another post, maybe you could reconsider the values?
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Postby Spack » Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:32 pm

Ranhothep wrote:As I assume this thread will still receive a lot of views, Ill post my question here. Although I enjoy being a chosen allready, it ocurred to me, that the ranks are switching rather quickly. Besides, I do remember some comments on them from another post, maybe you could reconsider the values?


I'm open to suggestions :)

Tim, I'll look at the delay when I get home, should be fixable.

Nem, it should be opening where you put your mouse, so should be right on top of the title. I'll check when I get home.
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