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I've done it in a different way over Here (testing grounds) using Boxover

It essentially required:

• Grab free .js from site and put in ubb_js
• Include the .js in forum insert (either body or footer)
• Style up .tthdr (header) and .ttbdy (body) -- or choose your own
• Edit postlist.inc.php (a: add one more left join for post_body, uber-parse the markup as it's truncated) and postlist.tpl (add 6 {else} for test if new posts, then insert pop-ups)
• Repeat {Test; PhpPukes; i++} until i==20ish;
• Poof.. done!

I can grab the mods together and zip them up with proper described procedure and post at a later date (will take coupla days to get free time)

Note 1: The pop-up delay is set in Milliseconds to 750 (.75sec) and i don't fade the tooltip in. But these are all configurable.

Note 2: All markup is preserved, with closing tags auto-inserted, when truncated by the Character preview limit.

Note 3: The reason i did this mod, was because using the css/div mechanism (as in active topics) is unweildy and a pain in the ass because of fixed-relative positioning. i wanted the delay to show to be possible (hence .js) and the tooltip to move with the mouse. I replaced the standard 7.1.1 active topic rollovers with this.

Note 4: This is for 7.1.1, btw

Note 5: I'm using the Css3 opacity for the tooltip. Works in IE6,7 and FF 2.x (no clue about safari or opera ... and don't care )

All in all, it was a fun mod to do.


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