[SOLVED] Drop-down Link Lists (suggestion)
 

I had an idea in bobo's July Feature Request thread that I think would be more useful given some explanation and example images to see it in action.

What I propose is a new list tag that makes drop down lists like when you click any of the shortcuts at the top of the forums (View Posts, Search, Quick Links) or your username above your avatar.

It's just another way of organization. I'll give you an example.

Here we have some links pertaining to a fansub group.

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8...opdownbrc4.png

It's fairly well organized but with drop-down link lists it could be more compact.

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/902...lickedbfz3.png

Ah very good. Now let's click on one of the drop-down links.

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7...nclickbta7.png

See?


So let me propose some example code for that particular drop-down link list that would achieve this:

Perhaps not all of you know this feature but in Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera you can middle click with the wheel on your mouse on drop-down lists already used on GFF and it'll open the first link in the list in a new tab or window. I'd hope that this would be the same for these drop-down lists too. Perhaps it's just a browser thing but it'd be nice.


So what do you guys think? =o

I love the idea. As you said, it'd be great for tidying up multiple links and generally keeping things neat. I don't see why anyone wouldn't want it.

Sounds awesome. ='D

Since the drop-down lists are already part of vB, I'm guessing it shouldn't be too hard to implement.

this is good idea. But is there any way to null the referrer? all links put in this forum is being referred by gamingforce.com domain force. Some links that have direct files are not working in download manager for uncertain reason. =/

[popuplink=1234]Popup 1[/popuplink] & [popuplink=5678]Popup 2[/popuplink]
Testing these menus out
1234 5678

I like. :) Fun stuff happens when you put other lists as list items, though.


Probably just best to disable [popuplink]s from rendering in other [popuplink]s, if that's possible.

Also, it's possible to redefine menus other people have made. Check your Popup 1 menu.

1234

[popuplink=smilies]smilies[/popuplink]

smilies
Wow that looks really cool.

I know this isn't testing forum, but I'm just going to test out the quotability of this new feature.

EDIT: Just something to note. The dropdowns occasionally don't work. =(
Clicking on Acer's right now, and CHz's recursive and nothing is happening.

Hmmmm it seems to have different effects in Firefox and Mozilla. I can't get CHz's nesting to work in firefox while it does work in IE7 but produces a few extra down arrows.

http://content.imagesocket.com/images/ie7ddllol8b4.PNG


My post doesn't work at all in IE7 but perhaps that is because I copied CHz's smiley code and it might get confused over another instance or whatever. Dunno.

Also quoted pop-up link lists or whatever we're going to call them won't work when quoted in IE7. They work fine in Firefox though.

The recursion menu in my post doesn't seem to work until I use the one in packrat's quote of my quote, after which both work fine. The opposite is true with the nesting menu: doesn't work in packrat's quote until I use my original one.

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Yeah, it weirds out in Opera like IE7 does as well. I dunno what's going on.

Both of you, try refreshing your pages, and testing each of them again. I have found that I've gotten different results each time I've tested them.

Also, CHz's recursion causes the pop-down to float about with no observable anchor:
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1.../recursion.jpg

I managed to follow this all the way to below the lowest borders of the page and past the right border of the tables.

Yeah, I refreshed a couple of times and got the ones that work and don't work to swap. That would explain why I had to check my post a few times to make sure I had the right words down; I wasn't just imagining that they were flip-flopping. :(

Also, that's what happens with my recursion menu too, packrat. HOW FAR CAN YOU GO ='D

Yeah, I'm not sure calls to lists is very good since someone can make the same list name and force other lists that call the same name to change.

Perhaps code that worked more like what I put in the example would work better.

Well, I can't keep on making the code more and more complicated just to babysit people. At least list recursion isn't screwing up the forums, and that's what matters.

Unique list IDs are required for them to work. Actually I could get the code to behave like Acer's idea, and force a unique ID (for quoted posts, too) by setting it to a random function. I'll do that now.


Edit: [popuplink] removed. Everything is done through [popup] now.


Test Popup
Double Post:
Quoting myself

lookin' good

what

in before you

marquee doesn't work. -__-

Awesome work, Blah! This is much better. Thanks! =D

Testing example from the first post:


Fansub torrents:
Doremi-Fansubs

Website

#Doremi @ irc.rizon.net

& Fighting Magic

Website

#FightingMagic @ irc.rizon.net

Episode 01
Episode 02

TV-Nihon

Website

#TV-Nihon @ irc.zirc.org

Episode 01
Episode 02
Episode 03 - NEW!



A note, you can bold, italicize, and resize the popup link text if you put bbcode just outside of the popup tags. It won't affect the text inside. Very nifty. =)

I just happen to think they look better bolded so I'm happy you can do it. =)


Testing nested popups:

Menu

items hammer mushroom frogsuit

worlds desert ice land dark world

:cheese:

http://content.imagesocket.com/images/mefalltsig0bf.gif

Well it makes nests but you can click on the nested popups in firefox. Not that you'd ever really want to do that but it's a good test. I'm going to see how this post looks in other browsers.

Double Post:
That's a negative. Nested popups don't work in Mozilla 1.5, IE7, and Opera 9. I am happy to report that popups work mostly the same and correctly in all three browsers though. =)

Also, Opera 9 is the only one that can do marquee, Rock. Marquee shrinks the popup box for IE7. Opera is strange that it always refreshes whatever its hovered over so you can make the guy repeatedly smash the other dude with the lol sign in Blah's popup. ='D

So yeah basically I don't recommend using popup and marquee tags inside popup tags because they won't work. =P

What a nice addition. Thanks, Blah. =)

Testing

:cheese:

Rate Me!

Oh, so those are the arguments necessary to make auto-rating links. =O

I had to modify chocorate.php to use $_REQUEST instead of $_POST for two variables >_>

Oh shit! I thought the chocorate code was gone forever! Awesome news. I swear bobo said you wouldn't be able to make links to do it again.

Gonna go and put this in my sig. =)