Feature Request? Previous/Next Thread separate gadgets

[GooRoo]

Forum URL: gooroosgruntz.proboards.com
Especially right here in the Support Board, it would save (sometimes considerable!) time to have Previous Thread and Next Thread as their own (always visible) gadgets.  It helps that "Actions" is always visible even when scrolling down the page, but it still requires mousing to "Actions", scrolling down to "Go to", then selecting either "Previous thread" (much more rarely used (by me)) or "Next thread".  I am going through 8 Boards, each with dozens of threads, correcting broken links and Version 5 table breaks due to the pseudo HTML format changes.  The new table processor is not as lenient about mis-placed start/end tags, and causes the unsightly tables.

Example of what I need to find and fix.

[David Clark]

Hi GooRoo,

For your forum, I don't expect it would be especially difficult for a coder to make a plugin that binds the Prev/Next Thread to keyboard hotkeys or places it somewhere on the page, but I don't see us implementing something like that on Support since it's always two clicks away no matter where you are in a thread.

[GooRoo]

May 15, 2014 10:54:11 GMT -8 David Clark said:

Hi GooRoo,

For your forum, I don't expect it would be especially difficult for a coder to make a plugin that binds the Prev/Next Thread to keyboard hotkeys or places it somewhere on the page, but I don't see us implementing something like that on Support since it's always two clicks away no matter where you are in a thread.

So this post should then be moved to "Plug-in requests.  Please do that for me.

[David Clark]

You got it!

[David Clark]

Hey GooRoo, I found this plugin from Chris that is able to pull some of the options out of the menu you mentioned, but I'm not quite sure that Prev/Next Thread is among those options since I didn't see them in the screenshot. You could always check it out though

[GooRoo]

May 15, 2014 15:17:14 GMT -8 David Clark said:

Hey GooRoo, I found this plugin from Chris that is able to pull some of the options out of the menu you mentioned, but I'm not quite sure that Prev/Next Thread is among those options since I didn't see them in the screenshot. You could always check it out though

I read through the posts, and it appears to only work BELOW the Actions drop-down.  So I posted a question to learn more about it.

Thanks!

[David Clark]

Ah you're right - I mixed up dropdowns, as this plugin is for the in-post cog dropdown. My mistake!

[David Clark]

I should be able to help you come up with something that accomplishes this, GooRoo. Can you be a bit more specific about how you'd like it to look?

[GooRoo]

May 16, 2014 8:19:47 GMT -8 David Clark said:

I should be able to help you come up with something that accomplishes this, GooRoo. Can you be a bit more specific about how you'd like it to look?

Move "Previous Thread" and "Next Thread" out of the "Actions" drop-down menu and encase them in similar shaped rounded-corner rectangles immediately to the left of "Actions", so that a single click on "Next Thread" (for example) does exactly what selecting either item from the drop-down menu does now.

[Previous Thread] [Next Thread] [Actions]

[David Clark]

I should have something for you a little later

[Pebble]

Sorry David Clark, I didn't see that you where going to do this.
Anyway.... GooRoo,  maybe there'll be a choice!

You can add this to your global footer, or I can make it into a plugin if you prefer :


<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
   if (proboards.data('route').name == "thread"){
       var prev = proboards.data('lm_thread_prev');
       var next = proboards.data('lm_thread_next');      
       $('<a class="button" style="float:left;" href="' + prev + '"> Prev thread </a><a class="button" style="float:left;" href="' + next + '"> Next thread </a>').insertBefore('.ui-selectMenu-box');  
   }
});
</script>


[David Clark]

[GooRoo]

May 17, 2014 9:00:21 GMT -8 Pebble said:

Sorry David Clark, I didn't see that you where going to do this.
Anyway.... GooRoo,  maybe there'll be a choice!

You can add this to your global footer, or I can make it into a plugin if you prefer :


<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
   if (proboards.data('route').name == "thread"){
       var prev = proboards.data('lm_thread_prev');
       var next = proboards.data('lm_thread_next');      
       $('<a class="button" style="float:left;" href="' + prev + '"> Prev thread </a><a class="button" style="float:left;" href="' + next + '"> Next thread </a>').insertBefore('.ui-selectMenu-box');  
   }
});
</script>
It seems that all of these modifications go "at the bottom of" whatever element is involved, so I will start there.  I will report back as soon as I have a result worth reporting.

Thank You!

[GooRoo]

Well, it turns out that I had nothing in the Global Footers (or Headers!), so could not go wrong with the addition.

It works great!  I recommend it for everyone!

[David Clark]

And that's why Pebble's super rad.