Hi Luke, As you might already know, you can insert Flash, Quicktime, etc. into a Thickbox today just by using other good plugins such as jMedia. You would just point Thickbox to a page that used jMedia (or similar) plugin to show the media. A PDF file is probably even easier since you just point an <iframe> src directly to the PDF file and let the browser do the work.
The challenge (as I recall) is that Thickbox's inbuilt Next/Previous functionality is currently only employed when it is pointed directly at image files. So, you can obviously put whatever you want inside a Thickbox, but the Next/Previous links currently only display for image files. But there is hope! A while back, I hacked an old version of the Thickbox script to show a more complex (formatted) caption in the Thickbox for each photo. The below site has no Thickbox animation, and there is no jMedia code inside any Thickbox panel, but there is a simple AJAX call added to my modified Thickbox plugin that slurps a formatted photo caption into a scrolling <div> below each photo when it loads. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/twww/ At the above link, jMedia is used on the "Introduction" pane of the Accordion to present a Flash video. But you have to go to the other Accordion panels and click on the photo thumbnails to launch the Thickbox(es). As an additional example, this site also allows the end user to get a clean printout of each image and its caption directly from the Thickbox in a (hopefully) intuitive way. It does this by creating a "Print Image" button above each photo. A hidden <iframe> is created when the user clicks the "Print Image" button. This hidden <iframe> is directed to load a page containing only the image and its caption, and a call to print() prompts the user to print as normal. This approach was (much) easier (for me) than trying to manipulate the existing elements on the page with CSS to create a sane printout via "File > Print". (Using "File > Print" with a Thickbox showing is not usually intuitive for the average user because the browser will (correctly) print the entire page...everything behind the Thickbox too!). Anyway, that printing functionality is just another example of putting "something extra" inside a Thickbox that points to image files and therefore retains its automatic "Next/Previous" linkage (no animations though). I'm really looking forward to Thickbox Reloaded as well! Thanks a lot for the SVN links! Cheers! -THEO- P.S. I hope your back feels better soon Klaus. All hail Lord Ibuprofen! :) On Aug 1, 1:02 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oooooooh, must try this! > > As feature requests go, how about supporting other "file formats" such > as PDF/WMV/MOV? I'd surely love to be able to get a PDF to open in a > thickbox. These could even be optional modules that can be added if > the user wants (since not all people will want this). > > I love the animation ideas and keeping it like Tabs is a great idea > IMO. > > Now to figure out how to use SVN... > > Luke > > On Aug 1, 5:26 pm, Klaus Hartl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Rey Bango wrote: > > > > Hey man! Send me the link to the TR code and I'll drop it into a site > > > I'm building right now! :D > > > > If it can do the animation via your examples, I would ssssooo happy. :D > > > > Rey... > > > The latest code is in SVN... > > > --Klaus
