floating windows theme

By claus2080 on 9 Aug 2006 at 16:06 UTC

Hello people I am currently writing a theme in which the different sections of the site are floating windows. The main content, sidebars, etc are in separate divs and each one constitutes a window which can be moved resized etc using javascript. Currently I'm trying out dhtmlgoodies (http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/index.html?whichScript=floating_window_with_...) windows, but I'm planning on writing my own windows manager.

I'll post some pictures if you are interested, and the whole theme also if you want it.

Comments

Interesting...

rszrama commented 9 August 2006 at 18:57

Pretty neat idea.. I'm interested to see how a site with that theme would 'feel' while browsing. The demos were pretty cool, though.

along similar lines..

Dublin Drupaller commented 9 August 2006 at 19:03

nice idea..

not the same, but along similar lines we used thickbox (which is like lightbox but with node type content instead of an image) to preview album tracks - on top of a Drupal artist site.

The Immediate - Album previews

As I say, it's not the same, but along similar lines. I like the focus the thickbox offers.

Dub

Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate

hey

Phillip Mc commented 10 August 2006 at 10:28

Hi Dub,

Love the album previews page. How did you do that? is that the audio module with lightbox?

Also, I really like the layout of the checkout page for the shop. Is that a cart.tpl.php override?

Phil

using css only..

Dublin Drupaller commented 10 August 2006 at 19:30

I'm just using css to do that Phil. (cart.css)

drop me an email if you want a copy.

Dub

Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate

the link

claus2080 commented 12 August 2006 at 05:18

hello people here is the link to a test site implementing the floating windows theme: http://www.perihelio.com.ar/
currently it is the pushbutton theme, windowed. check it out and tell me if it works for you. I only tried it on IE6, FF1.5.x and Flock.

that's just neat

sepeck commented 12 August 2006 at 05:29

works mostly in ie7b3. By mostly I mean there is an inital overlap of the left block with the header

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floating windows

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commented 12 August 2006 at 05:36

Awesome work! Great to see this. It works pretty good in FF1.5.0.6 - the only thing that bugs me is the boxes remain even when empty.

Oh, and some of the boxes shoot around while navigating.

hah Very Interesting

rszrama commented 15 August 2006 at 03:27

I second the bit about windows just showing blank when empty... one never really got content, and when I went to /user the menu box of course went white but stayed open. Perhaps they could minimize across the top of the page when they're blank?

Come to think of it.. is it possible to minimize any of the windows or open up more than one content window? Like maybe I'd want a forum window open alongside a handbook window... or is this beyond the scope of a mere theme?

Re: hah Very Interesting

claus2080 commented 15 August 2006 at 11:06

hey! I don't know if showing different contents (like forum, handbook, etc.) at the same time in diferent windows is possible without much coding. I mean sure it's possible, but currently the phptemplate engine sends you only one $content to print out, so the theme itself should extend phptemplate and decide what to show and what not.

The windows staying open while there's no content I'll try to fix them. About minimizing - there is no minimize in dhtmlgoodies, so i think i'm gonna switch to jpwm (http://jpwm.sourceforge.net/demo/) which allows for more stuff to be done with the windows.

Cool to see that you are interested in such a theme, i thought only me was interested!!