How would you trigger an event when a ThickBox closes?

Question

This question is Semi-related to Wordpress, but has applications elsewhere. Basically, I'm trying to make it so when someone exits out of a Thickbox, it triggers an event elsewhere on the page. Editting the Thickbox file isn't an option.

Answer 1

It's a bit complicated since Thickbox isn't written that way. But maybe you can use some tricks to do it.

It's not the recommended solution but you can "rewrite" the close function. Something like:

var old_tb_remove = window.tb_remove;

var tb_remove = function() {
    old_tb_remove(); // calls the tb_remove() of the Thickbox plugin
    alert('ohai');
};

Works \o/ http://jsfiddle.net/8q2JK/1/