jQuery Scrolling Sideboxes [Support Thread]

[allmart]

will do

[allmart]

lat9,

You have been so helpful and was hoping you could provide a solution to this minor problem. Is it possible to have a fixed box height for the scrolling box. If the product name is wider than the column/box width, the text wraps which shifts everything below the box down because of the extra line and back up if the name is less than the box width.

[lat9]

allmart, I've used a couple of the "equal heights" jQuery scripts for other purposes. Let me investigate and I'll get back with you, since your request is one that I've had on my list for this plugin for a while now.

[dbltoe]

Was not able to get this to work with 1.5.5e without adding files to the newer overides directories.

Copy the plugin's files to your store's file system.
/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/scrolling_sideboxes.php
/includes/modules/sideboxes/best_sellers_scrolling.php
/includes/modules/sideboxes/featured_scrolling.php
/includes/modules/sideboxes/specials_scrolling.php
/includes/modules/sideboxes/whats_new_scrolling.php
/includes/templates/template_default/jscript/jscript_jquery_cdn.js
/includes/templates/template_default/jscript/jscript_sidebox_slider.js
/includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_best_sellers_scrolling.php
/includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_featured_scrolling.php
/includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_specials_scrolling.php
/includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_whats_new_scrolling.php

works just fine as

Copy the plugin's files to your store's file system.
/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/YOUR_TEMPLATE/scrolling_sideboxes.php
/includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/best_sellers_scrolling.php
/includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/featured_scrolling.php
/includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/specials_scrolling.php
/includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/whats_new_scrolling.php
/includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/jscript/jscript_jquery_cdn.js
/includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/jscript/jscript_sidebox_slider.js
/includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_best_sellers_scrolling.php
/includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_featured_scrolling.php
/includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_specials_scrolling.php
/includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_whats_new_scrolling.php

Note: with the responsive_classic, the boxes are properly centered in the mobile phone testing I've done.

[lat9]

@dbltoe, that's weird; I've been using those sideboxes on my site since 1.5.5a with a clone of the responsive_classic template.

In what way did it "not work" out-of-the-box?

[dbltoe]

Until i moved the files to the YOUR_TEMPLATE override folders, it was as if nothing had been loaded. Got all listings with no scroll.

Went back thru twice to verify files loaded, correct boxes turned on, etc.

Pulled out the old zc_overrides and said "hmmm, let me throw them all in the overrides." Worked first shot.

[DrByte]

As to overrides, if your YOUR_TEMPLATE folder has a "jscript" folder, then all lookups to template_default for "jscript" files will be completely ignored, and only your YOUR_TEMPLATE/jscript folder will be used.
So, it's quite possible that if this plugin relies on such files then yes you'd need to put those into YOUR_TEMPLATE instead of template_default.

But strictly speaking, for all the "sidebox" files (module and template), you don't strictly have to use an override folder, if you want the feature to apply regardless of which template you're using.