Zen Lightbox addon [Support Thread]

[mc12345678]

Good morning All - I have been with Zencart for a bit and am gradually finding my pit falls of ignorance... I would love to add this feature to my site but I am wondering if it is worth it because I fear that I have not prepped all my pics correctly.. I have one pic to an item and have had a staff helping and I think that she has not been naming them as I had asked so there is no consistency.

www.stitchnframeonline.com

Well, the naming does not have a direct affect on whether this plugin will work or not, it can affect which picture(s) appear with which product(s). Ie, picture for product number one is named A, and picture for product number two is marked AB, well, product two's picture will show up for both products, but picture for product one will only show for product one. This is the case regardless if Zen Lightbox is installed. Zen Lightbox allows the image to be shown as the "center" of attention when clicked on. If there happen to be more than one picture available for that product, then there are configurable options to address that.

[DarkAngel]

Yes this is a great mod and I would not use any other...LOL If you do decide to use this mod then I would greatly suggest you use larger images so when it is clicked on ---- image pops up in pretty dark "cloaked" window --- customer can see details better. As you have them now, when even clicked now the image is pretty much the same size as the one clicked....hard to see details of image.

Larger sizes will be resized for page view by software of cart so that is great. See my signature for link to my store and view for yourself.

[DivaVocals]

Yes this is a great mod and I would not use any other...LOL If you do decide to use this mod then I would greatly suggest you use larger images so when it is clicked on ---- image pops up in pretty dark "cloaked" window --- customer can see details better. As you have them now, when even clicked now the image is pretty much the same size as the one clicked....hard to see details of image.

Larger sizes will be resized for page view by software of cart so that is great. See my signature for link to my store and view for yourself.

I have converted all my client sites from Zen Lightbox to Zen Colorbox. One of the BIGGEST driving factors for this is because Zen Colobox is responsive and Zen Lightbox is not and cannot be easily made responsive.. The reason other is that the underlying libraries which drive Zen Lightbox are at EOL..

[dw08gm]

Pray tell what EOL means.

[pewe]

EOL = End of Life ??

[DivaVocals]

EOL = End of Life ??

Exactly..

[pewe]

Exactly..

Your previous post about this inspired me to change to Colorbox too

[DarkAngel]

I had not realized that and love this mod...I have had it since I started with zencart. I will need to look into icolorbox I see niestudio helps there too. I had tried it once several years ago and did not like it so definitely will lookie.Thanks Diva

[DivaVocals]

Your previous post about this inspired me to change to Colorbox too

Good show!!!

I had not realized that and love this mod...I have had it since I started with zencart. I will need to look into icolorbox I see niestudio helps there too. I had tried it once several years ago and did not like it so definitely will lookie.Thanks Diva

What you tried several years ago is LIGHTYEARS from the current version of Colorbox..

[DarkAngel]

OK I bit the bullet and have installed colorbox but I see this in the controls to set:

If Enable Resize Animations is set to true, the lightbox will resize its width from this value to the current image width, when first displayed.

Where do I find the critter to resize animations?, it is not in the colorbox control settings.

Also, if I do not want the slideshow effect how do I enable the next and previous buttons or are they not available with this lightbox?

Should I have started this in a thread of its own since there is not thread for colorbox support?