Zen Lightbox addon [Support Thread]

[gems14k]

The pop-up overlay doesn't cover the whole screen in IE. It works fine in firefox.

See this page for testing:

http://www.nokoria.com/genuine/index...roducts_id=385

Any idea why?

Thank you,

[s_mack]

That is odd... works fine in ie7. And lightbox works fine on my site on ie6 and ie7 - so I'm not sure why yours doesn't work with ie6.

[Alex Clarke]

Hi everyone.

Sorry for not posting in this thread much. I've been really busy.

However, I'm currently working on the next release of Zen Lightbox and will address as many of these bugs as possible.

Thanks for all the feedback so far. :)

[billedmunds]

I have successfully installed another lightbox module in WordPress butI have tried lightbox in the Simple Zen template with three installs and even mapping out the directory structure on paper.

Tried it out in FF2 and IE7 and cannot get it to work ....

Any suggestions before I abandon ship?

[s_mack]

Hey Alex,
I was just monkeying around trying to adapt this lightbox contrib to something else on my site and got screwed up on the templates... I notice you hardcode templates in so I am making this suggestion:

In all files where you have something like:

<script type="text/javascript" src="includes/templates/template_default/jscript/lightbox_prototype.js"></script>

change it to:

<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $template->get_template_dir('.js',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'jscript');?>/lightbox_prototype.js"></script>

and then move everything from the "template_default" folder of your package to the "YOUR-TEMPLATE-FOLDER" folder.

This will bring your GREAT contrib more in-line with the override and templating standards of the zen platform.

- Steven

[s_mack]

Oh, and then change the three appropriate lines of your css file from

background:transparent url(../../template_default/images/lightbox/blank.gif) no-repeat;

and

background-image:url(../../template_default/images/lightbox/prevlabel.gif);

and

background-image:url(../../template_default/images/lightbox/nextlabel.gif);

to

background:transparent url(../images/lightbox/blank.gif) no-repeat;

and

background-image:url(../images/lightbox/prevlabel.gif);

and

background-image:url(../images/lightbox/nextlabel.gif);

- Steven

[s_mack]

Of course, now I see how you have a problem with hardcoding in the lightbox.js file

Where it says:

//
//	Configuration
//
var fileLoadingImage = "includes/templates/template_default/images/lightbox/loading.gif";	
var fileBottomNavCloseImage = "includes/templates/template_default/images/lightbox/closelabel.gif";

There's no easy way of doing that without hardcoding. I suppose the best way to work this if you want to conform as much as possible to the templating scheme of zen without creating a lot of work... is to do this:

//
//	Configuration
//
var fileLoadingImage = "images/lightbox/loading.gif";	
var fileBottomNavCloseImage = "images/lightbox/closelabel.gif";

and move the two image files to the main image directory.

All just suggestions!

- Steven

[Alex Clarke]

s_mack... That's exactly what I'm doing for the next release.

When I first put Zen Lightbox together I was quite lazy and didn't really make use of the overrides system very well.

However, all this will soon change with the next release.

Thanks for the info. :)

[Woodymon]

I posted on this previously but have yet to resolve. Does anyone have ideas why Zen Lightbox would work fine in Firefox 2 on one PC but not another (but works in IE on both PCs).

In FF2 I see a whitebox on black screen, but nothing else. I assume an issue with the JavaScript. I see that Zen Lightbox loads four different scripts:

1) Prototype JavaScript framework v.1.4.0 (lightbox_prototype.js);
2) Scriptaculous v.1.5.1 (lightbox_scriptaculous.js?load=effects);
3) Lightbox Effects (lightbox_effects.js);
4) Lightbox v2.02 (lightbox.js);

Firebug shows the following errors in stylesheet_lightbox.css (and Web Developer JavaScript console flags the same as warnings):

Error in parsing value for property '-moz-opacity'. Declaration dropped. (line 112)
Unknown property 'filter'. Declaration dropped. (line 114)
Error in parsing value for property 'opacity'. Declaration dropped. (line 117)
Error in parsing value for property 'display'. Declaration dropped. (line 133)

-Woody

[Hemma]

also i am just wondering would the next update support slow internet connections? By that i mean, would the plugin be fully loaded faster than before? this has been the thing that stops me from using lightbox, as if it is not fully loaded, the image will only be shown simply as an image, rather than the effect its trying to achieve.