Image Handler 2 (for ZC v1.3.8 ONLY) Support

[blackhalo]

IH2 is great...love it!

I'm curious though, is there a way to "preload" the hover images?

I have the slightest delay when I hover...
but I can imagine this getting longer depending on the customers modem speed.

It's common practice to pre-load rollovers...but I have no idea how-to with ImageHandler.
Has anyone integrated a pre-load function to the mod?

[testuser]

IH2 is great...love it!

I'm curious though, is there a way to "preload" the hover images?

I have the slightest delay when I hover...
but I can imagine this getting longer depending on the customers modem speed.

It's common practice to pre-load rollovers...but I have no idea how-to with ImageHandler.
Has anyone integrated a pre-load function to the mod?

They're cached on the server, and once you've loaded the page. Pre-loading, depending on how many images you have, would defeat the purpose and functionality. Better to say it's not feasible.

[blackhalo]

They're cached on the server, and once you've loaded the page. Pre-loading, depending on how many images you have, would defeat the purpose and functionality. Better to say it's not feasible.

No disrespect, but I don't really understand your reasoning.

Are you saying images are cached (in the browser) when someone loads the page?
Then that would be pre-loading...

What I don't understand is "defeat the purpose and functionality"...
isn't part of the purpose to have the hover effect load quickly?

If someone has to wait for it to load...THAT defeats the purpose.

Since it's very unlikely every image will be hovered immediately when the user hits the page,
having those hover images loading in the background would cache them locally,
making the effect faster...increasing functionality.

Or is "not feasible"...as in, it CAN'T be done?

[testuser]

No disrespect, but I don't really understand your reasoning.

Are you saying images are cached (in the browser) when someone loads the page?
Then that would be pre-loading...

What I don't understand is "defeat the purpose and functionality"...
isn't part of the purpose to have the hover effect load quickly?

If someone has to wait for it to load...THAT defeats the purpose.

Since it's very unlikely every image will be hovered immediately when the user hits the page,
having those hover images loading in the background would cache them locally,
making the effect faster...increasing functionality.

Or is "not feasible"...as in, it CAN'T be done?

As in it's pointless...the images are loaded as if they were placed in a regular image tag. There's not point in pre-loading them. The hover effect just, let's say brings them in to view. In otherwords they're already loaded when the page load completes, not just when you hover over them.

Pre-loading all the images wouldn't be feasible, or ideal.

[blackhalo]

As in it's pointless...the images are loaded as if they were placed in a regular image tag. There's not point in pre-loading them. The hover effect just, let's say brings them in to view. In otherwords they're already loaded when the page load completes, not just when you hover over them.

Pre-loading all the images wouldn't be feasible, or ideal.

Thanks, that's what I was trying to figure out...
whether they're preloaded with Javascript or downloaded with :hidden html/css makes no difference,
as long as they're loaded before you hover them.

As I stated, I see a (ever-so) slight delay when hovering...
I assumed this was the image downloading from the server,
and this effect would get worse for people with slower connections.

As it is, sounds pretty good man...thanks for the reply!

[testuser]

Thanks, that's what I was trying to figure out...
whether they're preloaded with Javascript or downloaded with :hidden html/css makes no difference,
as long as they're loaded before you hover them.

As I stated, I see a (ever-so) slight delay when hovering...
I assumed this was the image downloading from the server,
and this effect would get worse for people with slower connections.

As it is, sounds pretty good man...thanks for the reply!

If you have the Opera browser, you can see how many image are loading in your browser to the right of the address bar.

If your using FireFox and have the Web Developer tools installed, you can view the Document Size and this will tell you how big your page loads are. Excluding any Flash of course.

[lizar5-]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to resize my hover image, i rather have my customers hover over the image and see a large detailed picture than have to click to view the product description then click again for the larger picture.

[blackhalo]

If you have the Opera browser, you can see how many image are loading in your browser to the right of the address bar.

If your using FireFox and have the Web Developer tools installed, you can view the Document Size and this will tell you how big your page loads are. Excluding any Flash of course.

Thank you testuser...
I've been looking for something like Web Developer tools for Firefox...AMAZING!!

I have one IH2 problem though, it's pretty serious...
where can I find the logic that generates the <img> with the "ALT" and "TITLE" tags?

Why?

I sell t-shirts...every product has the word "t-shirt" in the name.
So if I've got 100 t-shirt designs on my home page, that immediately turns into 500 instances of the word t-shirt on one page!!

Between the href's for both the product image and the text below it,
the visible text within the link, then the auto-generated ALT and TITLE tags...

No sir, I don't like it...(Ren & Stimpy anyone?)

So how can I remove/stop the "TITLE" tag from generating with the images?
I'm semi-familiar with the guts of ZenCart, I just need to know where to find the logic that's generating this tag...which file?

Thank you!!

[lemuria]

Hi, we're still having the problem below...anyone have any ideas on how to solve this?

My client would like to have some very long images in her additional image popups. I found where to add scrollbars to the popup windows so that you can scroll down to see the bottom of a large image. However, in Firefox the window itself is so tall that the bottom is cut off.

Here's an example: the second additional image is the long one.
http://orileydesign.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=953

I played with includes/modules/pages/popup_image_additional/jscript_main.php but I wasn't able to make the window less tall in Firefox.

Thanks!

[cinbou]

I installed Image Handler and everything seemed to work fine. I was able to load the Image Handler 2 from the Admin Tools menu and it installed fine.

However, when I go to my store, the page is blank!!

Any ideas what is wrong? I found this information in the Image Handler support thread: If you have modified any of the files located in this contribution’s includes/templates/template_custom folder, you need to merge these files (popup_image_additional/tpl_main_page.php in particular) with those of your custom template. Do I need to do this? How do I do it?

Help!! Here is the link to the store: http://twistjewelrydesign.com/shoppingcart/

Thanks,
Cindy