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

[pixelwrangler]

IH2 problem fixed: Installed to WRONG folder!

Corrupted entire ZC. Reloaded clean /includes folder, all is well. Now just have to figure out how to get IH to do what I need it to do!

[stevensmedia]

This thread is losing effectiveness... it's just too big. How many times have the same support questions been asked because we can't locate the fixes in this monster thread? If we can't have a sub-forum dedicated to IH, wouldn't it be good for the mod contributor to just set up a free Google Group?

I posted a support request for this same issue back in Sept 08. The answer is somewhere in here but I can't locate it, and after upgrading ZC and IH, the problem has returned.

In IE, the large size popup window is not sized to the image, it's only about 100 px high.

Can someone please point me to the fix?

TIA!

[deshojo]

I'm using Image Handler with v1.3.8a and am having trouble getting clear images for the small size images.

Most of my images contain a lot of detail as they are cross stitch kits, and these tend to display very blocky or fuzzy in the small size which is not good!

The medium & large images appear perfectly OK.

Can anyone suggest a solution please?

website is: www.b u s y l i z z i e c r a f t s.co.uk

With thanks in advance.

[ckosloff]

I definitely agree with stevensmedia that something should be done to address the unwieldiness of this thread.
Organize it into something like FAQ, fixes, etc.
For example, and this is a question for yellow1912, I see that an updated version of this mod is available for download.
However, I had already updated the file (it was published on the thread), so I don't think that an update is necessary for me.
I also use tophand's version of imagehover, but don't know if this is included in new release.
Contributor has left the forums long ago, so somebody should volunteer for a Google Group.
Hint: I'm already ducking the suggestions thrown at me.

[pixelwrangler]

Still unable to figure out why the hover effect is not working. I installed IH2 on another server just to see if a totally clean install would work. Just loaded the standard test products and categories.
IH2 works fine in all respects - all hover/zoom effects work.

On my development site, however, despite the fact that the templates are the same, the hover does not work. The smaller image has that little box with the x that indicates IH2 is working, and the watermark appears correctly on the larger image I get when I click on the product listing image.

But no hover/zoom, anywhere. The Configuration/Image panels are identical, so that's not the problem.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

[ckosloff]

Still unable to figure out why the hover effect is not working.
Thanks.

Do you have javascripts in your CUSTOM/jscript folder?

[pixelwrangler]

Yes - the JS folder and its files are there. T A check of the source code on the different pages also shows the JS references, and they are correct.

I am still investigating, but at this point, I do not have much hope that this problem can be overcome, judging from the other posts on this topic.

[ckosloff]

Yes - the JS folder and its files are there.

All the javascript files in the custom_template/jscript folder need to be enclosed in tags like these:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"><!--
your javascript here
//--></script>
then change the extension to .php, if prompted about the file name extension say Yes.
The reason is that, according to Dr. Byte, Zen cart will "peek" first into that folder and if it finds any javascript there, it will execute those and then stop looking.
Thus, jscript_imagehover.js in template_default will not be read.

[pixelwrangler]

The folder /templates/mytemplate/jscript contains:

onload (folder) - contains only read_me.txt
jscript_imagehover.js
read_me.txt

So, you're saying to take the code from the jscript_imagehover.js
file, put the standard <script> code around it, and write as
jscript_imagehover.php ?

I'm curious as to why some people have gotten the zoom feature to work without having had to report to this, as apparently it's not really documented anywhere I can see.

I also went back and looked at the IH2 documentation. It says to copy the jscript files into the folder of whatever custom template you might be using. Does it then matter if you leave the jscript files in the template_custom folder where they were put during the install? My brief experiment shows no difference in lack of zoom behavior, either way, at least for me.

[ckosloff]

So, you're saying to take the code from the jscript_imagehover.js
file, put the standard <script> code around it, and write as
jscript_imagehover.php ?

No, IH2 installs jscript_imagehover.js in template_default.
IF you have javascripts in your CUSTOM/jscript folder, then those should be surrounded in tags and renamed.
Why do you have readme.txt there? Shouldn't be there, but I'm not sure that is causing your problem.
Try removing all those readmes and see what happens.