Zen Lightbox addon [Support Thread]

[DarkAngel]

From a usability POV, it is not always obviously apparent to lay users HOW to navigate to additional images without an omnipresent "hint".. For my own personal usage I always hover to see if there are additional navigation options in a lightbox, but not all lay users think to do this.. Is making this an admin controlled option a possibility.. this way you could split the difference.. Tjose who want the buttons always visible can have it, and those who only want it on hover can have it that way..

Just my three cents..

good point. I usually look for a close button anyway but having the click image to close is nice for those that do use it but not necessary.

it works great in every other respect and I for one would just leave as is...anyway I just found out by accident that if you click the center or center bottom of the image it does nothing ----but

click either the right side or the left side of the image will also take you to next or prev images...it all works in the end.

[niestudio]

From a usability POV, it is not always obviously apparent to lay users HOW to navigate to additional images without an omnipresent "hint".. For my own personal usage I always hover to see if there are additional navigation options in a lightbox, but not all lay users think to do this.. Is making this an admin controlled option a possibility.. this way you could split the difference.. Tjose who want the buttons always visible can have it, and those who only want it on hover can have it that way..

Just my three cents..

Good Idea!!
I have a testing version I'm working on with a new admin parameter "Always show Prev / Next" (sound like a good title?) with a default of false.
I was able to add a check for that parameter AND the image close parameter in the autoload_default file to load updated css instructions and now the Prev/Next buttons show "always" IF either "Always show Prev / Next" is true OR if "Close on Image Click" is set to true.

Does that sound like it will solve the main issues?

Daniel

[DivaVocals]

Good Idea!!
I have a testing version I'm working on with a new admin parameter "Always show Prev / Next" (sound like a good title?) with a default of false.
I was able to add a check for that parameter AND the image close parameter in the autoload_default file to load updated css instructions and now the Prev/Next buttons show "always" IF either "Always show Prev / Next" is true OR if "Close on Image Click" is set to true.

Does that sound like it will solve the main issues?

Daniel

Sounds like drinks all around!!!

[andalucian]

Hi Daniel
i found my problem. It seems that tpl_modules_main_product_image.php had not been over written. I noticed the difference in file size, changed it and now everything is working great.

Have a nice weekend

[niestudio]

Hi Daniel
i found my problem. It seems that tpl_modules_main_product_image.php had not been over written. I noticed the difference in file size, changed it and now everything is working great.

Have a nice weekend

Thanks for the update!

[finlander]

.. Daniel, trying to get my head around all these controls you've added .. do I understand correctly that the LB can now be set to behave the old way OR it can now be set to behave the new way?

That is, the new way of hover Prev/Next and click on 50% of image, is still an option, and all the old fixed-position Prev/Next with old Close-on-Image-click and advance image only by clicking on actual Prev/Next, is now also an option?

In other words, total new way and total old way are now both options?

[niestudio]

.. Daniel, trying to get my head around all these controls you've added .. do I understand correctly that the LB can now be set to behave the old way OR it can now be set to behave the new way?

That is, the new way of hover Prev/Next and click on 50% of image, is still an option, and all the old fixed-position Prev/Next with old Close-on-Image-click and advance image only by clicking on actual Prev/Next, is now also an option?

In other words, total new way and total old way are now both options?

Hey finlander,
It sounds like you have it basically figured out.
The only thing that throws me is the reference of "old" and "new"
The "standard" (what I would consider old) behaviour is the hover functionality as it goes all the way back to the original lightbox that slimbox and others are based on.
The 'new' controls I'm working on will allow an 'always show previous and next buttons' option so the hover will get disabled. It will also go back to respecting the close on click image parameter.

daniel

[finlander]

daniel, my mistake, yes, I was referring to the 'always showing' Prev/Next when I said 'old' way. I didn't know that hover to show Prev/Next ever existed before 1.6 -- the only way I've seen LB before 1.6 was the Prev/Next always showing. I figured the improvement of 1.6 was to make it hover-show, so that the Prev/Next images would not obscure the product picture.

Thanks again for all your work on this one! It's installed and working great, and when your changes are final, I'll drop them in for the added configurability.

[balticccreations]

HELP!!! I installed this mod and now my site is coming up completely white!!! I tried removing the sql patch with the uninstall file and no help. I tried doing a restore and get errors! I don't know what this did but please help me get it out!!! I need my site back! I'm using the current version of zen cart and my site is http://balticcreations.net

[niestudio]

HELP!!! I installed this mod and now my site is coming up completely white!!! I tried removing the sql patch with the uninstall file and no help. I tried doing a restore and get errors! I don't know what this did but please help me get it out!!! I need my site back! I'm using the current version of zen cart and my site is http://balticcreations.net

Did you try turning off zen lightbox?
Admin: configuration > zen Lightbox