Product images in new window

Hi.

Not certain what I did but I just realized when I click a product image it loads in a new window rather than the same page with the nice effects.

Any idea what I might have done?

That is the standard "noscript" behavior that you get when javascript is disabled in your browser...

hm. Well, java is enabled and I tried in FF too -I use Chrome. Perhaps something's wrong with the js scripts? This lead me to my java console where I found:

UnCaught TypeError Cannot call method 'Click' of null : jscript_xdarbox.js:3

and

UnCaught TypeError Cannot call method 'getProperty' of null : jscript_ajax_image_swapper.js:99

So something appears to be referenced in the index to those lines. This is making a bit more sense now. I tried to move to ajax image swapper but things turned a bit ugly (I could look at the AIS configuration but got a 500 error in the IAS catalog tool. So I "uninstalled" the add-on by reviewing what files I had uploaded and deleting the matching ones on the server.

So...I either deleted files I shouldn't have or didn't delete some I should have...My understanding of this add-on is that it only overwrote 1 file, the tpl_product_display.php. I replaced that one with a backup copy. As mentioned above the rest of the files/folders where additions so I deleted them. But obviously they're still being referenced somewhere. I'm assuming some index file is thought to grab php file automatically and since I forgot to delete it somewhere is getting loaded. Since the rest of IAS is deleted js is in turn broken...Make sense!?

So if the above is right, what would be the bulletproof method to really uninstall IAS? Or should I forge ahead and get IAS working?

All is well again! I when back and compared the original structure to the one on the server and carefully removed AIS-only files/folders and the js feature is back in black(sorry for the pun but I'm happy again!)

Thanks gjh42 for pointing me in the right direction.

The AIS install instructions had me apply a patch to SQL. Should I restore my db now that I'm not using AIS?

That would probably be a good idea. Even if the db changes just put some extra switches in admin, there's no point in having unused baggage.
Does AIS have an uninstall SQL? Ideally you would just reverse the install SQL so as not to affect any other changes to your db.

No it didn't come with an uninstall patch. I'll have to either look through the changes(I don't think there are many) and unapply them or restore using the backup I did just before applying the patch. I suppose a third option would be to create a patch the reverses the changes.

I like keeping things clean so one way or another I'd like to remove it