ideasgirl:
It did have real value. See instead of having an annoying popup hover while you browse the shop, the visitor will have control of which images s/he wants to see bigger before going to the product info page. I thought (and I still think) that this was a very nice setting to have more control about the hovering bigger picture.
Image hover was not removed.. It's still very much a part of IH2 and it works just fine..
What was removed was image hotzones.. Hotzones was removed because frankly it wasn't working correctly or even consistently, ckosloff and Mano took a crack at trying to get it to work properly. However, ultimately it was felt that this feature was not worth the effort to fix.. (They put a fair amount of time into this effort) shrug Anyone is welcome to take a second look at this and provide some insight as to why it didn't work correctly..
From Tim's original documentation. The sections in red is the feature that was removed.
Zooming (fancy hover effect)
When selecting this feature for small images, the medium image pops up whenever you move your mouse cursor over the small image. Those images are branded with an overlay just like a watermark to indicate the pop up ability. You can upload a file to images/zoom.png to have it overlay your image. A small [\[IMG\]http://breakmyzencart.com/\_media/zoom.png?w=&h=&cache=cache\[/IMG\]](http://breakmyzencart.com/_detail/zoom.png?id=ih-doc&cache=cache) image is included for quick start. If you don’t want the overlay to show but still want the effect, just delete the overlay image
You can select the gravity just like you can with the watermark to configure where the overlay should go. In addition to that you can specify if you want the overlay to act as a hotzone. That means the popup only shows if you move your mouse exactly above the overlay image (hotzone). If it does not, the whole image is the hotzone.> ideasgirl:
It was implemented and it was working. That's why I'm not getting the new images uploaded by FTP maybe to the right size? In my "old" site with the "old" IH2 those LRG and MED and .thumb images are created. Don't ask me how because I don't know much about coding, but I know that it works and create those additional images and they are "constrained" somehow to the size set on admin.
Medium image hover really was not implemented.. If you look at Tim's documentation he confirms this, and I saw no evidence in the time since Tim stopped actively participating in IH2 development that it was EVER added to the core code. The setting for it did nothing either which is why it was also removed to eliminate question and confusion regarding a non existing feature.
From Tim's original documentation:
Note: Zooming in on medium images is not implemented, yet. That said, there is a post somewhere in the dark recesses of this support thread which outlines how to implement medium image hover.. However this modification DOES NOT WORK with most lightbox contributions.. We do include a link to this post in the IH2 readme for anyone who wants to add this functionality with all the caveats that it is not recommended or supported because of the lightbox conflicts.. Again.. If someone wants to take a crack at getting this feature to WORK and work with lightbox contributions, that would be awesome.. shrug
ideasgirl:
I also discovered today that if you upload the additional images by FTP besides not being optimized to the large size set, it won't show the watermark if you are using that feature. On the old IH2 you needed to upload a different size image on each folder of root, medium, and large to proper display of it if you want those images to show up the watermark.
Watermarks was not disabled or modified at all and they work perfectly fine as long as you have the watermarks in the correct locations, in the correct format, and named the correct file name
Again from Tim's original documentation:
In order for watermarking to work for every image dimension the specific corresponding watermark images have to be present. That means, you have to upload files to the following specific locations:
- images/medium/watermark_MED.png (or your specified MEDIUM_IMAGE_SUFFIX)
- images/large/watermark_LRG.png (or your specified LARGE_IMAGE_SUFFIX)
I included some demo watermark images for small, medium and large sized images featuring a slightly modified Zen-Cart logo for a quick start. Nothing more to do, switch on, switch off, just as you like. Image Handler takes care of generating images accordingly. You can specify where you want the watermark to appear on the image canvas by selecting NorthWest, North, NorthEast, West, Center, East, SoutWest, South and SouthEast for the *Wartermark Gravity* setting.> **ideasgirl:**
So those 2 options were perfectly working, practical and usable (at least for the dozen of IH2 installations I made, and some sites still using it, including mine), and now they are not there anymore. :(
Upgrading from an older version of IH2 to the latest versions was a simple matter uninstalling from the admin, FTP over the new files (merging changes to core files as needed -- mostly for lightbox integration), and install from the admin.. All I can say for all those MANY SITES having issues is they should ask for help here..The folks who've vigilantly been helping with troubleshooting images have done a good job of walking folks through issues that may arise from a errant installation.. There are PLENTY of examples of folks who are using this add-on quite successfully..
