Zen Lightbox addon [Support Thread]

Sorry, watt’s appending ,I put un off the files in the wrong place.
Next time I have more careful

cool..thanks for the update!

Hi, is there any chance anyone knows how to put a close button at both the top and bottom? It would be nice to have a close button on the top when there are really big images that go below the bottom of the screen and the user doesn't feel like scrolling down below the screen to close the image.

Also I am sure some people would like the close buttom at the top instead of bottom.

I would do a google, this gets used in a lot of things, I am sure someone has done it, or if anyone has got thickbox to work, it is easier to use. Wouldn't that be in the style sheet or Java sript...just a guess.

thanks for the info, I will try googleing the lightbox and see if there is someone who has done this. Like you say, there is probably someone who has.

I have a strong feeling it is the Javascript that would accomplish this after looking through the code, but perhaps the css could do it too somehow.

I need to ask, how big of an image are your running. I just can't see where you would need to take up more than the average screen.

You can also use thickbox in the product description area and just not upload a pic for that product, or you cold change the image for the close to be red or something to make it stand out more. If its text or something you have pop up in an image then you could also use a thickbox script, they have a scroll able box. Many options to get around this.

I would really rethink an image that is that big, but what ever works for you. Good luck.

"I would really rethink an image that is that big, but what ever works for you. Good luck." - godspeed27

 Yes, perhaps your right about that, worth thinking about how big these images are. I can't just forget about the 56k crowd, which represents a large part of my audience. 
 I use the large pictures for something such as a pack of needles, which I though people might like to see the points on the needles. Here is an example of an image that is large and includes the packaging in the picture (a lot of people tend not to use packaging in their pictures, but I think it might give viewers more information) <http://fabricstashinc.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=32>  I notice that some of the quilters who come into the physical store examine the products close to their face, so I thought closer is better. 

"thickbox"

Have not ever heard of this, but it seems interesting. I will google for it, and see if implementing it will help.

Thanks very much for your concern

Wow...48856k on one jpg, thats a big file to me, can I suggest. Taking one of them out of the pack, do a close up shot on both ends, that jpg could be 100px x 100px and still show a lot, and have it load way faster. Your site seems to run slow to me too. I would check that out. optimize the images too, if you want to run lightbox you need it all to load up fast as that java will not run until everything is loaded.

Hello,

I am having trouble with my product descriptions in IE6 and i think might be because of the lighbox mod. Now, since i already upgraded to IE7 before this was discovered, it is hard for me to test and look into. I had made a post in the layout help area, and someone replied with the following:

"looks like the lightbox is the problem here: explorer shows some errors when loading its javascript. This version of Lightbox is obviously not presently supported by IE.

Uninstall the mod, your problem should be fixed!"

Now, i don't want to uninstall lightbox because i really like it, and so i've come here to see if anyone could help in any way.

The site can be found here: http://www.qcookies.com

Thanks in advance! :smile:

OK this is a very basic question indeed but one that I need to ask. I am in no way a coder but have manged to get by.

I have recently installed Zen Cart latest one and would like to install lightbox, however I am not clear as to what exactly to upload.

If I upload the includes folder surely that would delete my current includes folder and mess up zen cart. Or do I need to upload the files individually annd if so where. Please please help a novice.

Wel I have taken a shot at just uploading the files in the required places and after doing so I have put up a test product and the lightbox add on does not seem to work. Have no idea why this wld be.

www.umz.com/zen

If anyone has any ideas please let me know what the problem could be.

Wish I could edit the above posts...got it working now...it is fantatic I bow down to you sir for developing this and to all developers out there for having the skills.

I love this contrib, but I am having an issue with Opera. The opacity of the image seems to be about 60% making it very dull.
IE and Firefox seem to display images OK though.
I tried editing the opacity here:

#overlay {
-moz-opacity:0.6px;
background-color:#000;
filter:alpha(opacity=60); {changed this to 100 but had no effect}
height:500px;
left:0;
opacity:0.6px;
position:absolute;
top:0;
width:100%;
z-index:90;
}

Has anyone else experience this?

Update:
I tried a different computer running the Opera browser and it works OK, so the issue is isolated to my laptop. (which is unfortunate because this is my main development system).
I would still appreciate feedback on this issue. My specs are:

Opera Version
9.20
Build
8771
Platform
Win32
System
Windows XP (SP2)
Java
Sun Java Runtime Environment version 1.6

Auzm,

You know when you upload stuff, it doesn't delete the folder. If there is a file in that folder it will over right it, depending on your clients setup, but it will not delete the folder.

As for opera..whats the amount of people who use it. My stats on my site for Opera are less than 1% of my users. Check out the lightbox site to see if there is a fix for this as the person who made the module did not make lightbox. google it, you will find it.

Ok, I've read the thread but excuse me if I missed something....this is a long one!

Had a problem showing my additional images but solved it but I want to know if this is the "right" solution or if I'm missing something.

Example I'll use- item.jpg, item_a.jpg, item_b.jpg

1st picture showed up great but next image would not and hung up the browser/Lightbox. Clicked on an additional picture and even though it was in the same folder and named as above.

Looking at the location of the additional picture it was looking for it in the Large image folder even though the main/1st picture loaded fine without a counterpart in the large folder.

So I put copies of the additional photos in the large folder and added the suffix so the looked like this: item_a_LRG.jpg, item_b_LRG.jpg

Worked fine but is there another problem or is this the procedure to follow with additional picture items?

Curious mostly because with the first picture Lightbox seems to "create" the larger image.

This mod, by the way, blows everyone away that I show it too (including me!). It's great!

Jeffey:

Looking at the location of the additional picture it was looking for it in the Large image folder even though the main/1st picture loaded fine without a counterpart in the large folder. So I put copies of the additional photos in the large folder and added the suffix so the looked like this: item_a_LRG.jpg, item_b_LRG.jpg Worked fine but is there another problem or is this the procedure to follow with additional picture items? Curious mostly because with the first picture Lightbox seems to "create" the larger image.
Primary question: Do you have Image Handler 2 installed?

Woody

Does having IH2 cause lightbox not to work.

I have installed the latest version and it does not seem to work any longer.