ugghhh LightWindow Support
So apparently all of my responses in the forum have been marked as spam until today so no one thinks I am supporting this thing, greeeaaaat. Even worse I took a look around google today and am getting some n00b bashing because they cannot seem to install it or have issues with media that is untested. So in response I have a few words of wisdom.
- RTFM (Read The F%$*@!*? Manual), Seriously so many questions coming in that I blatantly address in the documentation.
- If you find there is a bug, post it. I am working on v2 already and have had a serious amount of fuuuun with the iframes and various media. Bottom line this is a problem in the current release for Firefox ONLY and on the PC only.
- We are at v1.2.1, so get it, it fixes alot of bugs we saw early on.
- Don’t ask me how to skin it, if you don’t know CSS time to learn, well until I get to v2 in which the skinning feature will be added and will be super sweet.
- The LightWindow is a configurable system and may need to be configured on install…. so RTFM.
- This is an Open Source Project, please keep that in mind.
- If you have a problem and don’t give me a url, you won’t get any help.
- Finally if you refer to it as anything but LightWindow in post (ie LightBox, GreyBox, Light….) I will not answer you.
Now I am sorry if I am coming across as a little harsh but its a two way street. All you folks that have emailed me I will be getting back with you in a few days. Thanks everyone that has posted and has helped out thus far, you guys are a huge help!
Jun 6th 2007
Hey,
this is very cool. My one complaint is that the caption and params won’t validate hwen placed in a . Perhaps that content could be added into the title tag.
Just an Idea…
Thanks,
-Mario
Jun 7th 2007
YOU ROCK, spent time looking for lightbox that would open content, found moodalbox, then realised I couldn’t use both of them on the same page
searched the net high and low and eventually found this site.
your script is freakin awesome, thanks a ton for all the hardwok, keep it up
Shem
Jun 18th 2007
Kevin,
First this is awesome. I’ve been playing with the javascript and CSS for a few days now and love it. However, as I began testing my mockup, I noticed that IE (6 and 7) really really don’t like me. The window seems to collapse on itself.
Screenshot: http://iansherr.com/broken.png
In general, I had a really hard time with the original script being able to open php/html from an internal link. For some reason, the window action wouldn’t happen, and instead it would just go to the link directly. So, instead, I changed some of the js to process all internal on-site files as external pages.
Anyway, I’ve tested this with both my version and the original downloaded version and I still have trouble.
iansherr.com/untitled1.php has my version of the js running. check out the “writing’ button and click on a link to see what I’m talking about. It should be opening a window within a window, much like I have set up in the photography section. But no dice.
Just to make sure it wasn’t my fault from putzing with the script, I set it up with the originally downloaded script and still have trouble:
iansherr.com/untitled2.php
This version has the original issue where I couldn’t open windows with internal webpages - which is why I modded the JS script to begin with. But even this version’s windows are collapsing in IE.
I know you’re releasing a new version soon, but I figured, at worst, you could see what’s going on and make sure this bug doesn’t exist in the newer version.
If you need anything more explained, please let me know. Again, excellent work, and I can’t wait to see the new code!
Jun 19th 2007
Hi - Thanks for all your hard work. I appreciate it and am glad to have this for instances like the swf intro I just implemented using LightWindow. Makes for a very spiffy presentation.
What I wanted to report is a bug, I guess. I have the Titlebar toggled on so ‘close’ link shows. What I notice is that if you close LightWindow, then activate it again without reloading the page, the ‘close’ link in the Titlebar doesn’t show up the second time you open the LightWindow. Tried it in FireFox v1.8 and IE7 with same result. The above website link is to the test site where we are working on this project, not the permanent home of SAI Engineering so look soon if you want to try for yourself. Hope this is helpful.
Thank you, adain for your contribution to open source.
Jun 22nd 2007
Wow, this thing is great. But even after reading and using the manual, fo some reason I can’t get the inline content lightwindow to close after it is opened.
I click outside the lightwindow and the overlay background div fades away, but the inline content layer remains.
Ideas?
Jun 24th 2007
hi! thanks kevin for the nice piece of work. Although I still have one problem.
I can’t seem to pass variables from a FORM using GET and POST methods. I followed everything in the documentation, probably read it more than 20 times to see if i’m missing something but sadly, it still wont work.
can i request for a copy of your hello.php file in my email? thank you very much.
Jun 25th 2007
you rock
Jun 27th 2007
great work. it seems to be the completest lightbox system out there right now, especially for scriptaculous usrs like me. too bad the support thing is biting you in the ass. maybe a support forum is a good idea so people can help each other out.
Jun 28th 2007
I owe you so much beer… or booze… or both…
Jul 4th 2007
Hello! Kevin Miller
It would like to thank the great work (Lightwindow). Congratulations!
Link is possible to function as the example below:
PDF Example - See how you can pull up a PDF?
Error
I dont want
http://www.site.com
This is my directorio:
images/sampleplan.pdf
images/image01.jpg
moveis/test.swf
Is Possible?
Thank you
meujovem
Brazil
Nov 24th 2007
n00bs that aren’t humble should have humbleness beaten into them.
Mar 11th 2008
Hey!I Form China
您的LightWindow 2.0 不支持GB2312输出！
Mar 23rd 2008
Hey Kevin,
First of all you totally rule. I just started a new design gig and as soon as I get my first paycheck I’m donating to your macbook pro fund.
I was wondering if there was a way to get a flash music player to display in lightwindow. for example it would be cool to get the following page to display in lightwindow:
http://delugenal.com/harris_V3/ahimsa.html
(any suggestions from anyone would totally help)
Thanks again for everything
-noah
May 4th 2008
hallo kevin,
thanks for this great tool. I am also going to donate, but there’s one problem I have:
I tried to use the form feature and followed exactly your form-example. the formin the lightwindw does reload, but the form data is not available in $_GET or $_POST.
this is my link for openening the lightwindow:
‘ params=”lightwindow_width=175,lightwindow_height=200″ class=’lightwindow page-options’>[new fleet item]
and this is my form:
Submit
another problem is, that the lightwindow gets about 20px wider and higher on every submit.
is there any silly mistake in my scripts? or is tehre something else to do? my prototype-version is the newset and some form-fields are arrays.
please help me
greetings from cologne/germany
marcus
May 7th 2008
Has the swf mouse interaction problem in firefox ever been solved? I’ve been looking around but can’t find a solution anywhere.
Lightwindow is awesome….thanks a pile for taking the time to make it!
May 22nd 2008
jbknjknvsdkjds
Jun 24th 2008
this is a really great script! well done.
Mike
heavy lift
Jul 9th 2008
I am trying to launch the lightwindow from javascript and getting problems. I get a blank lightbox opening up: here’s my sample code:
myLightWindow = new lightwindow();
myLightWindow.activateWindow({
href: ‘http://stickmanlabs.com/images/kevin_vegas.jpg’,
title: ‘Waiting for the show to start in Las Vegas’,
author: ‘Jazzmatt’,
caption: ‘Mmmmmm Margaritas! And yes, this is me…’,
left: 300
});
Please help if you can. thank you
Jul 17th 2008
Macohead
Has the swf mouse interaction problem in firefox ever been solved? I’ve been looking around but can’t find a solution anywhere.
Lightwindow is awesome….thanks a pile for taking the time to make it!
——-
having the same problem… any reply on this?
Jul 31st 2008
LightBox is great, but
can the modal window stay on top until users click on the close button?
Right now, if the users click on anywhere in the page, the modal window goes away.
I see the reference to “http://forum.stickmanlabs.com/viewtopic.php?id=75”
for help setting up a modal lightwindow but the link is broken
Can someone help?
Aug 1st 2008
My opinion complete shit. Hard coded images? Which you didn’t include.
Can’t hook events, cant get “inline content” to work at all. - I mean it’s not worth my time.
Aug 9th 2008
This is the best lightbox but I have some issue with it that I can’t seem to be able to solve by my self. if you’ll take a look at the website you’ll see that after I open the lightwindow the site jump click again and it’d goes back to it’s place if any one can check it out cuse I really need the swf ability
Thanks
Ran
Aug 27th 2008
This is awesome. I love it. I wish there was a way for me to automatically close the window after doing whatever I need to do. I’m looking through the source, but I don’t know how to activate the window I’m currently using. Any help will be much appreciated.
Aug 27th 2008
Nevermind, figured it out: parent.myLightWindow.deactivate();
Thank you for this awesome software.
Sep 10th 2008
Hi,
I’m having problems loading the lightwindow after the ajax call. my lightwindow type is external…
can any one help me…
Thanks
Sep 24th 2008
i love the lightwindow, i have the lightwindow load an html but the JAWS reader doesnt read it. any ideas on how to make JAWS recognize the html being loaded?
thank you.
Sep 28th 2008
Hi,
Has anyone had the problem of quicktime not showing a picture but having audio come through in Firefox 3 on pc? I can get quicktime to work in a couple other lightbox mods but for some reason it won’t work right for me in ff3. Even on the demo links provided here on the site I get no picture. I checked on a couple other pc’s as well and same thing. Any fix?
Sep 30th 2008
Hello!
Thank you very much for this great stuff!
Currently I’m using symfony 1.1.2. which comes with prototype 1.6.0.2.
LightWindow doesn’t work properly with this version. If I open a LightWindow with a size of 800 x 600 pixels, the window appears in die correct dimensions, but a few milliseconds later (when content is loaded), the window gets blown up to screensize.
I can’t downgrade to the older version of prototype.
Any hints to get it work?
Greets from Austria,
Gerhard gerhard > schranz > gmail > com
Oct 10th 2008
First off, thank you for creating lightwindow, it works great!
I have however ran into a bug. This bug is easily recreated on the lightwindow demo page by defining a url variable (i.e. http://www.stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow/?test=1), refreshing the page, and then clicking on the “inline content” demo link. It appears lightwindows inline content refuses to work when url variables are defined.
Is there a way to fix this?
I’d love to get it working as soon as possible.
Oct 21st 2008
thanks..
Oct 30th 2008
It seems there’s a bug when you open a lightwindow to an image that has a high dpi value - as per usual this bug is only evident in IE6 and 7. Basically the image opens up tiny the first time you open it (and I mean tiny - smaller than a stamp) but thereafter it opens ok. If anyone’s seen this and has come up with a solution, I’d love to hear from you.
BTW, I’m not expecting any help from stickman himself on this - it seems that since he got enough cash to buy his macbook he closed the forum and isn’t giving any support even to those of us who donated not insignificant sums of money towards his cause.
Nov 26th 2008
This is AWESOME! I love it and I contributed to it yesterday. Thanks for takign the effort to create this.
I have one issue though, when submitting a form to an action page, the action page isn’t seeing the form element (input field or textarea). Any ideas about that?
Dec 9th 2008
The problem with IE and the tiny images is that IE does not have a naturalWidth property, so the if statement at line 1218 always evaluates as true. If the image is too big, then the function runs before IE can calculate the true width and height, so getHeight() and getWidth() both return 30 (at least with the default styles). One solution is to add another if statement to see if the height set by getHeight is greater than 30. One caveat — this only works if all the images in your gallery are all larger than 30px tall.
Starting at line 1218:
this.checkImage[i] = new PeriodicalExecuter(function(i) {
if (!(typeof $(’lightwindow_image_’+i).naturalWidth != “undefined” && $(’lightwindow_image_’+i).naturalWidth == 0)) {
var imageHeight = $(’lightwindow_image_’+i).getHeight();
if (imageHeight > 30) { // Fixes IE not having naturalWidth
this.checkImage[i].stop();
if (imageHeight > this.resizeTo.height) {
this.resizeTo.height = imageHeight;
}
this.resizeTo.width += $(’lightwindow_image_’+i).getWidth();
this.imageCount–;
$(’lightwindow_image_’+i).setStyle({
height: ‘100%’,
width: ‘100%’
});
if (this.imageCount == 0) {
this._processWindow();
}
}
}
}.bind(this, i), 1);
Dec 24th 2008
Hi, I’m having an issue with IE - swf and images work fine but nothing happens when i try to open a webpage on lightwindow.
Any ideas??
Works fine in firefox.
Jan 13th 2009
For lightwindow to work in IE i changed the DOCTYPE heading at the top of my html page 2
started working fine then
Jan 13th 2009
Lets try that again,
For lightwindow to work in IE i changed the DOCTYPE heading at the top of my html page 2
********* (don’t include asterisks)
started working fine then
Jan 13th 2009
Sh8t how do you add a link without it disappearing
http://mjijackson.com/shadowbox/doc/faq.html its at the bottom of the shadowbox url
Jan 26th 2009
very amazing blog. Thanks for your diligently works
Feb 20th 2009
This is one of the codes for a game on my site, when i use it for firefox it works great but when i try to use it with internet explorer i get Error: invalid argument
TRY IT PLEASE I NEED HELP!
Mar 4th 2009
haha, the code i repaired for dreamweaver has reverted to your syntax when pasted here.
ok be wary of ‘ & ” (the speech symbols) from this page as it pastes in to DW wrong and should be manually changed and also this line of code :
this.imagecount–;
should have two minus symbols beside the semi colon ( i missed these very tiny but important things first time around and want to spare someone else the hassle!)
ta
Mar 7th 2009
I just discovered lightwindow tonight and tried it but I can’t get it to work with a .swf file. What happens is that it opens up in a new window (so to speak), no faded or greyed-out effect or nothing. I was told it could be something with a conflict with my other script file for my page. Any ideas?
Mar 7th 2009
How do I change the title and close fonts?
Apr 10th 2009
I’ll start with: I love this project! I know I’m not a hardcore programmer but it’s not about the LightWindow working… It works GREAT! However, has anyone had the issue where videos stream just fine when you view them directly but then when they open in the LightWindow they must load the entire video before playing? I’m using quicktime btw.
Thx!
Apr 11th 2009
Thanks
Apr 16th 2009
Can someone help me fix this: http://www.misfitshapes.com/boards/semi.html
For some reason the background isn’t being blacked out…
Thanks in advance!!
May 5th 2009
I just spent several hours digging thru the Lightwindow code for the default form handler because I just couldn’t figure our how the included php file was working for the form submissions, and no page that I was writing would.
What i eventually found was that the Ajax.request was doing the submission using GET and the pages was writing a file on the server with the querystring info, then the page was called again to read the file on disk.
As implemented, I don’t think this method is very secure, and a form with any consecutive traffic is going to get its wires crossed occasionally.
Does anyone have another form handler that can be used instead of the default on in the lightwindow.js file?
Maybe something as simple as using Ajax.Updater instead of Ajax.Request?
May 11th 2009
click on sandiego journal image…
I really am a big fan of your work! I need a serious help….good part is I figure out flashpaper to work on my website only problem is I have a flashbanner with logo and globe…what happens is when I preview the flash paper pdf it goes under my flash banner….
Everything looks fine in firefox and IE but it does not work on SAFARi and chrome!
Can you help me fix this bug I would really appreciate it!
May 19th 2009
Hi Kevin. Big thanks for this script. Nice to have the ability to show such a variation in content unlike so many other lightbox scripts!
Only trouble is I seem to have a problem in IE7. The window pops up and just flies off to the to left. Seems to be fine in Safari and Firefox.
Any ideas why? (it could well be my n00b st00pidity)
http://www.westhouseorthodontics.com/index.html
Many thanks in advance for your help. And happy to donate too.