LightWindow v2.0 Released!
Its out guys, check it out, below are the features!
Also, help me out guys with trying to get a MacBook Pro, it would be appreciated!
I have spent a lot of time rewriting the LightWindow system and every request in the forum has been addressed and added. However developing still goes slower than I would like as I don’t have regular access to a mac, this being said I am asking you guys to donate $5 (or more if you like ;)) to help me reach this goal of a shiny new MacBook Pro.
Those who donate will receive guaranteed, timely support. Bottom line people who pay get priority. If you would like a custom theme for your company, please email me and this can be worked out. Happy coding, and I’ll see you guys in the forums!
What are all of the features?
- Supports EVERY Media type and renders it appropriatly.
- Better Animations!
- All video/media bugs have been resolved!
- More functions for you to access!
- Major improvements to IE!
- Create your own custom overlays including transparent patterns!
- Galleries [Anything can be a gallery, the only limitation is your theme and markup]
- You can create your own theme including markup/css/animations.
- Automatically detects media and source.
- A variety of parameters are available to further customize the experience.
- Window will fit content fetched! Excludes i-frame content!
- The window is perfectly centered on the screen by default or you can set its position!
- You can set a title with the title attribute.
- The caption and details are dynamically sized to fit the content.
- Multiple Galleries are allowed with a Menu on the Galleries.
- All windows will shrink to fit the screen including Image Sizes (Though in some cases its not recommended, i.e. fixed sized windows)
- Submit Forms via the window.
- ANY Character is supported with the exception of ‘[’ & ‘]’ (These are used to delineate categories for galleries)
- author, caption, title, and params (Added for this library) attributes are supported
- Click anywhere on the overlay to close the window or the ESC key. Optionally you can create your own close links or enable the title bar and use that close link.
- Instantiate a window on the fly instead of on page load.
- Create a window on the fly!
- Flash is resized to fit window (even if lightwindow_width and lightwindow_height are passed).
- Control or launch windows from an iframe!
- This core library can be used to recreate and look and feel you have seen before!
- …there’s more so read on!
Jul 10th 2007
where’s the download link?
Jul 10th 2007
@James…. http://stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow/#download
Jul 10th 2007
@Shem… Thanks, because the site still refers to 1.2 i didnt think the link had been updated lol! sorry about that!! i did wonder ! :os
Jul 11th 2007
There’s a bug!
The bug is that the downloaded file contains html code to reference lightwindow.css.
You gotta change this to lightWindos.css.
This took me 10 hours to figure out…
If this helped you, please visit http://zedomax.com!
max
Jul 11th 2007
Oops, I mean lightWindow.css… The W makes all the difference.
This is awesome plugin dude!! THANKS!
I will donate some money in the future if our new shopping cart does well with this plugin…
Jul 11th 2007
WOW! Really impressive work!
Do you know if anyone has done a rails helper class for LightWindow?
Jul 12th 2007
Guaaah!!!
From Argentina.
AWESOME!!!
In Argentinian:
Es re ZARPADO LO!!!
Jul 12th 2007
phil-
There is one on the way, it will be out either this week or next.
Kevin
Jul 18th 2007
your work is GREEEAT !!!!
I remark for this v2:
I used the old version of lightwindow .. when I upgraded lightwindow to v2 i had to change all the classes and params in my website (urff). A constance in var declarations for next v3 would be great.
Once again thank you! Great work, Great team
Jul 18th 2007
The classes will remain this way, I just didn’t like the lW so I moved to lightwindow. Also you can set the default classNames without having to change your code. In the options you could make it so that every class of ‘foobar’ is a lightwindow. Check out the How To section.
Kevin
Jul 19th 2007
Lighwindow 2.0 compress js, where??
Jul 23rd 2007
I tried posting on your message boards for help, but it banned me. I sent an email to your gmail account listed but haven’t heard back yet. i donated.
Jul 31st 2007
when linking to a youtube video in IE as you have on this site, the video does not appear in IE. maybe this is just my computer. can you help me out?
Jul 31st 2007
nevermind, i’m a moron.
Jul 31st 2007
Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! wkvkpckmtbolvo
Aug 1st 2007
Great job!!!
But when I try to open a. php file it does not work correctly (only!!) with IE. It opens the window up and right in the page and it’s possible to see it. can you help us?
Thanks a lot; we will donate if it works…
Aug 1st 2007
I put together a little tutorial on adding Flickr Slideshows to my blog with lightwindow here:
http://qualitypeoples.com/2007/08/flickr-slideshow-tutorial/
Aug 12th 2007
hi…
wondering how you were able to use this code :
SWF Gallery - Any media can now be used in a GALLERY!
Header #2
Header #3
yet only the first link shows up. that’s exactly what i am trying to do, to show a painting and some details when the viewer clicks next.
did i miss something ?
thanks a lot btw - great work.
kaz
Aug 18th 2007
interesting
Aug 18th 2007
can you provide a working example of using DailyMotion videos within a LightWindow, please?
thank you.
Aug 29th 2007
This is awesome, just mind-blowingly awesome.
I have a pretty revolutionary idea (well thats what i think anyways). Have you ever used the cooliris preview extension for firefox?
It lets you open a small temporary window within firefox to preview a link without clicking it.
You have the excellent potential to create a firefox extension that allows the user to do the same thing but instead of opening in a small window, the link would open in LightWindow!
That would be soo awesome and you would probably get 30 macs with such a extension and a larger audience.
Again great work. and anyone who knows how to make a firefox extension like the one I described, feel free to give it a try because i know nothing on how to make extensions.
Aug 30th 2007
I noticed that images get distorted and pixelated if the image is larger than the browser window. Lightwindow 2.0 will try to resize the image to fit the window, but it looks awful! Is there a configuration to set it so the image will remain its true size without being resized & distorted?
Aug 31st 2007
Hello everybody I have used the Lightwindow V2.0 It working Fine in FireFox , Netscape , IE7 But i dont know Why in IE6 it doesnt open bigger Image its opening Thumbnail only. while i have given this code.
But it is opening thumbnail Image in IE6 but not that b_903.jpg Any one can help me . Even when the page is loading in status bar show done with error. (Object Required) is this error of Light window Java script error?
Keyur Gajjar
Sep 2nd 2007
Awesome! Using Lightwindow form submission technique, I can display UI error and confirm messages rather than displaying the standard alert and confirm boxes. Wow; I’m empowered.
Sep 3rd 2007
Hey I will donate could u please help me customise lightwindow for use on a portfilio section for a website?
thanx
Sep 4th 2007
Will it work if the requested page does a redirect?
Sep 6th 2007
LightWindow 2.0 needs prototype 1.5.1.1, while my website is using prototype 1.5.0. Does LightWindow has lower version which supports prototype 1.5.0?
My website is using lib provided by http://script.aculo.us/ which is not compatible with prototype 1.5.1. So I have to find a version which support prototype 1.5.0.
Sep 6th 2007
I get validation errors with the CSS that lightWindow uses. Can I just change them to solve this or will it break something else?
170 #lightWindow-photo-galleries-tab Property -moz-opacity doesn’t exist : 0.7
171 #lightWindow-photo-galleries-tab Property opacity doesn’t exist : 0.7
172 #lightWindow-photo-galleries-tab Parse Error - opacity=70)
196 #lightWindow-photo-galleries-list Property -moz-opacity doesn’t exist : 0.7
197 #lightWindow-photo-galleries-list Property opacity doesn’t exist : 0.7
198 #lightWindow-photo-galleries-list Parse Error - opacity=70)
Sep 10th 2007
Hallo! Could you make a cookie script for the accordion script, please?
Sep 14th 2007
Hi, my interest is to setup Lightwindow in my future page video swf and text. Unfortunatly I didn’t well understand how and where to put the code that calls movie from gallery folder. Don’t you have a video tutorial for that?
Thanks,
Sep 18th 2007
very cool!!
how about supporting .flv?
Sep 20th 2007
Shaggy : why not using a pre formatted swf with buil din player the using params to throw to flv link/src to the swf etc…. height size etc
Sep 24th 2007
im not sure if anyone else has encountered this, but im using interactive flash files.
when brought up in the “lightwindow” no button interaction is there.
again when directly linking to an swf no button interaction in the flash movie.
any ideas?
Sep 27th 2007
Valentijn: you’re right… i hate that stupid flash player thing but where i work i have to use it…
that’s what i like about this script. it supports .mov’s and stuff. better yet .mp4.
anyone want to port this to jquery?
Oct 15th 2007
can anyone direct or tell me how to open lightbox from flash,then have that lightbox whatever open a form or iframe. Have not found a site that explains how to get flash to open lightbox that opens a php form?
Oct 22nd 2007
Hi,
lightwindow looks great! but i have a problem with an flv player. How can i add som params to the player. only variable can be assigned via the GET string. Do u have a reason?
greets
Oct 23rd 2007
I flipped you 3 times the requested rate as your work is worh it. Could you give me some guidence on where to install js files on server and proper pasting in the header of the index page? Using rapidweaver and have a custom template that i am trying to get to work….
thank you again
MA
Oct 28th 2007
This is an awesome application. I have tried viewing some sites that use the app with IE7 and for some reason it is not working for me. Just a FYI. Keep up the awesome work.
Nov 1st 2007
Hi, have a problem with the lightwindow background.
I had build the site on a mac, everythings fine, but not on a PC with IE 6 and 7
The lightwindow background is always only seen in the browser´s window dimension.
If you scroll it down, it´s missing. What can I do?
Thanks
Dietmar
Nov 4th 2007
if you display images the lightwindow isn’t always compatible to the IEs. If you want to increase browser compatibility you should use this fix:
open the lightwindow.js and search for the lines 1231-1233
$(’lightwindow_image_’ i).setStyle({
height: ‘100%’
});
and change the line 1232 to: height: ‘100%’, width: ‘100%’
I hope tht helps to increase the compatibility of lightwindow. Maybe Kevin can add this to release version.
greets, martin
Nov 6th 2007
I love what I see with lightwindow, but I am lucky enough to hunt down part of CSS to change a color. What type of donation to your Mac Book Pro fund would convince you to setup lightwindow on my website.
I want to use it for a video gallery. You can see the navigation here http://www.kaplanstudio.com/Portfolio/motion/index.php
I want to launch the video in lightwindow when the thumbnail is clicked. After 1 or 2 are setup I think I can use them as templates to do the rest.
Nov 20th 2007
Hi All
I set up the lightbox to show a clients recent party pics and all works with firefox PC and safari mac but in IE7 on PC I keep getting an intermittent resizing down. When the lightbox opens, instead of resizing to the full size of the image it downsizes to a very small box… I did put in the fix mentioned above but that did not resolve… Any ideas
Gino
Nov 20th 2007
Hi Again
Sorry for posting to this page… about the resize problem - found what I needed in the forum… did not know that there was such good support there..
Gino
Nov 20th 2007
I am trying to implement lightwindow but having a problem in IE6 browser. I am trying to run a wmv file in a light window and it works great in all browsers except IE. The lightwindow displays with the mediaplayer but nothing plays. Is this a bug? Can some one help me out? Thanks…
Nov 26th 2007
If you got an ugly slow page with lots of elements that take time to load, the lightwindow activation will not work until all has been loaded.
So i removed the “//Event.observe(window, ‘load’, lightwindowInit, false);” on line 1913 from lightwindow.js and added the code below to my the website containing the scripts and the slow loading elements.
//load the object as fast as possible in case the site loads slowly
//so users can click the overlay links though not all pictures and stuff may be loaded
var myLightWindow = new lightwindow();
//when the whole body is loaded, the page-dimensions get calculated again
// and the height of the transparent overlay is modified accordingly (see body onload)
function reinit(mwl) {
overlay_obj = document.getElementById(’lightwindow_overlay’);
//overlay_obj.style.height = ‘60000px’;
mwl._getPageDimensions();
overlay_obj.style.height = mwl.pageDimensions.height ‘px’
}
This seems to work for me
hope it helps somebody.
Thank you Kevin for your good work!
Nov 28th 2007
Good work.
Dec 12th 2007
Hi,
great piece of software (donated for your MBP immediatly)! But I can’t get it to work with mp4 and m4v video files. I added them to the lightwindow.js file but still nothing happens.
I worked from the default index.html.
I uploaded some files in this format and I’m travelling on really slow internet connections, so converting it to an other format is not a real option…
Can somebody please help me?
Dec 12th 2007
Ha! My bad, it works!
I was just on a really slow connection so nothing would show up for ages….
Dec 15th 2007
LightWindow v2.0 - really cool gadget…I’ve got it on my list for a major backend site overhaul planned.
Don’t you have a support@ email or ticket system ?
How the Mac fund coming ?
(Don’t stop there; you need a desktop and dual screens too
Dec 21st 2007
Man, you have no idea how much you have helped me out, this is the best script I’ve found (by far) for embedding SWF files and I will try and donate something for you,as this script is, just soo good :). Nice one mate!
Dec 24th 2007
If it possible to use this on an image map ?
Dec 24th 2007
Forget that question, I’m silly , sorry…. I asked before trying…
Dec 30th 2007
I am loving this script - it can do so many thing, however I can’t seem to get it to post from a formm to an external action url - I was hoping to use it to post to paypal’s cart, but no go - any suggestions? (I want to have the cart show in the lightbox window when the paypal add to cart button is clicked - thanks, Megan
Jan 2nd 2008
Wow..Great Job,It’s Superb Fantastic!
In Indonesian Says:
Bagus..
Jan 16th 2008
Hi, have a problem with the lightwindow gray background.
With the Firefox all ok, but with the IE 6 and 7 the gray, transperent background is always only seen in the browser´s window dimension. I have a long site, and when I click on a images on the end of the site, I have no transperent backgroud images, when I scroll up to the beginning of the site then the baqckground images are show.
What can I do?
Thanks
Niko
Jan 18th 2008
Very Nice Script.. Thanks
Jan 24th 2008
Hey, I’ve spent some time poking around with firebug, and looking in the CSS, but I can’t seem to figure out how to set the damn background of the lightwindow. I want it black instead of white! Especially when embedding youtube vids. Any ideas?
Feb 4th 2008
Thanks - great work.
Could put it to good use on our portfolio of videos. http://abitofmagic.no/video
Donation has been sent. Hope that the Mac Book is not too far off?
Feb 10th 2008
Hat off to you!!! I must say it’s good not seeing the same old lightbox creation redone however transformed and all grown up.
Feb 19th 2008
i love this stuffs and has posted a review in my blog, thanks kevin
Feb 21st 2008
Thanks so much for your awesome script! It has helped me so much embedding Quicktime files while making the interface look great.
I’ve just sent my donation. Hope you get that MacBook soon.
Feb 23rd 2008
Your comment contains very useful information about all thank you Tercüme Bürosu
Feb 24th 2008
Hi,
I use LightWindow 2.0 in my website. Some times when I click on a thumbnail instead of enlarging the photo becomes smaller. Where is the problem and how to correct it?
Feb 24th 2008
Thank you for the awesome lightwindow!!
However, I’ve run into a problem that many others seem to have had before.
That is, the interactive buttons on youtube videos or google videos DIDN’T WORK ANYMORE IF I MAKE ALL MY VIDEOS IN A GALLERY!! (I use a Macbook, and do it on Safari.)
I’ve been searching in the forum and anywhere I can, but there isn’t any solution.
I’ve tried lots of “light-whatevers,” but at last they are all dumped into my trash can, for none of them gets the interactive buttons working well with the Prev and Next buttons…
This is a really good app, and I really hope that it gets developed!!
Feb 25th 2008
Problem Solved!!
For Those who get the same problem in buttons,
go google “shadowbox”
It may be a good makeshift
Anyway, thank you, Kevin
Feb 27th 2008
I am using lightwindow to display swf’s, and for some reason swf’s ive created with black backgrounds come out white and it actually inverts the colors. can you help?
Mar 3rd 2008
Has anyone encountered any problems when using lightwindow to call another website when they have a flash navigation menu installed. For some reason lightwindow is being thrown off by this and I’ve been troubleshooting this for awhile. Perhaps it can be in the CSS. Any one who has had this problem and fixed it let me know. Thanks, Joe
Mar 13th 2008
Since I’ve upgraded with Quicktme 7.4.1 on my laptop, Quicktime movies in LightWindow are no longer working in IE7 but still work in FF2. On my desktop still in Quicktime 7.1 everything works great as usual.
Mar 14th 2008
I am also with that problem with WMV. I click, it opens, I click to close, it closes… But the problem is that it doesnt stop sound! Like it was yet oppened!
How can I fix that? MOV is ok, flash too. but I can only use WMV here… =-(
Thanks for any help! (also my login was not yet approved in the forum) =-)
Mar 15th 2008
I am also having a problem with WMV file. On Mac using Safari, everything works great but as soon I as I tested the page on Windows using both IE7 and Firefox, the wmv doesn’t embed and Windows Media Player opens instead.
I have found that if I embed the WMV onto a HTML page and open that in an iFrame then it works fine.
Great work!!! And a big Thank You!!!
Mar 18th 2008
I have searched the web looking through many different versions of lightbox that claim to be able to play video - and this is the closest I got to full functionality. Thanks. More about it here, btw:
http://blog.bachyaproductions.com/index.php/development/helpful-hints/2008/03/04/lightbox-for-video-and-other-media/
Mar 18th 2008
lightwindow.js
$(’lightwindow’).setStyle({
top: offsetHeight+’px’,
left: offsetWidth+’px’
});
IE7 reports Object doesn’t support object. Any Idea what going on with that codes?
Mar 26th 2008
Don’t give this ass a penny. Doesn’t respond to repeated requests for support. I was banned by his stupid akismet forum plugin, and despite sending 5 emails couldn’t get un-banned. Wish I never gave any money at all.
The software is good though. If only the human half were as respectable.
Mar 31st 2008
Hi there,
This is certainly a great stuff. Just a couple of questions you may all be able to help me with.
Is there a way in my form that when I’ve click on the submit button the LightWindow will close and the page will reload for my users to know that everything has been updated. Also, how do I disable the ‘Click anywhere on the overlay to close the window’? Many thanks!!
Apr 2nd 2008
A small update for enable javascripts on the light window contents.
@@ -1333,10 +1333,12 @@
method: ‘get’,
parameters: ”,
onComplete: function(response) {
+ evalScripts:true,
$(’lightwindow_contents’).innerHTML += response.responseText;
this.resizeTo.height = $(’lightwindow_contents’).scrollHeight+(this.options.contentOffset.height);
this.resizeTo.width = $(’lightwindow_contents’).scrollWidth+(this.options.contentOffset.width);
this._processWindow();
+ response.responseText.evalScripts();
}.bind(this)
}
);
Apr 7th 2008
Dude! this is awesome!
but..seems there is an issue with Flash on Firefox..all the button functions on flash are disable on Firefox. Do you have any clue? Many thanks.
Apr 14th 2008
Hi ! Very great stuff here !
How can I include the Lightwindow gadget in a Accordeon page ?
I try it and it doesn’t work… Is there a script conflict ?
Apr 17th 2008
really amazing stuff
thank you
Apr 24th 2008
It doesn’t work with Mobile Safari, bwub bwub…
Apr 29th 2008
Hi,
This plugin is awesome and easy to setup I would like to give you a donation, but first I need some help to make it work, here is the issue:
I try to call a lightwindow form, from an html/flash mixed page, the
problem is that when the light window is loaded
the flash animation behind come in the first plan when I try to fill out the form fields. Does anybody knows
how can I avoid this issue that happen with FIREFOX and SAFARI MAC latest versions and with Firefox 2.0.0.14 windows XP it’s worse, because the form don’t even appears completely!?
example here:
http://zontispr.com/Tcontact-us.html
thanks a lot
Nelson
Apr 29th 2008
Sorry the good URL is
http://zontispr.com/T2contact-us.html
the first was greybox, anyway it’s the same problem
Nelson
Apr 30th 2008
Love the script. Think I found a bug though. Well, actually, not too sure it’s a bug, but Firebug throws an error, so here goes:
Upon using myLightWindow = new lightwindow({formMethod : ‘post’}); Firebug throws the following error: document.body has no properties
} else if (document.body.scrollHeight > document.body.offsetHeight){ on line 747
I presume it has smth to do with the fact that my window didn’t have any scrollHeight or offset, but I was wondering if there was a way to fix this, so Firebug wouldn’t throw that nasty error.
Nice work other way!
May 7th 2008
Has anyone found a solution for the bug in firefox that won’t allow mouse-interaction with SWF files?
May 7th 2008
FYI… Thanx to weblinx for coming up with the solution for the firefox bug that prevented buttons from working in swfs… all you need to do is add “lightwindow_iframe_embed=true” to the params…
May 10th 2008
I add the “lightwindow_iframe_embed=true” to the params… to fix the SWF interaction problem, but the caption area become odd, only two line space left, and in Safari became a mass, anyone could help me?
May 13th 2008
Nelson… did you try setting the flash on your page to wmmode=”transparent”?
May 15th 2008
Hello,
I absolutely love lightwondow.
However, i encountered one problem with Youtube — I have lightwindow to play youtube movies but lately they stopped working - shows error (object expected) and blank screen. I also checked youtube option on your website (Preview 300)- there’s the same problem. Could you tell me what to do? I really will appreciate your help.
May 29th 2008
Is this able to be used to bring up a box on page load??
May 30th 2008
I am using this script on one of the sites that I’m working on. I’m using lightwindow to display flash but I also have flash running on the page and lightwindow is showing up underneath the flash.
I am using ufo’s for my main flash banner file. Does anyone know a fix for this? I really appreciate any tips. I have already tried adjusting the z-index on the flash banner file.
Jun 1st 2008
Why does each box take so long to load?? I am just trying to display text and it seems to take ages to load…
Is there anyway to fix this?!?
Jun 5th 2008
Hi, Lightwindow have a BUG in IE7. If you access an image for the first time, it appears without the correct size. ¿Do you have any solution for? (thanks from Argentina)
Jun 6th 2008
Hi Gino! I have a same problem. Can you say me, where did you find what I need
Jun 12th 2008
Does anybody know how to disable the “Galleries” link in the bottom left corner of the lightwindow. I have a serious of images to show by clicking the “Next” button, but i don’t want to show the “Galleries” link. Any help would be appreciated.
Jun 23rd 2008
I am very new in javascript as well as in php
though i want ot use lightwindow..
But there are several problem i am facing for submitting a form
i want to make a form for log in. where there should be a user name and password…
with the help of ajax it will check the validity and go to next url or print message on the same window
problem
1. I cant get the value of $_GET[’name’] or $_POST[’name’]
2. even if get the value somehow how can i use ajax
3. cant actually redirect.
I will be very happy if u plz help me…
Jun 23rd 2008
Quicktime movies are not working in Lightwindow - Need a solution!
Trying to start ur Quicktime samples or the movies on my projekt page..
http://www.profunmedia.com/pre/php/detail.php?film_id=7
(on the right side klick quicktime trailer)
allways the same broken quicktime-symbol..?
using IE7 /Quicktime 7.4.5
Thx in advance
Jun 25th 2008
hi, great product. i’ve received a lot of compliments since adding it to my site galleries.
one question though. while you have code for embedding youtube clips was wondering if lightwindow can support vimeo as well. here’s the script that i’m using:
Blah
the whole page loads into set window frame, instead of just the video player.
any ideas?
Jul 2nd 2008
I love this script. But Quicktime movies doesn’t work in Firefox 3. Do anyone has a clue how to fix this?
Jul 3rd 2008
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
The best Ligthbox ever. REALLY THANKS!
All the best,
Rod
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Jul 4th 2008
hi all,
i have problem when trying combine LightWindow v2.0 + css-dock-menu …. when i remove prototype.js..css-dock-menu running …so could u help me friend….
peace from Jakarta
Jul 4th 2008
hi all,
i have problem when trying combine LightWindow v2.0 + css-dock-menu …. when i remove prototype.js..css-dock-menu running …so could u help me friend….
peace from Jakarta
Jul 8th 2008
I was trying to solve an issue with client’s site that had your lightwindow script installed. It wasn’t working properly with No doctype or transitional docrtype in IE, the window generated was being thrown off the screen. I debugged the code and found the following issue. Not sure if it applies or the behavior was because client made some changes in the script but would still like you to know how I fixed it. Two issues I encountered were
a. Window didn’t calculate viewport height and width properly, with No Doctype or transitional Doctype in IE
b. Position fixed style for lightwindow DIV acted weird in these particular doctype settings
Solution for a.
I modified _browserDimensions : function() to following
_browserDimensions : function() {
if (Prototype.Browser.IE) {
if(document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientHeigh){
this.dimensions.viewport.height = document.documentElement.clientHeight;
this.dimensions.viewport.width = document.documentElement.clientWidth;
}else if(document.body){
this.dimensions.viewport.height = document.body.clientHeight;
this.dimensions.viewport.width = document.body.clientWidth;
}
} else {
this.dimensions.viewport.height = window.innerHeight;
this.dimensions.viewport.width = document.width || document.body.offsetWidth;
}
}
Solution for b.
Changed Fixed position to absolute in script
Jul 9th 2008
hey, really cool here i found.
However, as mentioned in previous comment. I tried with FF3, quicktime seems does not work well
Jul 10th 2008
Hey! This looks like the script I’ve been looking for. And IF I can get this to work, I’ll for sure donate : )
I’m trying to get it to work with Spry/Ajax calling a dynamic photo from a Dreamweaver CS3 generated XML/MySQL file. Not working. : (
Anyone have a solution to getting this to play nice with the Dreamweaver generated dynamic Spry calls?
Thanks!
Carlene
Jul 22nd 2008
YO stickman! The lightbox plugin is not popin up QUICKTIME files. ie7 gives a broken qt link iconage and firefox3 just rolls with a blank window.
IDK why… But I had to put my videos on independent pages. Kinda sucked but its a good thing I wasn’t using a f load of videos for my site.
Let me know when the bug is fixed cause I love the plugin and i endorse it to everyone i know…………………………….
Jul 24th 2008
Doesn’t appear to work if the page loads AJAX content and the lightwindow links are in the AJAX content… the links must be in the initial page in order to fire… Is there a fix coming for this?
Otherwise great app.
Jul 29th 2008
Boy.. this is definitely the coolest Lite whatever I have seen. I have been evaluating several LiteBox deviations… but I have never seen something like this.
Below is one of my articles I wrote…
http://199web.com.sg/blog/2008/07/litebox-offsprings-slimbox-thickbox-greybox-and-lytebox/
This is super cool! I wonder if anybody has written a Joomla component for it. If not, I would love to do so!
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 6th 2008
Hi, Great work you are doing here
I am trying to use your script to show a form and submit that form to same page. The response should appear on same light box window. The demo section on site uses some file read write operations, in real scenarios there wont be any IO’s. Can you provide any sample light window scripts that uses normal GET POST varaibles. When I tried I was unable to get these variables.
Please reply,
Aug 11th 2008
@Tim: This is not a problem of lightwindow. If you do an AJAX update on your page it gets loaded with new objects. But a window load event won’t fire. So lightwindow isn’t reïnitialized with the new objects. If you’re using prototype for your AJAX stuff try something like this:
new Ajax.Updater(’container’,'url’, {method:’get’, onComplete:function(){myLightWindow = new lightwindow();}});
I use AJAX requests to update my photo index pages, but my problem is that when I reïnitialize the script this way it still keeps track of the previous gallery. Strange behaviour imho because with the new keyword I expect to create a new object with its own instance variables. Does the script use some kind of cache or are the gallery references stored in a static variable? Did anybody encounter this same problem and found a solution? I’ll dive into the code and if I find a way to reset the galleries I’ll get back to it.
Very nice script by the way, great way to impress my friends with a cool photo gallery.
Bart
Aug 12th 2008
Lightwindow appears to be eating my select dropdown. I’m using it to display some inline content and the content contains some form elements including a select dropdown which vanishes when shown in the lightwindow layer.
Rich
PS I totally agree with the previous comment btw.
Aug 13th 2008
i just asking a question here cause the forum seems to be down =(
im having av problem setting upp a gallery with an image map it works fine in IE but crashes in both firefox and safari as soon as i implement the [ } tags… is there any solution to this? if i get the script to run smothly you will get yor donation!
greatings / joakim
Aug 14th 2008
Hey Kevin, awesome stuff but I ma having some issues getting this to run properly on this site. Have a look at this page and let me know where I am going wrong. I will definitely be donating by the way.
http://www.hl4y.com/index(test).htm
Thanks.
Aug 14th 2008
Hello Guys,
I have already a submit form with lightbox, and it works great!
But I want another submit form where people can send a file
how can i do that?
doesn’t work
Aug 15th 2008
Is anyone else having problems displaying quicktime movies in mozilla 3(or whateer their newest browser is?) Even the demo on this site Doesnt work. Any suggestions would be awesome!
Aug 18th 2008
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Aug 19th 2008
I love you!!! If I could buy you a MacBook Pro, I would in a heartbeat. I will donate soon.
Aug 20th 2008
Lightwindow is great, but I have not been able to get the gallery-function to work with any other content than images. Any one else that has been able to get it to work?
Aug 20th 2008
Can the modal window stay on top until users click on the close button?
How can i do that? Anyone know help me?
Aug 26th 2008
I’m trying to set this up for now, am I just really doing this wrong or does this have to be PHP or something like that? Willing to make a good donation (in advance) for help getting this setup. Looks amazing if I can get it to work.
Thanks in advance.
Aug 28th 2008
Hello !
I paste de lightwindow in my blog to see my family videos from google and i cant see de PREV and NEXT Links.
It also does not work the pause, play and see again keys of the video player
someone can help me ?
Tks in advance
Sergio Gil
www.migranfamilia.org
Aug 29th 2008
Hey,
I came across this site about 2 weeks ago and i was so blown away with Kevin’s cool script that i decided to use it with a site that i was working on. I also implemented it with his accordian script which i think is amazing! I also created a PHP, MYSQL backend to the site that allowed us to add, edit and delete content. In order to show my appreciation I will create a tutorial to show u all how I did this using Dreamweaver and Adobe Developer Toolbox. Stay tuned for more info within the next couple of weeks. BTW please donate to Kevin for his great efforts in bringing these cool scripts to the masses.
Aug 29th 2008
BTW the site i used it with is http://www.askjesus.me.uk
Aug 31st 2008
I am having the same issue as someone from a few months back. The Flash navigation on my main page is staying on top of the Lightbox. We are trying to redo a page on our site, but cannot use it until this works and we can figure out how to get rid of the extra space a the right of the Lightbox area. See the page at: http://whitelightconcepts.com/web-development-design.php
Any help is appreciated…thank you!
Sep 1st 2008
Hi Kevin, we are making extensive use of lightwindow in a site we’re putting together, but have found that if we try to open 2 lightwindows at the same time, things get “a little crazy” and the second window doesn’t open properly. Rather than try and describe the behaviour, please go to www.zenontel.com and open a lightwindow link from the left-hand side whilst another one is still in the early stages of loading and you’ll see what I mean. Have made a $30 donation to the MacBook Pro fund by the way
Your timely response to this query would be VERY much appreciated. Many thanks, Marek
Sep 1st 2008
Hi,
I try to write javascript to create a link dynamically and have it showing all that beautifull staff when it is clicked.I use the foloowing code but it opens the image in the same blank window:
var container=document.getElementById(”DivContainer”);
var myLink = document.createElement(”a”);
myLink.setAttribute (”class”,”lightwindow”);
myLink.href=”Data/Images/step1.JPG”;
myLink.appendChild(document.createTextNode(”Hello world”));
container.appendChild(myLink);
How can I create links dynamically with javascript and when they are clicked,we will have these special effects?
Thanks in advance.
Sep 1st 2008
…..This feature works only if we have static links./..but what if we want to create dynamic links via javascript.
Thanks again!!
Sep 2nd 2008
From these posts I can tell that the answer to my problem is in the forum, but I can’t access it. For the past two weeks I get the error message, “The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.” My problem is that IE is resizing the image to a small thumbnail and not the full image. It works perfectly in firefox everytime, but IE needs a few clicks of the link before it displays the full size image. Many thanks to anyone who can offer assistance.
Sep 2nd 2008
Hi Kevin
I am not sure if you are still checking these comments and/or supporting light window, but since I could not access the forum or find an email address for you I thought I would post here.
I have been working on integrating light window on to our company site www.pmexpertlive.com to use for a form. I have it all working except the submit function.
I have tried it both with a regular submit button and the button option described on your webpage. With you option it does advance to the thank you page in the lightwindow, but the form is not submitted. Using a regular form submit button the form works outside of the lightwindow, but not within.
Can you please contact me with any ideas on how to fix this problem? I would be willing to donate if this problem can be resolved. Thanks for your time and help. I really do like lightwindow and hope to be able to use it long term.
Sep 2nd 2008
I am still having the same problems posted earlier (see below). I have posted here because the forums have not worked for weeks (since I found this site). If these issues cannot get resolved, this script is useless to us. I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT IF SOMEONE WOULD EITHER FIX THE FORUMS OR ANSWER THE ISSUES! Please. I am more than happy to pay even $100 if I know this works. But if it can’t then there is no point and we will just stick to the old tried and true popup windows (ew, but they work) or other scripts. Personally, I would prefer to use this one. It is slick and fast. So, again…please answer or fix the forums. Here is the original post again…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I am having the same issue as someone from a few months back. The Flash navigation on my main page is staying on top of the Lightbox. We are trying to redo a page on our site, but cannot use it until this works and we can figure out how to get rid of the extra space a the right of the Lightbox area. See the page at: http://whitelightconcepts.com/web-development-design.php
Any help is appreciated…thank you!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sep 3rd 2008
Hi,
I finally managed to do the dynamic loaded link trick,using the following code:
var container=document.getElementById(”DivContainer”);
var myLink = document.createElement(”a”);
myLink.setAttribute (”class”,”lightwindow”);
myLink.href=”Data/Images/step1.JPG”;
myLink.id = “myLink”;
myLink.appendChild(document.createTextNode(”Hello world”));
container.appendChild(myLink);
myLightWindow.createWindow(’myLink’);
All I had to do was to assign an id to link and at the end calling the
myLightWindow.createWindow(’myLink’);
Thanks.
Sep 4th 2008
Hi Kevin! Thanks for this great lightwindow script… the only one that really supports all media. After customizing it for a day I am still running into problems.
My testsite is here: http://www.skillboard.com/trash/LOA/tempsite/layout_2.htm
1. The 3rd project is a lightwindow gallery and I would like to move the NEXT/PREV Buttons outside of die lightwindow so it´s not overlapping the images. Couldn´t make it work.
2. whenever I change the bordersize around the content from 10px to anything different, the whole layout gets messed up. Captions are not aligned anymore and the window travels around the screen with every “NEXT”.
is there an easy way to move navigationbuttons to the sides? Thanks for your time and greetings from Austria.
Stefan
Sep 4th 2008
Same issue with LightWindow and the WMV files in IE browser … it pops up, but doesn’t play anything. Any chance of a fix?
Sep 5th 2008
Michelle S,
can you explain what your problem is again in more detail. I went to your site on safari on a mac and the menu is behind the lightwindow. Which browser are you using etc? If you want i can have a look at it for $100. Take a screen grab of the problem and email it to me with an explanation.
regards,
Damian
Sep 7th 2008
We have several issues in relation to LightWindow:
See page: http://whitelightconcepts.com/web-development-design.php
Click on any thumbnail image.
Everything is coming out of the database OK, but there are several display issues:
- When loading in IE 7 or 6 and Firefox on PC, the Flash navigation on the main page (see link above) stays on top of the modal window.
- On first load of a sample, the window sizes too small…on subsequent loads, it sizes correctly to try to contain as much of the page as possible.
- There is too much space to the right of the modal window…it is speced at 10px, but there is clearly more there…maybe it’s trying to make room for a scroll bar that is not appearing??? There also seems to be more space at the bottom as well. I don’t think I missed anything in our CSS, but I have been looking at this so long that I am going bug-eyed.
Thanks,
Michelle
Sep 8th 2008
I have the same problem as Gino Pacitti. He posted on Nov 20th 2007.
The Lightwindow works perfectly in Firefox and Safari, but in IE6 + 7 the lightwindow popup doesn’t work that good. Instead of scaling to the image it scales to a - say - 10 by 10 px box.
He said he found the solution in the forum, but unfortunately the site http://discuss.stickmanlabs.com/ doesn’t work anymore…
If anyone can help me? It would be much appreciated!
and Kevin, all respect to you man! I hope your Macbook is already yours!
grtz from the Netherlands
Sep 8th 2008
Is there a definite fix for the ie collapse problem? Thanks in advance.
Sep 8th 2008
From my earlier reply (Same issue with LightWindow and the WMV files in IE browser … it pops up, but doesn’t play anything. Any chance of a fix?) …
I changed over to a .MOV file. Now it works like a champ in IE, but doesn’t work in Firefox. The .MOV file seems to get called, but you can’t see it (if you have Quicktime Player to autostart, you can hear it though).
I think this code base is getting sale … time to look eleswhere. Sure hate to see something to nice go down the tubes …
Sep 9th 2008
http://particletree.com/features/lightbox-gone-wild/
“Michelle S”
This is in regards to another light box but, it talks about hiding flash in IE so it doesn’t sit on top of the overlay. Maybe it will be helpful for you.
Good luck
palnudb
Sep 10th 2008
Thank you “palnudb”. I will look that over.
Michelle
Sep 12th 2008
Hi. I’ve encountered a problem some of you already described above in a similar way. I implemented several videos on my page using the JW FLV player in combinations with Lightwindow.
And it works just perfect with Firefox, Safari, and the AOL browser (which I believe is based on IE6).
But if I try to open the them using IE7 the window stays white and there is this little yellow excelmation mark in the lower left corner stating the following error message: “Line 1 … Object expected …”.
… by the way, same happens when I want to open the YouTube example on the Lightwindow main page.
The weired thing is: If I click on the link in the local published offline version on my computer (out of Adobe GoLive) it works?!
Can somebody please help? I am getting really desperate! Thanks PAUL
Sep 12th 2008
Hey so where’s your paypal donate button???
Sep 13th 2008
This is an excellent form of a lightbox. I think it’s the best I’ve seen yet.
Sep 14th 2008
hi Kevin !
thanks a lot for your work.
i’ve tested lightbox, multibox and lightwindow… the best is yours
BUT i really need to launch a picture gallery from a javascript call using lightwindow. how do i do this ?
OR a way to launch a picture gallery from a imagemap ?
regards,
frederic
Sep 14th 2008
Help!
The good:
This works great on my site for showing larger images, in almost every browser.
The bad:
In IE7, the lightwindow initializes at 475px, but then shrinks to a 20px box, even though the contained image is also 475px tall.
The problem is intermittant… you never know when things will work and when they won’t.
Do you have any ideas on how to fix this? As you can see, I’ve already tried changing the initial size of the window to 475px when displaying images, with no luck.
Thank you!
Mike
Sep 15th 2008
hi everyone. I have a problem wiht ie 7. when i tryu to load a picture internal or external i get the message “this.galleries[..] is null or not an object”.
I used both the html head section that the demo page uses , and also the html head section described in the “how to use ” section of the lightwindow download site. I have the same results. Can someone help me please?
Sep 16th 2008
Hi and thank you to made this fully featured addon for our websites.
I have a problem with accented letters into external webpages used with lightwindow on an asp platform. I mean that viewing the same page through lightwindow won’t display accented letters correctly, but it does if I load the page directly.
PS The forum link doesn’t work..
Alex
Sep 16th 2008
Excellent work! Works great! One question though. I am following your inline content example and was wondering if there is a way to allow the page to print the content? I want it hidden when viewing the page (as it is in your example), but able to be printed. Is that possible?
Thanks!
Sep 16th 2008
Nice work, but i had a problem when working with video files.All .mov extension files are working fine but when comes to .avi,.3gp they are displaying blank white is coming.What should i do if want to work with that type file extension video files.anyone please suggest me.
Sep 17th 2008
Use this additional code along with previous code in lightwindow.css inorder to fit all ur videos to same size
…
outerObject = this._addParamToObject(’scale’, ‘tofit’, outerObject);
….
innerObject = this._addParamToObject(’scale’, ‘tofit’, outerObject);
Sep 17th 2008
Sorry i typed lightwindow.css instead of lightwindow.js
Sep 17th 2008
innerObject = this._addParamToObject(’scale’, ‘tofit’, outerObject);
Use this instead of above
innerObject = this._addParamToObject(’scale’, ‘tofit’, innerObject);
Sep 17th 2008
Hi I am trying this out and I cannot at all get it to work. I have followed all the instrcutions and what not and still nothing. I keep getting this error:
Error: Prototype.Browser.IE’ is null or not an object
Code: 0
Please can anyone help me?
Sep 18th 2008
i tried this but am getting an error trying to show a pdf. i have a pdf viewer for my browser but the error i get is exception thrown and not caught. why is that?
Sep 19th 2008
After a bit of looking around I found an easy way of launching the lightwindow from Flash -
on (release) {
getURL (”javascript: myLightWindow.activateWindow({href: ‘www.stickmanlabs.com’, title: ”,params: ‘lightwindow_type=external,lightwindow_width=600,lightwindow_height=400′ });”)}
It doesn’t seem to respond to defining ‘class’ but it seems to work ok
thanks to mcj9678 at flashkit.com
Sep 19th 2008
Hi
I test your control and is really nice.
I need to show some documents in IE/Firefox and this is a nice way to show them, however, I have a couple of pdf, excel, word, power-point and visio files that I cannot load in LightWindow. All of these files can been seen in a browser after installing Acrobat Reader and Microsoft viewer applications. Do you think this is possible to implement in LightWindow?
Best regards
Quim
Sep 20th 2008
when using this to show a Quicktime movie, is it possible to specify quicktime parameters, such as kioskmode?
Sep 22nd 2008
Seriously no support on this?? NEED A FAQ or something!
Error: Prototype.Browser.IE’ is null or not an object
Code: 0
Please can anyone help me?
Sep 23rd 2008
hey has anyone tried to open a form lightwindow from javascript?
ive got the javascript lightwindow to work
and obviously from kevins example the form works from a standard href call
but when i combine the two i cant get it to work
any help/experiences would really be appreciated
this is kevins example which works
this doesnt work - HELP!
where
function hitLightWindow() {
var lw = new lightwindow();
lw.activateWindow({
href: ‘form.html’,
title: ”,
width: 485,
height: 580,
left: 262
});
}
Sep 23rd 2008
oops i forgot to unencode the code
here it is - readable:
standard html open - works
javascript call - doesnt work
where js looks like this:
function hitLightWindow() {
var lw = new lightwindow();
lw.activateWindow({
href: ‘form.html’,
title: ”,
width: 485,
height: 580,
left: 262
});
}
Sep 23rd 2008
sorry - let me try that one more time
kevins basic example which works
javascript call to form - does not work
js:
function hitLightWindow() {
var lw = new lightwindow();
lw.activateWindow({
href: ‘form.html’,
title: ”,
width: 485,
height: 580,
left: 262
});
}
Sep 23rd 2008
sorry folks -
i cant get the html code to show up without interpreting
sorry for all the splatter
Sep 24th 2008
Hi all,
I use drupal to call lightwindow, but it not run on IE. I findout it error when call setStyle in lightwindow.js from prototype.js. Please help me, thanks.
Source:
$output .= ‘
‘;
$output .= ‘NEW External Image - An Image pulled from an External Source.
Sep 25th 2008
Hi !
I’m looking for a way to make JS work properly in the window.
My goal is to build a form using Tiny MCE inside the window…
Any ideas ? Lucas’post doesn’t seem to work…
Thanks ;o)
Sep 25th 2008
Has anyone tried mixing Multi_image galleries with single image galleries?
I tried to add a single image after the first multi image and it just ignores the single image.
Any ideas how to fix that?
I see my lightwindow gallery having many single images in my gallery and occasionally having a 2up multi image (possibly a before and after, as mentioned).
TIA
palnudb
Sep 26th 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 29th 2008
palnudb
Thank you for your suggestion, but we have had to abandon LightWindow for the time being. There are just too many issues to resolve and we have to get projects done. If we find any resolution to the issues we listed, we will post again. Too bad the forums don’t work and everyone is floundering. It is a nice component…drag.
Sep 29th 2008
This is awful news, lightwindow is fantastic. It would be a tremendous help if the forums worked. What’s up? Why not working?
Sep 30th 2008
I was wondering has anyone tried a Quicktime VR? I have one in my gallery, but it won’t let me navigate it. Any ideas on a way to make this work? I noticed the QT sample movies all autoplay on load. When you try to navigate with the mouse it assumes you want to go previous and goes back to the image before.
TIA
palnudb
Oct 1st 2008
Hey, it only works if you domain has www. what about subdomains???
Oct 2nd 2008
This is a great tool! Is there an attribute to close the window when a movie finishes playing?
Oct 3rd 2008
hi,
when i use firefox 3.03 and lightwindow the site is loading and loading … will not stop
Oct 3rd 2008
Does the same file work fine in IE or Safari?
if so definitely FF
If not
It does that in all browsers if there is a mistake in the code.
Like you image path is off somehow. Double Check paths and file names.
Did you change any of the lightwindow.js params in the js file? ie true or false?
Hope this helps
palnudb
Oct 3rd 2008
I am trying to get rid of the info above the caption (image count, author) aka div (lightwindow_data_slide) in my galleries.
I removed all references to author in my html obviously it doesn’t display, I have set “showGalleryCount” to false in the js file. how ever I still get the grey box that the data goes into.
Any ideas how to turn this off?
TIA
palnudb
Oct 5th 2008
Hi! Fantastic tool. it really is useful. One question though, I have a .swf file flashpaper in fact that is within a gallery. It appears fine but, the zoom and the controls in the toolbar of flashpaper cannot be clicked because it thinks that i’m clicking on the previous button or the next button. Is there a way around this, a fix?
Thanks again
Oct 6th 2008
I am having a problems with IE 6 and IE 7 showing background images on an included page. The page is being hosted on E-college (an online learning platform) and this is honestly the first problem I am having with it. If anyone can offer up a sugjestion for what maybe the cause of this it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Everyone!
P.S.
The lightwindow does work fine in Firefox 2 and 3
Oct 6th 2008
Hi,
i used this fantastic script to create a form in lightwindow….
but now i need to validate some field of this form…
how can validate it?
Max
Oct 6th 2008
Hey, how do I have multiple images show with the previous/next button, but disable the “Galleries” button down in the corner? thanks, Jeremy
Oct 6th 2008
hi, i use LightWindow v2.0 to load a gallery from flash. it works fine on firefox, chrome and safari bus in IE it sais error “argument not valid” (line 1597, caracter 9).
I tried to enter the forum but it looks like it’s down.
tnxs for the answer
Oct 6th 2008
Jeremy,
Set to true by default its false.
hideGalleryTab : true,
in the Lightwindow.js file
Hope this helps
Anybody who can help me on my questions it would be greatly appreciated.
Oct 7th 2008
Hi.
I noticed that on the samples, that when a link is clicked and it opens up the frame or whatever, the background gets shaded. How do i do that?
Oct 11th 2008
QuickTime compatibility with Firefox 3 is broken on your examples. IE works fine.
Oct 12th 2008
Hi, I am very interested in using LightWindow 2.0 in my thesis project. I am currently upgrading my website and it has lots of media that I think LightWindow will be very useful. However, LightWindow cannot and I stress on cannot show quicktime .mov files on Firefox 3. I have the latest build and latest quicktime 7.5.5 installed.
I went ahead and disabled all my other addons and plug-ins. Could you please fix this issue?
Please mail me back at my email. I tested even the .mov files on LightBox website but all I get is a blank window. The audio is coming through the speakers but the video doesn’t show up.
I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit. I want to use LightBox but i need quicktime support to be across platforms. Safari and IE show the video correctly.
Please could you fix this ?
Oct 14th 2008
Hi,
is it possible to have an overview of the pictures in the gallery a beginning, when the lightwindow open?
br
Alex
Oct 14th 2008
I use this script but i have problems validating his xhtml. params=”lightwindow_type=external” does not validate
Oct 14th 2008
I love this lightwindow. Looks and works great in FF and Safari but can anyone explain why I cant get it to work in IE ?
http://www.mackmangroup.co.uk/testing/new
Bruce
Oct 14th 2008
THIS IS THE IDEAL RESPONSE:
To the OP, “Thank you.”
===========================
I was trying to solve an issue with client’s site that had your lightwindow script installed. It wasn’t working properly with No doctype or transitional docrtype in IE, the window generated was being thrown off the screen. I debugged the code and found the following issue. Not sure if it applies or the behavior was because client made some changes in the script but would still like you to know how I fixed it. Two issues I encountered were
a. Window didn’t calculate viewport height and width properly, with No Doctype or transitional Doctype in IE
b. Position fixed style for lightwindow DIV acted weird in these particular doctype settings
Solution for a.
I modified _browserDimensions : function() to following
_browserDimensions : function() {
if (Prototype.Browser.IE) {
if(document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientHeigh){
this.dimensions.viewport.height = document.documentElement.clientHeight;
this.dimensions.viewport.width = document.documentElement.clientWidth;
}else if(document.body){
this.dimensions.viewport.height = document.body.clientHeight;
this.dimensions.viewport.width = document.body.clientWidth;
}
} else {
this.dimensions.viewport.height = window.innerHeight;
this.dimensions.viewport.width = document.width || document.body.offsetWidth;
}
}
Solution for b.
Changed Fixed position to absolute in script
===========================
This fixed the problem in IE/Internet Explorer.
Oct 15th 2008
Error: Prototype.Browser.IE’ is null or not an object
Code: 0
normal stuff
then it should work ok…
Oct 16th 2008
Hi,
It seems that I cannot call lightwindow from a ajax innerHTML response brought by prototype;
Is there an workaround this?
Oct 16th 2008
Hey stickman
Lightwindow 2 doesn’t seem to display quicktime movies in firefox 3.03. I tried to view from your page and no luck with FF. IE worked. Safari worked. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
ELM
Oct 20th 2008
When I click an link in my lightwindow then the new screen opens up in the lightwindow. Is their an possibility to open the new page in the screen behind it??
Oct 21st 2008
Hiya,
When I adjusted the lightwindow border width
to 1 or 2 pixels rather then the default (5 or 10?) wider one I get 2 problems…
1. the ‘close’ word above the lightwindow is aligned beyond the right edge of the window
(rather then up to the right edge above the window).
2. the lightwindow is offset a bit to the left in the browsers window.
Does anyone know where I can offset the ‘close’ text to the left
and more importantly
offset the lightwindow to the right a few (30?) pixels?
Thanks!!!
motu
Oct 21st 2008
I have a playback problem in FF 3.03…
My lightwindow flash video starts to play for a brief moment then reloads and plays from the beginning…
I don’t have this problem using Safari.
Any help MUCH appreciated!
motu
Oct 21st 2008
if you have a problem with the background, read this article. You have to change to path to your image directory
http://www.datawinconsulting.com/dnn/TechArticles/LightWindowOpacity/tabid/79/Default.aspx
Oct 22nd 2008
[quote]
Hi All
I set up the lightbox to show a clients recent party pics and all works with firefox PC and safari mac but in IE7 on PC I keep getting an intermittent resizing down. When the lightbox opens, instead of resizing to the full size of the image it downsizes to a very small box… I did put in the fix mentioned above but that did not resolve… Any ideas
Gino
[/quote]
Hi,
i am also having this problem and cannot fix it, apparently the answer is on the forum but i cannot access it as it says it is temporarily unavailable, can any one help me with this issue.
regards,
Sam Jones
Oct 22nd 2008
Hi there,
Is it possible to use this script with a body onload?
thnx
Patrick
Oct 23rd 2008
Hey,
I’ve another question. Is it possible to put a google maps in a lightwindow?
Thnx..
Patrick
Oct 23rd 2008
Does anyone know how to have links within ajax requested content load into the same lightbox?
Oct 23rd 2008
Not related to the light window itself, but… On the flash example, how did you do the neat transitions between the images? The ones with the geometric patterns moving across the screen.
Oct 26th 2008
This is so cool. Easy to use and worked beautifully out of the box in IE 6 & 7/Firefox on Windows and Safari/Opera/Firefox on Mac. I’m using it to load external websites for a real estate client. I had width constraints with embedding these sites into their theme and this did the trick! The only problem I’m having with it is displaying .aspx pages. I don’t have any control over the .aspx page so I can’t modify it. I want it to display just like a html or php page, but it isn’t
Tried the iframe trick with no go. Is there a solution to this?
Oct 27th 2008
I’d love if anyone could help! Lightwindow is working great for me except one thing. The opacity of the screen sets correctly, but then, for some reason, if you scroll down, the grey background stops where the visible space of the first page ends. As you scroll down, you see the full page background.
Anyone have any ideas? I’d really really appreciate any help. You can email me at smith3121@gmail.com
Thanks!
Oct 27th 2008
I just won’t use this script as there seems to be too many issues and no support from the author anymore. Sad but true.
Oct 28th 2008
Hi all..
I’ve just added this toa site i’m building.., however,when i load it in I.E, the box, instead of staying central, appears to top left and when colapses,is mostly off the page
Oct 28th 2008
Hi all..
I’ve just added this toa site i’m building.., however,when i load it in I.E, the box, instead of staying central, appears to top left and when colapses,is mostly off the page.
anyone got any idea???
thanks
Oct 28th 2008
I am using lightwindow to display a new simple HTML page. In FF3, the transparent black overlay works fine, but in Safari 3.1.2 there is no overlay. Any thoughts/suggestions? Thanks.
Oct 28th 2008
Hi,
Friends i am having problem in using Lighbox window with IE6.
Can anybody help me to fix script for IE6,
on Firefox it works smoothly.
Thanks,
Oct 29th 2008
Hi,
sorry if this is a well known bug - but the forum is down…
After getting some Windows feedback i testet lightwindow for quicktime and:
Quicktime isn’t working on Windows Firefox 3, Safari 3, Opera 9.6
It works on Mac all Browser and on Win IE 6, IE 7, Google Chrome
regards
Chris
Oct 29th 2008
forgot to mention: it worked with quicktime 7 - problems started with 7.5 update..
Oct 29th 2008
Hi,
I’m having a small issue in IE7.. at first i had an issue in ie6 where the lightwindow would open off screen, and then i applied Sunil Lukose’s solution which fixed the problem, now i’m having an issue in ie7.
The image loads and positions correctly but as soon as the image has finished fading in the window seems to drop behind the light window shaded layer (maybe a z index issue) and also repositioned to the top left of the browser.
HELP!!
Oct 30th 2008
This is a reply to my own post from Sep 12th 2008:
After 1.5 months I finally found the solution to the problem concerning IE7 and I thought somebody might be interested in it … the whole thing was that I had to remove “lightwindow_type=external,lightwindow_loading_animation=false” from the “params” part within the HTML code which - by the way - also seems to be the problem on the LightWindow main page. That’s it! Now IE7 works perfect with the JW FLV Player.
No more sort of “Prototype.Browser.IE’ is null or not an object
Code: 0″ error message or similar.
Hope that is of some help to you. PAUL
Oct 31st 2008
Hello,
Can anyone help with these issues?.
a. My website works perfectly in firefox and safari. But it doesn’t work in IE. There is no pop up box at all. it only goes to the enlarged image. It’s very frustrating. Anyone can offer some fix. I would really appreciate. I have image, flash, external link and pdf
My site: www.meidesign.net
b.Is it anyway I can modify the placement of the close button. And move it down to the bottem right of the light box. I would like to have cleaner look of the lightbox, with description on the bottem left, close button on the bottem right, and then nothing else.
c.I modified the loading speed. However, when I click on the next button, it seems still take a while to go to the next image. I will like it to load a bit faster.
Thank you very much for your help. Happy Halloween everyone! -Amy
Nov 3rd 2008
Hi,
there is somekind of bug in this cool lightwindow ( I didn’t read
Nov 3rd 2008
Hi,
I think there is a bug in this cool lightwindow ( I didn’t read all of the other comments, so in case some report it - sorry).
anyway, (IE7):
1) hit the iniline content example,
2) scroll dwon the lightwindow and close it.
3) click again on the inline content example - the window will resize to the last dimmenssions and not to the initialize size
Nov 4th 2008
hi,
i have a problem with lightwindow in IE 6/7. It open a window, but it will be minimized in the left corner. pls check out and help me
–>> http://www.alexanderpeppel.de/v2/portfolio.html
tks!
br
alex
Nov 4th 2008
Hi,
I just found this site and Lightbox. It looks fantastic. One question, though. Is there a way
to execute a lightbox on exit, possible using javascript? My idea is to use it as an exit pop kind of, presenting a video on exit.
I tried using myLightWindow.activateWindow, but it didn’t bring up anything. any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Nov 6th 2008
Is it possible to resize and re-align lightwindow automaticaly after scaling your browserwindow?
thanx in advance!
Nov 6th 2008
I built this little site for my son’s football team. Problem is if you flip through the gallery in IE 6 or IE 7, the images become distorted whenever you view the image after the 1st time. Yes, you see it for the first time and from there on when you view it it’s distorted. It works fine in Safari, Chrome and Firefox under Windows, and works fine in Safari, Firefox, Camino, and Opera in Mac OS. I’m not sure if it’s something I did or if it’s a mess up in lightwindow. If anyone can take a look and recommend something, I would greatly appreciate it. When you visit http://chargers.endriagotech.com, go to Lions game on October 25 and then Game Day Pictures. Go to next image and then go back to the first image. You’ll see what I mean.
PS Sorry for posting here. I tried the forum but it wasn’t working.
Nov 7th 2008
hello
it seems that the forums are down some days now
is the project dead
i would like to use lightwindow commercially and
donate some bucks but is there any support!
It seems that new IE8 has some problems with the code
so if there is support and the possibility to fix then
i will go ahead otherwise…
thanks ioannis
Nov 10th 2008
Ok, so it might be lightwindow somewhat. It’s not lightwindow’s fault entirely, but looks like it isn’t catching IE’s jpeg resize problem and accomodating for it. I’m using NextGen Gallery in WordPress, and chose Custom effect and used class=”lighwindow” so the galleries would look the same as other places I implemented lightwindow (like opening external pages). I switched the effect to Thickbox (default effect), and the jpeg images display fine. Looks like the animation of making a lightwindow is doing it, as Thichbox doesn’t do any animations, it just opens.
Nov 11th 2008
Okay, that might seem like I am not that happy with the whole situation … but to be perfectly honest: That is just the way it is.
Yesterday I tried to tell those who read this about “another” Lightbox sort of thing only because even if you like to you do not get any more support for the original Stickmanlabs Lightbox and development is discontinued - as the offline forum demonstrates.
But obviously there must still be somebody taking care at Stickmanlabs since one of them having admin rights simply deleted what I wrote! Nevertheless this is NOT the kind of statement any of us was waiting for.
So please, could somebody in charge of this tell if there is ever an all new “Lightwindow 3.0″ with (paid) support, forum and everything else or not? Thank you.
PAUL
Nov 17th 2008
Hiya. This is a wonderful product. However, I found what looks like a bug. Not sure… but when I changed one line of code, it fixed my problems…
In the _loadWindow procedure, in the inline case, on the line that looks like
content = content.substring(0, content.indexOf(’?'));
I think you may have wanted this instead…
content = content.substring(content.indexOf(’?'));
Maybe I’m just using it wrong, but at least for me, if you have other query parameters, the # mark gets lost when it substrings out everything after the ? mark… and so the window doesn’t load.
Nov 17th 2008
I was having some resize problems with the background overlay because my pages fiddle with the DOM after the page is loaded. One project i’m doing uses AJAX to load lists and create a table which changes the page height/width after the lightwindow is already initialized.
This is easily overcome by creating a new lightwindow every time; i.e. myLightWindow = new lightwindow(); … myLightWindow.activateWindow()….
However that isn’t smart programming and can be memory intensive. A simple mod to the lightwindow.js code fixes the background overlay size issues.
1st: in the [activateWindow : function] add [this._getPageDimensions();] after _getScroll() in the //Setup everything section.
2nd: in the [_displayLightWindow : function] add two lines:
[$(’lightwindow_overlay’).style.width = this.pageDimensions.width+’px’;]
[$(’lightwindow_overlay’).style.height = this.pageDimensions.height+’px’;]
These three lines of code will make sure the background overlay is sized to the current page height/width every time it is activated. This will also fix a couple bugs that happen when the browser window is resized (or a sidebar, i.e. bookmarks/history, is opened/closed).
Tested in current FF and IE 7.
Nov 18th 2008
how do you configure lightwindow to parse stuff like this view/1 where 1 is the record id . normally we can use something like view?id=1 .
Nov 21st 2008
hey pete, make you connection to your DB and do a ‘for’ loop like below:
“class=”lightwindow hidden” rel=”Your Gallery[2008]” title=”" caption=”" author=”">Execute(); ?>” border=”0″ />
This should at least get you thinking! I used this code for the lightwindow from this site.
any more questions, just ask!
Dee
Nov 21st 2008
Sorry here is my code, damn html renderer:
”
“class=”lightwindow hidden” rel=”Gallery[2008]” title=”" caption=”" author=”">Execute(); ?>” border=”0″ />
”
Dee
Nov 21st 2008
shit, just email me at me@addictivepixel.com
Nov 25th 2008
hi can you help me
i want code jaca call image gelery
Nov 25th 2008
Do form elements have to be in unordered lists in order to display correctly? I tried using a table and the text rows are condenced to where they are unreadable.
Nov 28th 2008
Hi,I’m searching for a tutorial that teaching me how I can recall a gallery lightwindow 2.0 from a flash file (swf).Can you help me?
Dec 1st 2008
Code to show a lightwindow automatically on page load:
instantiate=setInterval( ‘instantiate_myLightWindow()’, 500 );
function instantiate_myLightWindow() {
if (myLightWindow!=null) {
clearInterval(instantiate);
myLightWindow.activateWindow({
href: ‘my_image.jpg’,
title: ‘Image Title’
});
Just place the script anywhere on the page and it will work.
Dec 1st 2008
Code to instantiate one link from the page automatically:
instantiate=setInterval( ‘instantiate_myLightWindow()’, 500 );
nr_bannere=2;
function instantiate_myLightWindow() {
if (myLightWindow!=null) {
clearInterval(instantiate);
myLightWindow.activate(null,$(”my_link_id”));
}
}
Dec 2nd 2008
We found an error at work (www.steamshift.com) when submitting a form into a lightwindow (by changing the target of the form once the lightwindow had opened) and had to change lightwindow .js to fix it.
The problem was in IE where you apparently can’t set the name of an iframe when creating elements in the same way as other browsers..
I blogged the fix here… http://chadanuk.co.uk/index.php/blog/4. POssibly needs changing in a later release?
Dec 2nd 2008
Question I’m trying to link to a bookmark inside a PDF:
pdffile.pdf#nameddest=page1 Lightwindow wont render this.
Also I tried to link to an external page with an anchor tag:
www.page.htm#link4
It initially loads the anchor then jumps to the top of the linked page.
Any thoughts on this? I cant find anyone who has had a similar issue.
Hopefully you still check this forum?
Dec 3rd 2008
How can I start lightwindow when I load a web page? I need it to show a page with some text. on click function works fine, but how to start it on page load.
Help please.
Thanks in advance
Dec 8th 2008
This is great work Kevin! I wanted to see how complex it would be to add a second gallery like tab to lightwindows. This would be useful for displaying thumbnails instead of only the titles of each gallery. The way it is now is great but there is no way for a user to jump to the middle of a gallery to find a specific image right away, say the second time they visit the site. I want to give them a second option of viewing thumbnail previews from any lightwindow and jumpung right to an image. Any suggestions?
I am currently going through your code to see what creates the gallery tab as it is to see if a second could be created but I don’t think it could because the links to other galleries are created using the rel attribute and could not hold an image that way, right? Thanks!
Dec 11th 2008
Hi first of all Lightwindow is agreat Tool.
I create my Online Portfolio with Lightwindow, but i have a Problem.
In IE it works great but in Firefox and Safari i cant pick my thumbnails to activate the Lightbox effect.
Please can anyone give me a tip how can i fix this Problem.
my Website is www.cengil.com
thanks
Dec 13th 2008
Hey. Yes, Lightwindow is an incredible tool, thanks so much. I would really like to donate but it seems that the link doesn’t work on your page?? THANKS!
Dec 17th 2008
Hello,
I really dig this program. I am new to it and am having some trouble with adding it to a website I am building. I am not quite understanding the process to incorporate the program into the site. Is there a more detailed “How to..” link that can help. I looked over the Ho to on the LightWindow site and have gone threw some of the process, but an not getting how to add the thumbnails to call up the lightWindow. please help, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Tony
Dec 20th 2008
Hi All,
I am a novice trying to make this cool thing work. Can someone look at my website and see if I am doing something wrong:
http://psychology.okstate.edu/faculty/leffingwell/test_resources.html
Only the first adobe link is supposed to open in lightbox, and I changed it to link to a simple image file to see if I could even get that to work.
Lightbox demo html file works fine when placed in same directory, so I don’t think it is a server issue?
Thanks so much, Thad (thad.leffingwell@okstate.edu)
Dec 25th 2008
I’ve just downloaded the “LightWindow v2.0″. Thanks you for this.
Dec 28th 2008
With a large picture (for example: 1024×768) Lightwindow also the only show sizes in the frame content, not the browser displays the size that when enlarge pictures.
Dec 28th 2008
Hello guyz need help with wmv files cannt get it work with wmv files.
Dec 30th 2008
I tried this but there are some issues:
- Not working with Fire Fow 2.0.0.18
- It works fine on my local machine but as soon as I placed it on my website eFirmSolutions.com, it is making the text too small to read in IE 7.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Jan 2nd 2009
I’m having a problem related to the fact that I’m already using prototype version 1.6.0.2 on my website. Are there plans to upgrade lightwindow to use the current version of prototype?
Jan 5th 2009
Hi to all.
I have this link:
it opens a lightWindow. I’ve put a close link inside my lightWindow following the example from documentation. It looks like this:
but it’s not working.
can someone help me with this please?
Jan 6th 2009
Does anyone know how to close the lightWindow if the params=”lightwindow_type=external”. I want to use a link to close the lightWindow from the external file.
I’ve searched in Demos section (NEW Page Treated as External - This page is local to this domain but is placed in an iframe) and it’s not working ether.
Thanks
Jan 6th 2009
Hi, This is probably an easy fix for someone knowledgeable about lightwindows. I can’t seem to get the images to display properly in IE 7 (works fine in firefox). I tried making the images smaller as well as setting image params. It seems to skew the image width. Any ideas? site: http://www.unstruct1.com/digitalresume/
Jan 7th 2009
Hi, Im loading an AS3 app on top of an AS2 app using lightwindow an it works sweet .. but how could I keep the contents of the lightwindow (the lightwindow itsefl) centered when I resize the browser? I guess it should be easy but I seem to be unable to find anything on this topic .. cna anyone help me on this?
Jan 7th 2009
Hi
I am using LightWindow. It is a great script. But I am having trouble using it with text genereted in TinyMCE!
Here is a sample of what TinyMCE produces.
Igen i år afholdes en match mod Esbjerg Golfklubs Erhvervsklub den fredag den 26. september 2008 på hjemmebane. Derfor søges 36 engagerede og kamplystne golfspillere til deltagelse i denne match, der spilles i følgende format: Hulspil med 6 Foursomes 6 Fourball best ball 12 singel matcher Der udpeges en holdkaptajn, der sammensætter holdet. Der kan deltage max. 36 spillere og tilmeldningen foregår efter først til mølle princippet. Der vil blive arrangeret frokost/spisning efter matchen og udgiften hertil vil være ca. 125 kr, som er egenbetaling. Greenfee-betaling dækkes af Breinholtgård Erhvervsklub. Har du lyst til at deltage i denne forrygende match, der gerne skal blive en årlig tradition, skal du sende en mail til golf@breinholtgaarderhvervsklub.dk hurtigst muligt og senest 25.august Claus Jessen
Maybe you have experienced the same problem.
The problem is that LightWindow just outputting everything in one window.!!
All text is loaded from MySQL
Jan 7th 2009
Scott… what was your problem that the code fixed. Might be helpful !
Jan 7th 2009
Problems in IE8…
Images are getting resized/shifted in window… and after a window is opened one time… then closed, if you try to open another window it appears in the uppermost left corner of the browser so you have to either hit back or close out of the browser and open it again.
I’m also willing to pay because it’s awesome.
Jan 8th 2009
Just wanted to comment again on IE8. Given that IE8 is still in beta, and it’s a piece of shit… I guess it really doesn’t matter!
It was a real pain in the ass to remove & I’m crossing my fingers my comp is gonna make it!
Only problem I ran into in IE7 was a bit of image shrinkage when opening a jpg. Will read the discussions to see about an answer.
Jan 19th 2009
Hi I am having the same problem with IE7. The window keeps randomly resizing down to small square….
I have tried to reach the forum for an answer but it is not working..
Please help!!! I realy like this script but IE7 is important.
Jan 19th 2009
Looks great, however I’ve been testing it on many browser and operating systems and I’ve seen a few problems. Main issues with IE8 some of the options open in the top left corner???
Jan 20th 2009
HI, I woul like to know how to link a thumnail (instead of text) to open
Lightbox. Thank you for your help!
Jan 21st 2009
Is it possible to change the color of the image holder from white to another color? than you
Jan 26th 2009
Hi first of all lightwindow is really awsome.
I implement the Lightwindow in my Website.
So my Question is is it possible to make a Gallery with the Prev and next button like in the Gallery example but without the Gallery Overview wich is in the right corner where you can click on it.
thanks
Jan 26th 2009
coulde we download it by free. If so could you give me link? thanks again
Jan 28th 2009
Hi Claudia,
To play with the colors go to your css/lightwindow.css and find the lines where I put “/*ORIGINAL VALUE: #etc…*/”lines, in my case I set all to black (#000000).
Hope this help you!
Best regards from Mexico!
#lightwindow_contents {
overflow: hidden;
z-index: 0;
position: relative;
border: 10px solid #000000; /*ORIGINAL VALUE: #ffffff*/
background-color: #000000; /*ORIGINAL VALUE: #ffffff*/
}
#lightwindow_loading {
/* REQUIRED */
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
z-index: 9999;
position: absolute;
/* REQUIRED */
background-color: #000000; /*ORIGINAL VALUE: #f0f0f0*/
padding: 10px;
}
#lightwindow_data_slide_inner {
background-color: #000000; /*ORIGINAL VALUE: #ffffff*/
padding: 0 10px 10px 10px;
}
#lightwindow_data_caption {
padding: 10px 0 0 0;
color: #666666;
line-height: 25px;
background-color: #000000; /*ORIGINAL VALUE: #ffffff*/
clear: both;
}
#lightwindow_data_details {
background-color: #000000; /*ORIGINAL VALUE: #f0f0f0*/
padding: 0 10px 0 10px;
height: 20px;
}
Feb 3rd 2009
very,very,very,very,very,very,very,very, nice work!!!!!!
this LigthWindowV2 is spectacular!!!
keep up the good work!!!!
congratulations!!!!
Feb 4th 2009
This isn’t the most elegant of solutions to a problem but, until I have the time to dig into the code more, here you go:
This is a solution for those, like me, who are experiencing an issue with the background overlay not extending all the way to the bottom of the page when your lightwindow images are further down the page. In the lightwindow.css file change the height value for #lightwindow_overlay from this:
height:100px;
to this
height: 3000px !important;
This locks the overlay background to a specific height instead of it being dynamically determined by the lightwindow.js. Be careful about the value that you place there (if the 3000px doesn’t cover your page) as I saw some issues with the lightwindow itself when I had set it to 5000px.
This may give me some insight into how to set this value dynamically. If I come up with anything, I’ll post it here.
Feb 9th 2009
Hi. Can i ask a question?
When user click a link in an iframe, the whole iframe will disappear and then the lightwindow only show up. If i wan the iframe maintain there, how to set it ya?
thanks~~
Feb 10th 2009
I’m wondering if anyone ever had any success getting LightWindow to work with AJAX pages? I saw a previous post about reinitializing myLightWindow on AJAX call, but this causes undesired results - i.e. if you have multiple images and scroll through them, it appears that there are two lightWindows present. Quite an annoying bug.
If anyone’s gotten through this I’d appreciate the info.
Thanks.
Rob
Feb 16th 2009
hello, how to lock the clickable area outer lightwindow ? And force user to click the close button instead. Specially for form usage by example : like login and password.
Feb 16th 2009
What about posting a form on a page and having the results show up in a lightbox? I tried this using the demo for the lightbox showing external pages and submitting the form via javascript but it didn’t work.
Feb 18th 2009
Hey everybody, I was trying to figure out why the overlay wouldn’t appear after scrolling down the page and would only stick to the top of the page and after hours of debugging and comparison with Facebox codes, I found that the Lightwindow css file contains the #lightwindow_overlay div that’s written:
#lightwindow_overlay {
/* REQUIRED */
display: none;
visibility: hidden;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
z-index: 500;
/* REQUIRED */
}
which should have been:
#lightwindow_overlay {
/* REQUIRED */
display: none;
visibility: hidden;
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
z-index: 500;
/* REQUIRED */
}
Couldn’t find any complaints on this issue yet, hope it helps!
Feb 18th 2009
Hi.
Congratulations on making LightWindow.
I’m trying to get a flsh presentation to open from a link like the demo. This works fine. The problem is that I need to have the “base” parameter specifyed in order for flash to know where to get additional data from.
How can I set the “base” paramerter?
I tried making a page to show the flash but it does not look right when LightWindow animates, and the flash is refreshed once Lightwindow resizes.
/Jonathan
Ps. I could not get into the forums.
Feb 26th 2009
AJAX call solution to use a lightwindow from the content fetched from the AJAX call: http://www.ramonfincken.com/permalink/topic129.html
Mar 3rd 2009
I have a bug with LightWindow v2.0 because prototype.js has conflict with jquery.js library v1.3.2 of my site or my blog … and not work.
Suggestion ???
Mar 7th 2009
hey.
i have been trying to install this plugin but everytime i install it i try to activate it i get an error…
Warning: main(/home/23718/domains/blog.puneetrakheja.com/html/wp-content/plugins/lightwindow/) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Success in /home/23718/domains/blog.puneetrakheja.com/html/wp-settings.php on line 473
Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/23718/domains/blog.puneetrakheja.com/html/wp-content/plugins/lightwindow/’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php-4.4.8-1/share/pear’) in /home/23718/domains/blog.puneetrakheja.com/html/wp-settings.php on line 473
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/23718/domains/blog.puneetrakheja.com/html/wp-settings.php:473) in /home/23718/domains/blog.puneetrakheja.com/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/23718/domains/blog.puneetrakheja.com/html/wp-settings.php:473) in /home/23718/domains/blog.puneetrakheja.com/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850
am not sure what this means .
please let me know if you any advice or suggestion!!
i have used ur plugin on my server once but had to delete that for some reason and now i cannot seem to make it work !
Mar 7th 2009
I think i made it work . it seems to be an issue with PHP version. i think.
Mar 12th 2009
In case anyone else has noticed this bug…
Lightwindow in IE 6/7 will not correctly resize photos if the viewport’s dimensions are smaller than the photo dimensions. The photos will appear distorted and will be missing part of the image on the right and bottom sides.
The fix is simple, find the following code around line 1300 in lightwindow.js:
$(’lightwindow_image_’+i).setStyle({
height: ‘100%’,
});
and change it to:
$(’lightwindow_image_’+i).setStyle({
height: ‘100%’,
width: ‘100%’
});
Hope this helps! –Stu
Mar 12th 2009
René Paul
“I have a bug with LightWindow v2.0 because prototype.js has conflict with jquery.js library v1.3.2 of my site or my blog … and not work.”
—
http://docs.jquery.com/Using_jQuery_with_Other_Libraries
Mar 13th 2009
Anyone know how to hook callbacks into lightwindow.js?
the problem is that in IE it’s taking about 3-4 seconds from click to lightwindow popup (this is because IE is waiting to load the entire picture to avoid the tiny photo bug discussed here and elsewhere.)
I’d like to activate a spinner on the lightwindow div click, then hide the spinner when the lightwindow appears or hide it when the lightwindow is closed.
I’ve managed to reveal the spinner on click but can’t get it to hide on close, any ideas?
Mar 17th 2009
Hello
I spotted a bug when viewing youtube content with lightwindow v 2.0 with safari for PC version 4.
The youtube video appears to load but only a white background is shown.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Great work!
Mar 18th 2009
God, please fix all the problems with Internet Explorer, after researching, i have fixed some of them, but now, lightwindow open off the screen in IE 6 & 7, but in firefox it opens very well.
From Dominican Republic
Mar 18th 2009
OH, i forgot, thanks for the script
Mar 19th 2009
I am able to use Lightwindow to vie w.FLV file … I am using an FLV component for CS3 … this seems to work well.
BUT … I can not get the loading animation and the black (Opaque) background to show.
Anybody having the same problem???
Mar 22nd 2009
Great Script.
However, I am not getting the desired effect. What am I doing wrong? Can someone help me?
The webpage is:
http://www.daves-computer-service.com/Projects/guitarlessons/version3/index_5.php
When I click on the TEST link, I am not getting the effects that are shown in the example.
Please Help!
Dave C
Mar 25th 2009
I believe I have a simple fix for the IE8 “null” issue where null is displayed in the caption and the author when no entry is made (Lines 1415-1431):
// Set up the data-slide if we have caption information
if (this.element.caption && this.element.caption != 'null' || this.element.author && this.element.author != 'null' || (this.activeGallery && this.options.showGalleryCount)) {
if (this.element.caption && this.element.caption != 'null') {
$('lightwindow_data_caption').innerHTML = this.element.caption;
$('lightwindow_data_caption').setStyle({
display: 'block'
});
} else {
$('lightwindow_data_caption').setStyle({
display: 'none'
});
}
if (this.element.author && this.element.author != 'null') {
$('lightwindow_data_author').innerHTML = this.element.author;
$('lightwindow_data_author_container').setStyle({
display: 'block'
});
Mar 27th 2009
Hi!
Great script! Anyway is the most complete jquery gallery! But I have a little question if I wanted to print just the content of the lightwindow how should I do that? Is there a given solution or I should write a different stylesheet for printing?
Mar 29th 2009
how can i make the window auto open when the page loads? for example i want to show a splash page?
Mar 29th 2009
i want to make it pop up automatically as soon as the page loads, could you please help???
Mar 31st 2009
I second the question from madalina, l have recently been using lightwindow to display inline content. I get varied and inconsistent results from trying to print just the content of my lightwindow. Using a print stylesheet l can isolate the content for printing in everything aside from IE7, but in the cases which work, the content is positioned inconsistently. Is there anyone who can shed some light on a fool-proof way (if there is any such thing) to print from lightWindow?
Thanks
Cosmo
Apr 1st 2009
Hi all,
I have put online some much needed and robust community support forums for LightWindow 2.0. I think as a community, we need this - and it’s going to help in keeping all the questions/fixes/suggestions in one place on a decent forum.
I know Kevin is currently busy in working on the new release of LightWindow, and so, something to look forward to.
You can visit the new “unofficial” forums over at www.lightwindow.org.
Thanks,
Chris
Apr 8th 2009
I tried to use LightWindow plug-in with this theme (http://themes.livingos.com/2008/03/04/livingos-upsilon/). The slide show from this theme is not working when I activate the plug-in. The plug-in is working perfect but is canceling the slide show from the top of this theme. I need both. Please help me,is there anything I can do?
Thank you! If you can send me a message on email will be perfect.
Apr 11th 2009
Hi!
Your “donate” button does not react on the LightWindow site!
(Firefox 3.08)
Apr 14th 2009
that is really great
thnx
Apr 16th 2009
I can’t seem to load a SWF into LightWindow using SWFObject.
Has anyone been able to use LightWindow and SWFObject? Any sample code?
Also, it appears the forums are down. I tried yesterday and today!
Thanks!
Chris Simepone
Apr 16th 2009
Great Work Kevin
But I’ve a problem : excuse me but I don’t understand how I can use lightbox v2 with embedded videos like yuotube.
Can you help me please ?
Greets from Italy
Apr 23rd 2009
Sunil Lukose,
You are a genius.
Truly saved this project.
THANK YOU.
Apr 26th 2009
Thank you very much, Sunil Lukose.
The hack worked for me in IE, the result is strange in my CMS but workable.
Well done!
Apr 27th 2009
Hi,
Im trying to use the iframe thing. It works fine (btw, great script :D) but i want the iframe for an image gallery. To show iindividual images it works well but to use them as a gallery it gives an error: this.galleries[gallery[0]] is undefined
How do i solve this?
Tks.
May 4th 2009
Para validar la página en W3C dice que el tag no permite el uso de “params” a lo cual hay que pasarle los parámetros de otra forma.
Es por eso que realicé lo siguiente:
En el archivo lightwindow.js puse al inicio para pasarle los valores de params como global:
var params;
function paramst(valor){
params = valor;
}
Reemplazar donde dice “element.getAttribute(’params’)” y “this.element.params” por “params”.
Luego en el tag en vez de params=’atributos’ poner onmousedown=’javascript:paramst(”atributos”)’
De esta manera el w3c admite el tag correctamente y por otro lado el javascript funciona.
May 6th 2009
You have a wonderful product and I would like to make a donation for yor efforts. Could you advise me in regards to how to get the ‘Rel’ tag to be rendered in the Gallery with Multiple Images called through a Javascript Call. My company website is a ASP.NET XHTML 1.0 Transitional site and ‘Rel’ has be deprecated according to W3C. Visual Studio always throws errors on the build. I have tried editing line 443 & 1157 as found in the only resource I could find after endlessly searching the internet for patch or edits. The suggestions are at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41928?sort=newest#sort-top
I am just a Barber, but I would still like to make a donation for your advice on the fix. This is the last piece before I deploy the site. Thanks Stickman!
May 6th 2009
You have a wonderful product and I would like to make a donation for yor efforts. Could you advise me in regards to how to get the ‘Rel’ tag to be rendered in the Gallery with Multiple Images called through a Javascript Call. I have to use the Javascript call for thats the only way the ‘Caption’ & ‘Author’ work. My company website is a ASP.NET XHTML 1.0 Transitional site and ‘Rel’ has be deprecated according to W3C. Visual Studio always throws errors on the build. I have tried editing line 443 & 1157 as found in the only resource I could find after endlessly searching the internet for patch or edits. The suggestions are at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41928?sort=newest#sort-top
I am just a Barber, but I would still like to make a donation for your advice on the fix. This is the last piece before I deploy the site. Thanks Stickman!
May 9th 2009
Hello. The ligthwindow is a great tool. I’m using and I have a request about prev - next button. I need the navigation buttons are always displayed on the images. Is this possible? Thanks
May 10th 2009
When I use Opera the overlay only covers the visible screen, if I scroll down the overlay is not there. I have only run into this problem in Opera. Please advise
May 12th 2009
As Nick mentioned above - I am having the same issue in IE and Google Chrome - the overlay is only covering what was visible on page load, once you scroll the overlay is cut off prematurely instead of covering the whole page.
However my issue is somewhat unique in that my page size dynamically sizes after the initial page load as a result of using the Accordion script. I figure if the overlay can center itself based on browser viewport, just like the Lightwindow itself then this problem can be solved.
Any ideas are greatly appreciated
May 14th 2009
Is it possible to open some window with in the lightwindow.
May 21st 2009
hi, Lucas
jsus look in to the lightwindow.css and find the following codes.
—————————————————————————————–
#lightwindow_previous {
float: left;
left: 0px;
}
#lightwindow_next {
float: right;
right: 0px;
}
#lightwindow_previous:hover,
#lightwindow_previous:active {
background: url(../images/prevlabel.gif) left 15% no-repeat;
}
#lightwindow_next:hover,
#lightwindow_next:active {
background: url(../images/nextlabel.gif) right 15% no-repeat;
}
—————————————————————————————–
then add 2 lines, and comment out or delete redundancy codes like this.
—————————————————————————————–
#lightwindow_previous {
float: left;
left: 0px;
background: url(../images/prevlabel.gif) left 15% no-repeat; /*Add this*/
}
#lightwindow_next {
float: right;
right: 0px;
background: url(../images/nextlabel.gif) right 15% no-repeat; /*Add this*/
}
/*
#lightwindow_previous:hover,
#lightwindow_previous:active {
background: url(../images/prevlabel.gif) left 15% no-repeat;
}
#lightwindow_next:hover,
#lightwindow_next:active {
background: url(../images/nextlabel.gif) right 15% no-repeat;
}
*/
May 24th 2009
Hi Kevin,
Great script. I’ve been trying to get your script to work with a flash app (pageflip) but I’m having trouble passing the parameters to the flash.
I now call the flash as:
Sample Book
To view the book, you need the latest Flash player.
var so = new SWFObject(”swf/book.swf”, “book”, “1000″, “600″, “8″, “#EEEEEE”);
so.addVariable(”xmlFile”,”xml/pages.xml”);
so.write(”flashcontent”);
but how can I put this in the href for the lightbox and still pass on the variables?
Many thanks in advance!
Richard
May 26th 2009
I had a problem that caused the background to not fade out when the url was in a subdirectory.
The solution:
In lightwindow.js, line 157, I added a slash at the beginning of the address to make it an absolute directory, not relative to the directory of the page I am viewing
May 26th 2009
Question: is it possible to close a LightWindow iframe from within the iframe?
May 27th 2009
i have some js on my page that expands certain sections, although the lightwindow doesn’t detect this and therefore the lightwindow_overlay does not display the full screen. check it;
http://dombeckford.co.uk/motion.html
open all of the sections and choose the last one.
any help?
May 28th 2009
How do I “black out” the screen when the lightwindow opens? The default setup I downloaded does NOT fade the background out like it does on the http://stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow website.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Rich
May 29th 2009
Can you animate “out” on close? If so, how?
Thanks!
Rich
May 31st 2009
I just have to give major props for this script.
I was searching on google for a lightbox to incorporate photos, youtube, and flickr.
The capabilities of LightWindow allow me to not only embed those, but pretty much anything else I could possibly want.
Using LightWindow on my newly custom coded blog has really made things much easier.
I will be sending a donation your way.
Thanks for your hard work on developing this.
Jun 2nd 2009
Hi, I am using lightwindow for my Blogger page, and had it up working fine with the javascript, css, and image files being hosted at blackapplehost.com, but then one night I noticed none of my lightwindows were working. When I mouseover a link the address linked to shows in the lower left corner of my browser, but when I click on it instead of the html page loading in a lighwindow nothing happens. Something is going on because without the class=”lightwindow” property added to my tag clicking on the link opens a new tab loading that html page, but including class=”lightwindow” stops that from happening. Lightbox is still working and I have made no changes to my pages html/css or to the lightwindow .js/.css files… any suggestions out there?
Jun 4th 2009
Please
I have a litle IFRAME on the webpage, but whem i call Lightwindow, it’s open on this Iframe, not in the entire page. How can i solve this?
THanks Bye
Jun 9th 2009
Hi There,
The ligthwindow is a cool tool. I’m using a form for login authentication. Everything works fine on most mainstream browsers I have tested, but on ie6/7, the lightwindow form doesn’t render in the default location, center. Has anyone ran into this issue before me?
I tried the forum to see if anyone had the same issue but the forum is down at this moment.
I have already spent more than enough time on this, trying to tweak the css positioning to trick ie to no avail (but if the download files have everything, I shouldn’t make any changes for the default to work, because the demo on the lightwindow sight works with ie), and any help before I completely give up on it is greatly appreciated.
-Sam
Jun 9th 2009
I was wondering if I am linking to another page inside the lightwindow, why doesnt the lightwindow resize, or how can I achieve that?
Jun 15th 2009
When I open a lightwindow iframe, the current window blacks out, but when I navigate the window sideways, the parts of the screen on the side are not blacked-out.
Jun 17th 2009
Hi
great work, thanks a million!
I think a really good thing (besides all the brilliant features) are the not-too-fancy but still really good & smooth looking controls: nice to use and they go with almost any layout (which unfortunately isn’t too common and makes me as a designer very happy).
One question, though: Is anyone else experiencing any of these (weird) problems or is it just us having f***ed the thing up:
- When clicking through an image gallery, the images are sometimes displayed far to small (thumbnail size, actually) and/or with wrong aspect ratio (supposedly happening after clicking around for a while, people using IE (Version 7.0.5730.13CO) on Windows (version I don’z know) have told me so. Another IE verson they used seems to have shown the same problem.
I cannot reproduce this error, neither on any of my Mac Browsers (see below for details) nor on any Windows IE version I tried.
- A thin 1 px line appearing next to or below the image’s background area (it looks as if some of the background is missing or transparent, therefore the outline): seen both on my Safari 3.2.3 (5525.28.3) and Firefox (3.0.11) on Mac (OS X 10.5.7); as well as on someone’s IE PC (sorry, couldn’t find out the exact version they were using).
Anyone experiencing similar problems:
please let me know, would help a lot!!!
thanks
Fran
Jun 22nd 2009
I’m trying to get LightWindow 2.0 working in a Joomla 1.5 site. I want to open a page in LightWindow from a Flash movie. It’s working in Firefox 3 now, but I’m having a problem with IE7.
The page shows correctly (no javascript errors), but when I click the button in my flash movie, I’m getting an error, saying ‘Expected identifier, string or number’. Script debugging is turned on in IE, but I can’t find the exact location of the error, because there are more scripts being loaded into the page.
This is the actionscript (as3) code for opening the page:
function loadLightBox(){
navigateToURL(new URLRequest(”javascript: myLightWindow.activateWindow({href: ‘testpage.html’, class: ‘lightwindow’, params: ‘lightwindow_type=external,lightwindow_width=500,lightwindow_height=325′})”), “_self”);
};
Does anyone have an idea what could be going wrong here?
Jun 26th 2009
Hi,
I noticed an error shows up in firebug in FF3
“Permission denied to get property XULElement.accessibleType
if(typeof(window.pageYOffset) == ‘number’) {”
lightwindow.js (line 688)
and
“Return value is undefined” code: “1013
$(’lightwindow_media_primary’).Stop();”
lightwindow.js (line 568)
is there a way to get around this?
Jun 29th 2009
Is there a way to play FLV ????
Jul 1st 2009
I need to pass a base parameter to object tag. so that my swf file will get data from there. So how can i set that.