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.