BackBox Image Viewer

star57 · Post by **star57** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:53 pm

BackBox Image Viewer:

Script Site: http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/backbox/

Developer: Rupert Olson

WWB Extension: STAR57 Free for any use!

Yet another Lightbox Image Viewer, I created this just for training myself on the extension.

Description: BackBox is a new image gallery script which displays your pictures in a smooth and easy way. It works on the same principle as "Lightbox.js", though it supports the ability to dismiss the enlarged image when the user clicks the browser "back" button, instead of the default action of going to the previous page. The interface also adds explicit "pervious" and "next" links.

Details: You can have as many Thumbnails on the page as you like, in testing the extension I had 10 thumbnails and 20 photos in each thumbnail and it worked in Microsoft Ie, Firefox, Chrome and Safari!
The Gallery has a function for URL Linking, this does not work of course.

Demo:
http://www.star57.com/extensions/backbox

File and Readme:
Http://www.star57.com/extensions/backbo ... Veiwer.zip

IE7 Or Above Fixed IE 6 Png Fix Update 7:20 pm USA Central: Redownload to latest version!!!

***Update** Paragraph extends lightbox, so on use one line in description
Confirmed in Chrome, Safari and Firefox

me.prosenjeet · Post by **me.prosenjeet** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:15 pm

Looks great!! I like the auto play part

star57 · Post by **star57** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:52 pm

me.prosenjeet wrote:Looks great!! I like the auto play part

Made it just learning, Hopefully I will get better in time!

me.prosenjeet · Post by **me.prosenjeet** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:10 pm

Sure you will...rather, you are !!!

iamafireman · Post by **iamafireman** » Mon May 11, 2009 2:27 am

nice work star, any chance of making an option to autostart and to set the speed

star57 · Post by **star57** » Mon May 11, 2009 10:57 am

iamafireman2 wrote:nice work star, any chance of making an option to autostart and to set the speed

I will look into it and see, thanks

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:30 pm

Hi star57, this is the perfect solution for a web site I am making changes to. The site needs a for sale page where only one photo is on show but allows more photos once you click on it. The slide show is the icing on the cake but

it seems I can only have it in the page once or the photos appear from the other BackBox show. Is there a way round this. I did notice location in the URL, is that a clue.
Example http://www.schryver-restoration.com/test/

Regards

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:45 am

Can anybody help, I need to only show 1 photo on the main page and multiple like BackBox does. Problem is photo 1 shows 1 of 10 when there is only 5 photos photo 2 shows 6 of 10. Please help.

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:08 am

Ok what I believe is happening it that the extension cant define that you need more than one set of images ie "Gallery1 1to10" "Gallery2 1to5" etc it just sees all the images as one Gallery and thats why it outputs 1to15 instead of 1to10 1to5 etc I dont know if there is a work around for this you may need to get a reply from Star about this he may have a solution I did try the extension and I get the same as you did sorry I cant help further....

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:01 pm

Hi BaconFries, thanks for testing, it would make a great extension if you could have more than one set of photos. Do you know of any other extension that can do it. This site seems to have it sorted.
http://www.lauramurphydesign.co.uk/inte ... folio.html
I am trying to set up a for sale page with this type of look.

Regards Dan

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:04 pm

morgan wrote:Hi BaconFries, thanks for testing, it would make a great extension if you could have more than one set of photos. Do you know of any other extension that can do it. This site seems to have it sorted.
http://www.lauramurphydesign.co.uk/inte ... folio.html
I am trying to set up a for sale page with this type of look.

Regards Dan

Dan this is LightBox. Officially made by Pablo.

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:11 pm

Hi sneil69, LightBox is great but it shows all the pictures on the main page where as BackBox can only show one.

Regards Dan

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:16 pm

morgan wrote:Hi sneil69, LightBox is great but it shows all the pictures on the main page where as BackBox can only show one.

Regards Dan

Dan there is another one but it is not free.

http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/lightview/

Eddy · Post by **Eddy** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:13 pm

Did you try with rename rel="lightbox[slide]" to rel="lightbox[slide1]"

Select the extension again and change ID to:
[slide1] (are than the next 15 images.)

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:31 pm

Thanks for that but I think that star57 has a better and smoother look, I just hope that star57 has a solution. It's nice to use extensions as there is less configuration for a novice.

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:33 pm

Hi Eddy, can you just guide me on how to change that.

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:39 pm

Hi Dan if you can wait I know you will get a reply from Star he has been away for a couple of days and will answer asap as soon as he reads this post

Eddy · Post by **Eddy** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:59 pm

morgan wrote:Hi Eddy, can you just guide me on how to change that.

You can try this to know if it works,

1)Insert two slideshows on your page.
2)publisch to your server.

3)Export to HTML (the same page).
4)change in your page with notepad [slide] to [slide1] in de second slideshow.
5)upload the changed page to overwrite the first publisched page.

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:51 pm

Eddy I have changed the code, there seems to be a problem with the second BB only showing 1 photo and all photos on the first BB. Please check to see if I have done it as you said.
http://www.schryver-restoration.com/test1

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:02 pm

Ok I think this has sorted it, but it makes it hard to use on a for sale page where items will change on a regular basis.
http://www.schryver-restoration.com/test2
I wish that the extension could handle it

Regards Dan

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 12:43 am

Sorry heff requires purchase to use so wont be possible to make into extension

Dan there is another one but it is not free.

Permission to use Lightview on your domain is required and can be obtained by paying a small fee. For non-commercial domains this will allow you to use Lightview under a Creative Commons by-nc-nd License. When you get permission for a commercial domain you may use Lightview under the terms of the Creative Commons by-nd License.

Eddy · Post by **Eddy** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:52 am

morgan wrote:Ok I think this has sorted it, but it makes it hard to use on a for sale page where items will change on a regular basis.
I wish that the extension could handle it
Regards Dan

Maybe sneil69 can make a variable for this in the extension to change slide to slide1 - slide2 ..

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:33 am

What a wonderful extension it would be, I hope someone can do it.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:34 am

morgan wrote:What a wonderful extension it would be, I hope someone can do it.

Are you talking about Lightview?

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:42 am

No BackBox

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:50 am

sneil69 this is what I mean...

Eddy wrote:Maybe sneil69 can make a variable for this in the extension to change slide to slide1 - slide2 ..

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:13 am

Hi all, I seem to have is working ok

http://www.schryver-restoration.com/test4/

Just got couple of problems.
1 They dont stay in the same place onced published or previewed. This is where I placed them in WB6

2 In Firefox the text area has no white background.

Can anybody help, this whole thing is driving me crazy

Once sorted it will work well as you can have a single picture on the main page and then show the rest with text. If anybody can think of a different solution I would have a go.

star57 · Post by **star57** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:08 pm

I am sorry that I have not been able to answer your request, please bare with me as I am just getting back to work and getting items done after my fathers passing. So if this is not working for you yet, let me know.
I have not found the fix for Firefox paragraph overlap as instructed in the updates.

Thanks for understanding.

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:47 pm

My thoughts are with you Star take your time to get back into things..

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:47 am

Star, please take your time. When you are ready we will be here.

Regards Dan

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:39 am

morgan wrote:Star, please take your time. When you are ready we will be here.

Regards Dan

Star I second that!

star57 · Post by **star57** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:38 pm

Thanks Everyone.

The firefox issue is within the backbox.css, and I am testing out the issue.
maybe the more experianced users can take a look and see if the can stream line it?

I have updated the demo and you can check FF and others.
http://www.star57.com/extensions/backbox/index2.php

Here is the BackBox.css
http://www.star57.com/extensions/backbox/backbox.css

Thanks

Eddy · Post by **Eddy** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:41 pm

I think you have to use the XHTML doctype .

From the original demo page.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

star57 · Post by **star57** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:01 pm

Eddy, can you take this project as people need it and I am dealing with issues? I can send you all the files I have. Thanks

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:07 pm

Hi Eddy, this is a great extension I just hope it can be sorted. I have no idea what to do with a XHTML doctype is so lets hope someone does.

I just wanted to say what a great forum this is, I am quite a newcomer but feel very happy to take part with my novice skills. Thanks to all who have helped me over the past 18 months

Eddy · Post by **Eddy** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:34 pm

star57 wrote:Eddy, can you take this project as people need it and I am dealing with issues? I can send you all the files I have. Thanks

Your demo page works in firefox and IE and I dont see any problem in the css ?
I have this week not the time to work on scripts

i `am only two times a day online this week.
Thats why I cannot post mutch answers , sorry

star57 · Post by **star57** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:35 pm

Thanks Baconfries, Your a life saver!!!!!!

Calum is taking over the project, I want to say THANK YOU!!!!!

Eddy I know how it is, I am in a crunch now!

BaconFries · Post by **BaconFries** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:38 pm

I will get to work on this asap and will post it as soon as I work things out
just take sometime out Keith...

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Wed May 26, 2010 10:12 pm

Hi yeonyu,

What can I do for you????