[Pro] FancyBox help

Has anybody successfully used FancyBox with FW before. It’s similar to FancyZoom but I’m not smart enough to get this to work with FW

Here’s a link to FancyBox - Fancybox - Fancy jQuery lightbox alternative.

Cheers, Marcel


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Remember that if you use FancyBox (JQuery based) on a FW page it wont co-exist with FW native scriptaculous/protaculous effects

It looks easy enough - does it do anything that FancyZoom doesn’t

and remember there is ScriptyLightbox as well ScriptyLightbox - ActionsForge

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FancyBox can do a gallery of images plus other media like video etc.

I do like the convenience of ScriptyLightbox but it seems to load slow and there is no external css file to change the appearance of the light box.

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no external css file to change the appearance of the light box

No but you can add styles to your FW page to do this for you such as

a#lightwindow_title_bar_close_link

and

#lightwindow_title_bar_title

ScriptyLB wont do a gallery but will do other media

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And there is always Weavers MooTools suite http://www.coastalrugs.com/Actions/mootoolssuite.html

Again not happy with script/protaculous but if you are considering JQuery…

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David thanks I will give the styles for Scripty a whirl.

I have used both Scripty LB and Weaver’s Moo with great success. I like the simplicity of FancyZoom and was thinking FancyBox will be that simple to implement as well

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I have had a quick look and it does not appear to be as easy as FancyZoom

David thanks I will give the styles for Scripty a whirl.

Have a look in the lightwindow.css file and you will see all the styles there that you can fiddle with.

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Just remember to add your fixes in Freeway’s Page / HTML Markup dialog
in the Before /HEAD section. If you try editing lightwindow.css
directly, the styles you change will be overwritten by Freeway the
next time you publish, using the “clean” original version from the
Action bundle.

Walter

On Jan 19, 2010, at 2:04 PM, DeltaDave wrote:

I have had a quick look and it does not appear to be as easy as
FancyZoom

David thanks I will give the styles for Scripty a whirl.

Have a look in the lightwindow.css file and you will see all the
styles there that you can fiddle with.

David


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Or you can create a new Tag style like those above ie #lightwindow_title_bar_title in FW’s style palette and it should work fine.

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Thanks Walt and Dave

I’ve messed around quite a bit with the LightWindow css file to get the desired look

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Note Walters comment about it being overwritten when you reupload!

Do it in Page HTML Markup or as a Tag style so it isn’t overwritten every time.

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Or I suppose you could rewrite the file at /Library/Application Support/Freeway 5/Actions/ScriptyLightbox.fwactionb/Contents/Resources/Actions/lightwindow.css

If that is allowed Walter? But it would change it for every instance where you used the action.

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It would change it for every time you publish from the modified
Action, and you would have to track changes on this file when I update
the Action.

You might also try using the External Stylesheet Action to attach a
second stylesheet to the page that sets different defaults for the
lightwindow elements.

I say try, because I’m not at all sure which one of these Actions
would run first. Order of operation would influence which stylesheet
held sway, since the last sheet to define a particular rule “wins”.

Walter

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Or I suppose you could rewrite the file at /Library/Application
Support/Freeway 5/Actions/ScriptyLightbox.fwactionb/Contents/
Resources/Actions/lightwindow.css

If that is allowed Walter? But it would change it for every instance
where you used the action.

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Or I suppose you could rewrite the file at /Library/Application Support/Freeway 5/Actions/ScriptyLightbox.fwactionb/Contents/Resources/Actions/lightwindow.css

I messed around with that the first time I tried it and realized it will become a logistics nightmare keeping track of it.

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