[Pro] Lightbox2 & FW7?

Hi all. I drafted a proposal for a new job w/ FW 5.5 and made heavy use of Tim Plumb’s Lightbox2 Action, based on the work of Lokesh Dhakar ( http://lokeshdhakar.com ). I’ve looked over at http://www.freewayactions.com and don’t see any info about the compatibility of lightbox2 & FW7. Does anyone happen to know? I’m really hoping to use FW7 on this project, but I need the functionality of this action also.

Thanks for your input.

Doty


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I think that this will largely depend on whether or not you are using the Responsive capabilities of 7 or not.

As a standard 7 site it should work fine.

What are you planning on creating?

David


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Hi Dave. Thanks for jumping in! Yes, I was hoping to use the responsive capabilities of FW 7. Here is a sample page from the proposal. I created this in FW 5.5: http://invertministries.com/os-churches-cathedral.html

The navbar was created by Gordon Low (and restructured by me) and uses table layout. I realize this will need to be recreated using CSS Menus.

This is a very large site and a lightbox-type action is critical for all the thumbnail images.


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Hi Doty - First thing to understand is that the changes made at each breakpoint can only work using CSS (not HTML, not Javascript, and no cutting and pasting, etc.) - it must be pure CSS atttributes that are edited. The list of CSS attributes you can edit at each breakpoint (for the page and items on the page) are listed in the Extended Reference for FW7 which you can get from http://www.softpress.com/freeway-pro/ (under the Free Trial button).

So … you can’t make any edits to how each individual gallery works at each breakpoint (as they use Javascript), but there is nothing stopping you from moving the initial gallery thumb images so they appear as a column of single images underneath each other down the page.

You also need to understand that resizing of normal graphic items cannot be made to work at each breakpoint. The way to work around that is to import images as pass-through images, change the Width of the item from Flexible to Fixed and then scaling the item up or down in size by dragging the center left or center right handle.

However, as your initial thumbs fit the width of 320px, I suggest you simply move them and don’t even try to edit the sizes of the thumb images (as you might find that the Lightbox 2 Action cannot be applied to a pass-through image).


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Hi Doty

The menu you describe was created using the CSS Menus action but it is held within a table cell as, when the site was originally created several years ago, that was the best way to keep it in the correct position. You should be able to copy the CSS menus instance and paste it into whichever (inline) container you wish and then make the necessary edits.

All the best

Gordon
http://www.gordonlow.net/


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