I’m trying to use Scripy Light box to click on an image and open the movie in a lightbox, but but I must be doing something (or many things) wrong.
I think I set it up then click on it and nothing opens.
What I’d like to do (don’t know if this is possible) is have an image that’s clicked on and the movie opens in a lightbox window.
Is that possible?
Thanks.
Bob
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Sure. Simply make a link from the picture to the movie. The easiest
way to do that is to follow the single-image instructions for SL:
Click on the image you want to be the trigger. Apply the
ScriptyLightbox Action to the image, and since you’re going to link to
a QuickTime movie (or Flash) enter the dimensions of the movie in the
Actions palette where indicated. Check the checkbox if you want SA to
calculate the final dimension 16px taller.
While you have the image selected, next apply the Graphic Link to
File Action. In the Actions palette, select the QuickTime Movie as the
file you wish to link to.
There is no step 3.
Walter
On Feb 18, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Robert B wrote:
I’m trying to use Scripy Light box to click on an image and open the
movie in a lightbox, but but I must be doing something (or many
things) wrong.I think I set it up then click on it and nothing opens.
What I’d like to do (don’t know if this is possible) is have an
image that’s clicked on and the movie opens in a lightbox window.Is that possible?
Thanks.
Bob
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Thanks, Walt. Didn’t occur to me to put those two actions together.
For now, I used the less elegant Link to File Action alone.
I will use your suggestion in the future (or if this client doesn’t like the plain vanilla version).
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I tried your method, but the lightbox image is much smaller than my movie even though I put in the exact dimensions.
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In which browser(s)?
Walter
On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Robert B wrote:
I tried your method, but the lightbox image is much smaller than my
movie even though I put in the exact dimensions.Bob
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Also, are there more than one instance of the Action on the same page?
Try a test page where you have one image wired to one movie, just as
noted previously. See if that works the way that it should.
There’s a tricky thing about this Action – true for any case where
you apply the same Action to more than one element on the page. If you
decide to use the dimensions fields, and you have more than one movie
on the page, you have to pick one size and enter it in all the
instances of the Action that appear on that page. The reason for this
(and this is the tricky part) is that you don’t know which copy of the
Action will actually add its code to the page until the page
publishes. So all of them have to tell the same story to Freeway, or
else the setting never gets made in the final code.
Walter
On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Robert B wrote:
I tried your method, but the lightbox image is much smaller than my
movie even though I put in the exact dimensions.Bob
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OK. For no good reason at all it worked this morning!
If I use it on all three and put in the sizes, the first one just shows as a huge version of the spinning icon as the first image that would be clicked on (so this is before I even click on it and open it into the lightbox).
If I put it on all three and don’t put any measurements in, it works OK, but they all open as the size a the first one on the page.
So, it does seem to be acting as you said. But, it does seem to work.
I’ve had this work/not work thing happen on other sites. Not sure if FW is not producing the correct javascript sometimes or what.
Thanks for the help.
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Hello-
Been working with this script for a month or so now, and 95% of the time it has worked amazingly for me in Firefox, but I’m running into a couple bugs in Safari and Chrome.
Safari mostly works, with the exception that you have no control over the quicktime player. This I can tolerate, though I’d love to fix it.
Chrome, however, does not play the video at all. Just the audio. I’ve troubleshooted this in a multitude of fashions after reading the threads. I have increased the window size (in the action setting), above and beyond the largest video on the page. I’ve tested it with nothing but an image and a link on a page by itself, I’ve changed the dimensions in every single instance of the action on the page… all to no avail.
I have a test directory set up at:
http://www.mitchgerbus.com/test/
If there’s any feedback or insight you could offer it would be immensely appreciated.
Thank you so much for your help!!!
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Have you tried placing this same video on a bare page using Freeway? This sounds like a QuickTime X problem on Snow Leopard, rather than the lightbox. It sounds as though you don’t have the right codec for this movie to play in the browser plug-in.
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Hi Walter, thanks so much for your reply.
I have tried that. You can direct link to the quicktime file here: http://www.mitchgerbus.com/test/MEDIA/Jaguar-XF2.mov
And that plays just fine in chrome.
My latest solution is to potentially host all my video on vimeo, and embed the file in the lightbox, which seems to work on Chrome. Though I’d much rather just link to my quicktime files directly…
Any other ideas?
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Not off hand, but I will look into it.
Walter
On May 2, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Mitch Arcadia wrote:
Hi Walter, thanks so much for your reply.
I have tried that. You can direct link to the quicktime file here: http://www.mitchgerbus.com/test/MEDIA/Jaguar-XF2.mov
And that plays just fine in chrome.
My latest solution is to potentially host all my video on vimeo, and
embed the file in the lightbox, which seems to work on Chrome.
Though I’d much rather just link to my quicktime files directly…Any other ideas?
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Could you please repeat your tests, and rather than browsing directly
to the QuickTime movie, use Freeway to present it on an HTML page? I
am interested to know what you see when you go to mymovie.html rather
than mymovie.mov. ScriptyLightbox uses JavaScript to create a
temporary object/embed tag for your movie, just like you would
encounter if you came to a Freeway page with a movie drawn on it. I
need to narrow down what the issue is between Chrome and your
particular movie.
Walter
On May 3, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Not off hand, but I will look into it.
Walter
On May 2, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Mitch Arcadia wrote:
Hi Walter, thanks so much for your reply.
I have tried that. You can direct link to the quicktime file here: http://www.mitchgerbus.com/test/MEDIA/Jaguar-XF2.mov
And that plays just fine in chrome.
My latest solution is to potentially host all my video on vimeo,
and embed the file in the lightbox, which seems to work on Chrome.
Though I’d much rather just link to my quicktime files directly…Any other ideas?
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Sometime around 2/5/10 (at 16:42 -0400) Mitch Arcadia said:
My latest solution is to potentially host all my video on vimeo, and
embed the file in the lightbox, which seems to work on Chrome.
Though I’d much rather just link to my quicktime files directly…
One very good reason for hosting videos on services such as Vimeo is
the reduction in bandwidth for your own site. Video-sharing services
are set up for massively high data throughput, whereas most
general-purpose web hosting setups are not tailored in quite the same
way. Even if you have an ‘unlimited bandwidth’ web hosting account,
using a specialist media server for this kind of content spreads the
load. It should optimise your site’s performance, if only a bit.
It’d be nice to have a Vimeo version of the YouTube video action,
particularly if it included ways to customise the code that controls
how the video behaves. If any action writer happens to have time on
their hands… 
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Thank you again for your continued suggestions & help. Seriously appreciate it!
I’ve created two more test pages. One with just a movie embedded, and one with a text link using the Scripty Lightbox action.
Embedded Quicktime:
http://www.mitchgerbus.com/test/movietest.html
Scripty Lightbox action (with size set, substantially larger then the video)
http://www.mitchgerbus.com/test/movietest2.html
Again, I’m getting the video & audio fine when embedded, but when using the lightbox I am only getting audio when using Google Chrome.
Let me know if this brings to light any other ideas… I’m stumped.
On 3 May 2010, 12:05 pm, waltd wrote:
Could you please repeat your tests, and rather than browsing directly
to the QuickTime movie, use Freeway to present it on an HTML page? I
am interested to know what you see when you go to mymovie.html rather
than mymovie.mov. ScriptyLightbox uses JavaScript to create a
temporary object/embed tag for your movie, just like you would
encounter if you came to a Freeway page with a movie drawn on it. I
need to narrow down what the issue is between Chrome and your
particular movie.Walter
On May 3, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Not off hand, but I will look into it.
Walter
On May 2, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Mitch Arcadia wrote:
Hi Walter, thanks so much for your reply.
I have tried that. You can direct link to the quicktime file here: http://www.mitchgerbus.com/test/MEDIA/Jaguar-XF2.mov
And that plays just fine in chrome.
My latest solution is to potentially host all my video on vimeo,
and embed the file in the lightbox, which seems to work on Chrome.
Though I’d much rather just link to my quicktime files directly…Any other ideas?
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Hi,
Is it possible to put a link into the final image of carousel so that someone is taken to an external site? And could this be done with Scriptyfader? I have not seen this in threads despite quite a bit of searching …
hoping someone can help here.
Al
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Both Carousel and ScriptyFader (not sure why this is in the
ScriptyLightbox thread) allow you to switch between any type of
content you like. Draw a set of identical DIVs, put (or nest) some
content within them of almost any kind, apply the relevant Actions to
them, and they will be transitioned between one “frame” and the next.
What you put within those frames is entirely up to you.
Walter
On Jul 6, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Aland65 wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to put a link into the final image of carousel so
that someone is taken to an external site? And could this be done
with Scriptyfader? I have not seen this in threads despite quite a
bit of searching …hoping someone can help here.
Al
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