On 18 Sep 2009, at 17:13, julie maxwell allen wrote:
PLEASE i really need these instructions… to finish my site and get
it looking professional and not “childish” and unprofessional
Thank you so much
I’m not sure what you’re having trouble with Julie. I hadn’t used the
Scripty Lightbox before, so I went to ActionsForge to have a look at
it. The instructions are right there on the page, and that is
literally all you have to do: just follow the instructions exactly.
They say:
“To use, apply the Action to an HTML item that contains links to the
content you wish to show in the lightbox. (For an easy lightbox of
photos, draw an HTML box and apply the Action to it. Insert inline
graphic boxes for your thumbnail images, then apply the built-in
Graphic Link to File Action to each thumbnail image to create the link
and upload the large image in one step.)”
So, draw an HTML box on the page, and apply the Scripty Lightbox
action to it. Then click in the HTML box so you have a flashing
cursor, and go Insert>Graphic Item. Do it three times, once for each
of your pictures. Select the first graphic item, hit Apple-E, and
choose the picture you want for the thumbnail. Size to fit. Repeat for
the other two boxes. Then apply the ‘Graphic Link to File’ action to
each of the thumbnail boxes. The action palette will then allow you to
choose what file to link to for each box; obviously, it’s the
original, larger version of the file displayed small in the thumbnail.
On Sep 18, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Paul Bradforth wrote:
On 18 Sep 2009, at 17:13, julie maxwell allen wrote:
PLEASE i really need these instructions… to finish my site and get
it looking professional and not “childish” and unprofessional
Thank you so much
I’m not sure what you’re having trouble with Julie. I hadn’t used
the Scripty Lightbox before, so I went to ActionsForge to have a
look at it. The instructions are right there on the page, and that
is literally all you have to do: just follow the instructions
exactly. They say:
“To use, apply the Action to an HTML item that contains links to the
content you wish to show in the lightbox. (For an easy lightbox of
photos, draw an HTML box and apply the Action to it. Insert inline
graphic boxes for your thumbnail images, then apply the built-in
Graphic Link to File Action to each thumbnail image to create the
link and upload the large image in one step.)”
So, draw an HTML box on the page, and apply the Scripty Lightbox
action to it. Then click in the HTML box so you have a flashing
cursor, and go Insert>Graphic Item. Do it three times, once for each
of your pictures. Select the first graphic item, hit Apple-E, and
choose the picture you want for the thumbnail. Size to fit. Repeat
for the other two boxes. Then apply the ‘Graphic Link to File’
action to each of the thumbnail boxes. The action palette will then
allow you to choose what file to link to for each box; obviously,
it’s the original, larger version of the file displayed small in the
thumbnail.
On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:08, julie maxwell allen wrote:
This is my problem… IT works… but the picture replaces my site in
the browser window and is not a pop up…
But how can you say that it works if that’s what happens? I don’t
understand — if the picture doesn’t enlarge in your own site, then
it’s not working! All you have at the moment is the same as you’d have
if you simply applied a conventional link to the thumbnail to the
larger version; it appears on a page of its own.
it doesn’t work and I followed the directions… please help…
Please…
On Sep 18, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Paul Bradforth wrote:
On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:08, julie maxwell allen wrote:
This is my problem… IT works… but the picture replaces my site
in the browser window and is not a pop up…
But how can you say that it works if that’s what happens? I don’t
understand — if the picture doesn’t enlarge in your own site, then
it’s not working! All you have at the moment is the same as you’d
have if you simply applied a conventional link to the thumbnail to
the larger version; it appears on a page of its own.