Showcase / gallery and thumbnails

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Hi

I need to create a gallery of 6 images and am thinking of using Showcase.

I have one image on the page. I want the user to click on it and then the gallery starts.

Is this possible? Or do I have to have thumbnials of all 6 images on my page (I only want a thumbnail of the first image)?

Thanks

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I don’t know if you can do that with Showcase, but you can do it with Moo SlimBox.

Martin
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On Jan 24, 2011, at 6:32 AM, Mark wrote:

Hi

I need to create a gallery of 6 images and am thinking of using Showcase.

I have one image on the page. I want the user to click on it and then the gallery starts.

Is this possible? Or do I have to have thumbnials of all 6 images on my page (I only want a thumbnail of the first image)?

Thanks

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Hi Martin

Thanks for that. I’ve had a quick look at the documentation with Moo SlimBox. It looks a bit daunting compared to Showcase.

Anyone know if you can create a gallery of several images, using Showcase, but only show the first thumbnail on the page?

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On 24 Jan 2011, at 12:30, Mark wrote:

Anyone know if you can create a gallery of several images, using Showcase, but only show the first thumbnail on the page?

This can’t be done, sorry. You would need to use one of the lightbox style Actions to do this, so the one Martin suggested, or ScriptyLightbox.

Joe

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Hi there

I’d recommend Weaver’s Lightbox image action from http://www.coastalrugs.com/Actions/misc.actions.html

Have a look at the image on PCA | Plasticville Collectors Association | N Scale to see how it works.

The action can even work from text links as well if necessary.

As well as using the action you may need to apply to Protaculous action to the page and set the library to Scriptaculous-packed to make sure the correct files are loaded for it to work.

All the best

Gordon
http://www.gordonlow.net/

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Thanks for the suggestions.

I think I’ll use the Moo SlimBox and the Dan Jasker screen cast to help me.

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Mark

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Good idea, Mark. I’m a raw beginner and with Dan’s screen cast, I got the think up and running in no time. Really.

Martin

On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Mark wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions.

I think I’ll use the Moo SlimBox and the Dan Jasker screen cast to help me.

Thanks

Mark

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