Text link to Showcase?

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The path of life has led me to a situation wherein I’d like to have a Showcase lightbox spring out of a plain text link. Not seeing an action for this, I’ve tried adding markup from another, standard Showcase gallery. Alas, I don’t really know what I’m doing here, and so unsurprisingly it hasn’t worked.

I know I could do this with Scripty lightbox or Mootools, but the rest of my site uses Showcase and I’d like the visual style of all galleries to match. Is there a way to make a Showcase gallery pop up from a text link? Thanks!

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I should add that all I really need to do is access via text link a gallery that has been created on another page. Is there any sort of copy/paste that can be done?

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I’m assuming by the silence that this is not possible?

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Can you post a link to your existing Showcase page, using whatever
method the actual Action creates for you (I’m presuming here that this
would be a thumbnail image of some sort). It’s probably very easy to
copy and paste the generated URL out of the page source, but I haven’t
played with this sidecar application yet so I don’t know what its code
looks like.

Walter

On Dec 6, 2010, at 9:53 PM, derekzinger wrote:

The path of life has led me to a situation wherein I’d like to have
a Showcase lightbox spring out of a plain text link. Not seeing an
action for this, I’ve tried adding markup from another, standard
Showcase gallery. Alas, I don’t really know what I’m doing here, and
so unsurprisingly it hasn’t worked.

I know I could do this with Scripty lightbox or Mootools, but the
rest of my site uses Showcase and I’d like the visual style of all
galleries to match. Is there a way to make a Showcase gallery pop up
from a text link? Thanks!

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Hi Walt

The page is located here:
http://web.me.com/flyvebaad/test/floor/portfolio.html

(You’ll notice that I am a very happy user of your Carousel action :D)

The first image in the gallery I’d like to link to is here:
http://web.me.com/flyvebaad/test/floor/Resources/gallery1a.jpeg?604
As this is a text link, the lightbox would ideally begin with this image and allow the user to click through the rest of the gallery.

The Showcase css file in question is here:
http://web.me.com/flyvebaad/filechute/portfolio_gallerySculpturesBottom2010_fwShowcase.css

As you’ve said, I imagine copying and pasting in the appropriate references, scripts and styles will do the trick; I have a general idea of what they are, but am not enough of an expert to make it work. Looking through my folder here, I was expecting to find a “[gallerypopup].html” page, which is how I believe Weaver’s action handles it. No such luck, though.

Thanks a lot for your help, and please let me know if you need anything else.

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Hi Derek,

The JavaScript powering the Showcase Action is expecting to find a particular structure in the HTML. We could potentially add extra Actions that do the same thing to individual images, or text links but it would require some work. I’ll get something logged so we can take a look.

Joe

On 7 Dec 2010, at 17:45, derekzinger wrote:

Hi Walt

The page is located here:
http://web.me.com/flyvebaad/test/floor/portfolio.html

(You’ll notice that I am a very happy user of your Carousel action :D)

The first image in the gallery I’d like to link to is here:
http://web.me.com/flyvebaad/test/floor/Resources/gallery1a.jpeg?604
As this is a text link, the lightbox would ideally begin with this image and allow the user to click through the rest of the gallery.

The Showcase css file in question is here:
http://web.me.com/flyvebaad/filechute/portfolio_gallerySculpturesBottom2010_fwShowcase.css

As you’ve said, I imagine copying and pasting in the appropriate references, scripts and styles will do the trick; I have a general idea of what they are, but am not enough of an expert to make it work. Looking through my folder here, I was expecting to find a “[gallerypopup].html” page, which is how I believe Weaver’s action handles it. No such luck, though.

Thanks a lot for your help, and please let me know if you need anything else.

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Wow. That’s a whole lot of jQuery, and I confess to understanding not
very much of it. Partially because it’s minified (variables are
reduced to single letters, most everything is on one very long line)
but partially because I never really got into jQuery, preferring
Prototype because it suits the way my brain works.

First of all, I don’t see any way within this system to hook the
Showcase from outside of the page, so you couldn’t do the trick that
exists in the Carousel, where you link to your pane name like http://example.com/page.html?yourPane
and the page loads and then the carousel spins to show your selected
pane.

If you wanted to link from within this page, then you’d have to have
some way to put your text link inside of the fwShowcase_container page
element, because that seems to be where the Showcase script is looking
for links to extend.

As I said before, I haven’t played with this yet, so I’m quite unsure
how you would proceed.

Walter

On Dec 7, 2010, at 12:45 PM, derekzinger wrote:

The page is located here:
http://web.me.com/flyvebaad/test/floor/portfolio.html

(You’ll notice that I am a very happy user of your Carousel action :D)

The first image in the gallery I’d like to link to is here:
http://web.me.com/flyvebaad/test/floor/Resources/gallery1a.jpeg?604
As this is a text link, the lightbox would ideally begin with this
image and allow the user to click through the rest of the gallery.

The Showcase css file in question is here:
http://web.me.com/flyvebaad/filechute/portfolio_gallerySculpturesBottom2010_fwShowcase.css

As you’ve said, I imagine copying and pasting in the appropriate
references, scripts and styles will do the trick; I have a general
idea of what they are, but am not enough of an expert to make it
work. Looking through my folder here, I was expecting to find a
“[gallerypopup].html” page, which is how I believe Weaver’s action
handles it. No such luck, though.

Thanks a lot for your help, and please let me know if you need
anything else.

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Thanks, Joe, for logging the request.

Walter, I think the next best solution will be a simple link to the Gallery page > Carousel pane. Thanks, though, for having a look into this.

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