ScriptyLightbox2

eyal shtark 16 Feb 2011, 11:58

This is GREAT !

Can you make it to play WMV files too?

Good work Eyal

Walter Davis 16 Feb 2011, 18:07

I could, if there was enough demand for that sort of thing. The primary motivation for making this Action was to create an iPad-friendly player effect. WMV is not iPad-friendly by any stretch of the imagination. The original ScriptyLightbox can handle WMV if you need that.

Walter

sven de With 17 May 2011, 11:40

I used ScriptyLightbox2 for displaying pictures. problem is Internet Explorer, it will not display correctly :(

Walter Davis 17 May 2011, 12:43

Can you post a link? How large are these full-size pictures? If they are large enough, the file will not have downloaded by the time the script fires, and so the script will not be able to determine the pixel dimensions of the image.

Guy Davis 10 Jun 2011, 16:30

Walter, thanks for the great script. How does one make a quicktime autoplay when clicked? I've tried setting the presentation mode in QT but this makes no difference. You managed to do it on the demo page - but how??????

Thanks again

Guy

Walter Davis 10 Jun 2011, 16:38

There's nothing to do except the following: make sure you have enabled Fast Start for Web when compressing your movie file, and make sure that your movie file is small.

Guy Davis 10 Jun 2011, 17:13

here's a link - might help…

www.spotfilms.co.uk

Walter Davis 10 Jun 2011, 17:22

I just looked through the code, and it appears that the Action sets autoplay="false" deliberately. You could open up your copy of the Action and change this if you like, or you could wait until I have some time to add a control to the Action for this.

Walter Davis 10 Jun 2011, 17:24

The reason my example auto-plays is because it didn't set anything at all, so the browser could just decide what to do (usually autoplay).

Walter Davis 10 Jun 2011, 19:43

I just pushed a new version, you should try it out. This adds a checkbox to control auto-play.

Guy Davis 12 Jun 2011, 08:34

Wow, thanks Walter! On another note, do you have any suggestions on how I can get the window to open more quickly. At the moment it seems to take a few seconds to open, and I know how impatient some of my clients are! Can one pre load the script or films?

Thanks again for you help

Guy

Guy Davis 12 Jun 2011, 08:48

Or maybe if it's the size of the qt files can we spec a holding jpg 'loading…' which switches to the qt when it runs??

thanks again

Walter Davis 12 Jun 2011, 15:23

The pause at loading is required, and in some cases it's not long enough – particularly for large movies.

There's still plenty of room for improvements in this Action – it hasn't even made it to 1.0 yet, so keep those suggestions coming!

Guy Davis 13 Jun 2011, 09:30

Cool, I realise that the video will take time to load - what I was wondering is if the zoom window could happen instantly? Otherwise people will keep clicking on the small icon thinking nothing is happening. Thanks Walter G

Shane Dobbins 23 Jun 2011, 15:43

This is totally on my list of things to find a usage for.

Walter Davis 23 Jun 2011, 16:16

The delay is there because there has to be a certain amount of the file downloaded in order for the JavaScript to grab the dimensions and build the appropriate-sized display box for that movie or photo.

James Wages 9 Dec 2011, 06:42

Walter, I fully understand your older "ScriptyLightbox" action allows for links, but that older version has its own set of problems. There is no drop shadow. It's slow to open the media, in part due to the special effects. And there are no rounded corners. Your newer version doesn't have those problems. But alas, ScriptyLightbox2 does not allow me to add text links or graphic links. So could you please add that to the feature set?

Thanks.

Justin Walker 19 Feb 2012, 16:03

I was wondering if I could use a mark-up item with this Action. I was playing with it but I couldn't figure out how to make it work. Any ideas? Thank you all for the help. Either way, I love this Action.

Walter Davis 19 Feb 2012, 16:32

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you want to apply the Action to a Markup Item? Or do you want to inject the contents of a Markup Item into the popped "window"?

Walter

Chris Jones 23 Feb 2012, 13:59

Hi Walter- Can this link to a gallery slideshow, similar to the scrollable images that showcase provides?

Walter Davis 23 Feb 2012, 14:51

If you link it to another page in your site, you can create this effect. The popup will contain an iframe, and within that iframe you could load a carousel or fading slideshow or pretty much anything else. Just be aware that you may be putting an enormous stress on the browser, because the content of that iframe counts as an entire separate page, and if it loads a zillion bits of JavaScript animation code along with your many photos, on top of the size of the page that's calling it into being, you're getting into a serious load that the browser may deal with poorly or not at all.

Klaus Lange 11 Apr 2012, 14:28

Hi Walter, nice script! Instead of black I would like to have the background color white. Any chance ? Thanks!

david parvin 20 Jul 2012, 10:28

not sure if this is covered. in osx lion the player is sleek and lovely, in earlier versions of the mac osx, the horrible quicktime player control bar is displayed. is there a way to ensure what play bar everyone will see? i prefer the sleeker one in osx lion.

thanks

Walter Davis 20 Jul 2012, 14:10

No, the player bar is drawn by the QuickTime plug-in, not the Action. All that the Action does is write the correct HTML for an embedded movie. If you want cross-platform movie loveliness, I recommend either the VideoJS or the SublimePlayer Action.

david parvin 23 Aug 2012, 12:05

is there anyway that the pop up window that plays or shows the media can be moved on the screen once it is up, but dragging the mouse?