New Releases for Lightbox2 - finally!
After a number of months since the last official release, new releases of the Lightbox2 module are now available - versions 5.x-2.9 and 6.x-1.9. It's been a long time coming, but it's well worth it, with over 70 individual changes. There's a whole bunch of new features, and bug fixes too.
New features include:
- Full 6.x support for the imagefield, filefield and emfield modules!
- New 'download' link feature for imagefields and image.module images. This also means the addition of a new 'download original image' permission. (6.x only)
- Ability to display the contact form in a lightbox.
- Grouping of lightvideos.
- Support for divx and flv videos.
- Ability to trigger a lightbox or slideshow by clicking on a link - useful for dynamically generated content (e.g. in Views), where you may not know the path to the first image.
- Automatic image handling support for 'preview', etc, links on image nodes.
- Ability to have a lightbox popup on page load.
- and many more...
While this is great, it does mean the end of new features in the 5.x version. From now on, new features will only be added to the 6.x version, but the 5.x will keep receiving bug fixes until a 7.x version is available.
The new releases can be downloaded from the Lightbox2 project page, while details on all the changes can be found below:
Enjoy!
thanks for all your great work Stella!
Stella, thanks for all the hard work you put into this fantastic module.
This module is a godsend - makes Lightbox integration push-button simple, and I'm glad for it. Keep up the great work!
I've been looking at the various lightboxes for a while and your Lightbox2 is far and away the best. A great module.
I do have one question: How do you integrate with Vimeo? Do you have any syntax examples? I've tried various approaches, but no luck so far. I know a lot of other folks on the Drupal issues lists have been asking this too, so it would help the community as a whole.
Many thanks!
This question was raised before - please see http://drupal.org/node/318418 for more details.
Thanks so much for your quick reply. I should have noted that that's what I'm using. Still no luck -- the video opens in a separate browser. I followed all the directions here: http://drupal.org/node/354397. I'll try to send more detailed information.
I've checked Vimeo in the emfield settings, and put a path to my flvplayer.
I think the problem is in the syntax: I'm following the examples here: http://drupal.org/node/252276
but when I get the embed code from vimeo I get this:
So to get it to look like the examples, I do this in Drupal:
Grouped example 2
which does not work (It opens the video in a separate window). I've tried a variety of combinations of the code above, but no good.
Here's the code:
What I get from Vimeo:
<object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=337298&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=337298&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object>What I've tried most recently:
<a rel="lightvideo[group][caption 2]" href="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=337298">Grouped example 2</a> <br />Please follow up in the issue already present on drupal.org.
Thanks. I've added the information to this issue: http://drupal.org/node/318418.
Thank you very much indeed for your considerable efforts that make it so easy to drag sites together without writing a single line of code. Coz you did all the code for us already!
Really appreciated Stella - you rule!
thank you very much lightbox2 really rock it,s a gr8 package.