[tweak] Photo popup tuner.

[covoxer]

Hi everyone.

There were many requests for the Photo popup outlook customization so I've made a tweak that does it. Please test it and tell me your opinions. If it's ok and useful, I'll add it to the Tweak Set.

So, here we go. The attached "Gallery Settings.xar" is a tweak.
Use:
1. Open your page that contains photo popups.
2. Drag and drop "Gallery Settings.xar" from explorer to your page.
3. Open newly created "--Photo Popup Settings--" layer and make adjustments.
Preview the result.
Experiment with it.

Attached "galex.web" is an example of using this tweak together with "Gallery background" from the Tweak Set.

All comments, opinions, suggestions and questions are mostly welcome!

[Ross Macintosh]

John - In the playing I just did modifying your galex.web I found your system worked well and was easy to customize. Thanks tons for developing this functionality.

Is there any possibility that there be some kind of optional drop shadow effect on the popup frame?

Regards, Ross

[covoxer]

Is there any possibility that there be some kind of optional drop shadow effect on the popup frame?

The popup window is dynamically resized so the shadow can't be a single image (if it has a feathering and is resized the feathering will look bad). I can make it with a rectangle but then it will not have a blurred edge. To make it blurred and resizable it would require at least 4 bitmaps.
But generally speaking, it is possible. I'm also thinking about adding draggability to the preview window with a snippet.

[DD]

Thankyou John,

I like it. It's good to have this control over the colours.

There seems to be a thin (1pix ? ) black line around the bitmap.

Could this be customisable too ?

[covoxer]

Thankyou John,

I like it. It's good to have this control over the colours.

There seems to be a thin (1pix ? ) black line around the bitmap.

Could this be customisable too ?

Yes. I forgot about it!
Thanks for mentioning.

[slavelle]

I tried out your example and I like it. The customizability will make this feature more usable for me as the results look more custom as well - not as "packaged".

Very cool. Looking forward to additional extras on this one as well as its inclusion in the tweak sets.

[gpholman]

Cheers John, an excellent addition.

[Boy]

It's great being able to customize the looks of the photo pop-ups. Thank you very much!

Combining it with your tweak to lock pop-up windows and being able to move them around will greatly enhance flexibility. I'm interested in such combination of features so that visitors can click various thumbnails of product samples and compare them by moving the large-size pop-up photos side by side.

[jclements]

This is Nice!

Looks like there is a bit of a "hole" to the left of the X.

[Ted D]

Hi everyone.

There were many requests for the Photo popup outlook customization so I've made a tweak that does it. Please test it and tell me your opinions. If it's ok and useful, I'll add it to the Tweak Set.

So, here we go. The attached "Gallery Settings.xar" is a tweak.
Use:
1. Open your page that contains photo popups.
2. Drag and drop "Gallery Settings.xar" from explorer to your page.
3. Open newly created "--Photo Popup Settings--" layer and make adjustments.
Preview the result.
Experiment with it.

Attached "galex.web" is an example of using this tweak together with "Gallery background" from the Tweak Set.

All comments, opinions, suggestions and questions are mostly welcome!

Hi,
I was trying this out. Thought I would be able to change the colour around the pop image but that doesn't appear to happen. Perhaps I missed something. I tried change the page colour on the phot pop up settings there was no change when I tested it.
Am I understanding the purpose of this tweak?

Advice please and thanks.