Smart Photo grid - can’t pop up photos

[bwood]

This has happened to me before. I’ve added photos into a smart photo grid. And also used the pop up photo on the entire grid. But the individual photos do not pop up. In fact nothing happens at all. I’d rather not dismantle the entire grid. I’ve done a few of these and there still not popping up.
I should mention that I’ve got a ton of layers on this page that are above the Mouseoff- Mouseover layers. Any suggestions?
Many Thanks
- Bill

[letsgofishing]

This has happened to me before. I’ve added photos into a smart photo grid. And also used the pop up photo on the entire grid. But the individual photos do not pop up. In fact nothing happens at all. I’d rather not dismantle the entire grid. I’ve done a few of these and there still not popping up.
I should mention that I’ve got a ton of layers on this page that are above the Mouseoff- Mouseover layers. Any suggestions?
Many Thanks
- Bill

If selecting the grid and going to image properties | pop up | apply should work, though I've had occasions when it doesn't - use Ctrl + the selector tool to select each image, go image properties, check pop up image, specify size, hit apply.

I just drag and drop the images I want to use onto the page and size/arrange them into rows/grids till I'm happy - select all the pics at once and apply the pop up settings.

On occasion I've used smart grids with small numbers of images - say 10/12, and make them pop ups as above.
If I need to add say 5/6 new images, I make a new Smart grid below the initial one.

[bwood]

@letsgofishing - Thank You, but Ctl + selector tool > pop up image isn't working either. I wonder why. This works on a couple of sites that I maintain but not on this one. I still wonder if its got anything to do with the layer order. As you can see all my pop up layers are above the MouseOver and MouseOff layers. I'm stumped.
I might have to go with a standard grid and pop up each image, but I rather like smart grids.
-Bill

[Acorn]

I am sad to have to advise that Xara has done diddly to address "Smart" Photo Grids or otherwise since they were shoved upon us: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ids-amp-Panels.
They are an aberration simply because they do not work and do not fit into how 'unsmart' Xara objects have always been manipulated.

I have tried to follow the detail in http://outsider.xara.com/tutorials/november16/ without any real progress.
Avoid.

Acorn

[bwood]

Well. I just can’t figure out why the smart grids work sometimes, and other times do not. I managed to place a grid and ungrouped many times and got a decent photo grid. Then shift>selected each one and got a pop up. Workable but fiddly. By the way these grids hate tiff images.

https://billwood.ca/early%20settlers.htm Bottom of the page.

bill

[Acorn]

Well. I just can’t figure out why the smart grids work sometimes, and other times do not. I managed to place a grid and ungrouped many times and got a decent photo grid. Then shift>selected each one and got a pop up. Workable but fiddly. By the way these grids hate tiff images.

https://billwood.ca/early%20settlers.htm Bottom of the page.

bill

Bill, it's because Xara has done all that nesting of images into groups.

Acorn

[letsgofishing]

Well. I just can’t figure out why the smart grids work sometimes, and other times do not. I managed to place a grid and ungrouped many times and got a decent photo grid. Then shift>selected each one and got a pop up. Workable but fiddly. By the way these grids hate tiff images.

https://billwood.ca/early%20settlers.htm Bottom of the page.

bill

Pleased you got it sort of working. For so few images - the 8 details of the house, I would just have dragged & dropped and resized to choice, select all pop-up 800px or whatever, apply,done.
Why are you using tiffs? Jpegs give you much smaller file sizes and are more than adequate for the web.
I'm also not sure why you've created those pop-up layers? - I can't see what the contents of each layer is, but just make the images pop-ups (which it seems you have).

[Weeble]

Bill,

I'm still very much a newbie finding my way around Web Designer and not sure if this is just a repeat of what you've suggested, but I've spent all day producing 6 pages of galleries using the Smart Photo Grid widget each with up to to 72 photos on a 6 x 12 grid. This has been very 'trying' to say the least, but after lots of trial and errors I've come to the following conclusion: You only get one shot at setting the pop-up size at the widget object level. i.e. the widget will stop working if you try to change the Pop-up width value once it has been set. I've gone through this several times from various angles and each time I get the same results so I guess this is the root of the problem.

To get the widget back into a working state I've done what you describe -- i.e. using the Fill tool (and Shift key held down) I select every photo in the grid then enter the new Pop-up width in the Web Properties>Image tab. This will put the widget back in a working state and it is now possible to change the Pop-up Width of an individual photo(s) if required.

Mike