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Re: [OM] Question About Lightbox

Subject: Re: [OM] Question About Lightbox
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:39:22 -0500
I love the shot however it's displayed.  I have something similar 
somewhere in my image collection but it doesn't measure up to the 
simplicity of that one.

Chuck Norcutt

On 3/1/2013 3:49 PM, Frank Wijsmuller wrote:
> Do you mean this lightbox? <
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fmw/8514550720/in/photostream/lightbox/>
>
> That is what you get if you click on a Flickr picture (when it is on its
> own page). At least I get it and I'm not aware that I ever installed
> something to get it?
>
> Just trying to help, best, Frank.
>
>
>
> 2013/3/1 Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>
>>>
>>> On 3/1/2013 7:12 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
>>>>        I'm interested in using Lightbox, but looking for it by way of
>> Google
>>>> does not produce a downloadable that self-installs.  Instead, I get
>> links to
>>>> all sorts of downloads that require additional downloads to install the
>>>> files manually.  After what I've gone through for the past couple of
>> months
>>>> I'm not very interested in hacking my way through another utility.
>>>>
>>>>        So, anyone know of a downloadable for Lightbox that includes an
>> install
>>>> function?
>>>
>>> Might you be asking the wrong question? It looks to me that Lightbox IS
>> one of
>>> those incompletely realized packages that will bring trouble and
>> frustration.
>>> It's an abandoned, limited version of Sagelight that is not supported
>> and won't
>>> be updated.
>>>
>>> Sagelight offers a Lightbox package that is supposed to actually be
>> freestanding,
>>> if desired, no additional stuff.
>>> <http://www.sagelighteditor.com/downloadfree.html>
>>>
>>> OTOH, as explained above and in the above link, Lightbox doesn't sound
>> very
>>> attractive, and they promise a new, free, version of Sagelight soon.
>>>
>>> Why not download and try the full Sagelight for 30 days. If you like it,
>> you
>>> might even feel like paying the $40 for a registered, supported version.
>> If
>>> not, you could move on.
>>>
>>> IF you are trying to avoid troublesome installation and use, why not use
>>> something that's known to work? There are a lot of free or very
>> inexpensive
>>> image editors around. Are you intentionally looking for one especially
>> likely
>>> to be unsatisfactory?
>>>
>>
>>       The Lightbox I'm thinking of is the Java plug-in that I see fairly
>> often in many URLs for images on Flickr that is supposed to give you an
>> enlargable overlay.  I've downloaded that package, but then it requires yet
>> another editor of some sort to install it and most of it seems to be lines
>> that you add to your home page header file.  Without it, when I go to those
>> URLs with the "..../lightbox/" at the end I just get a black screen with a
>> violet dot in the middle.  Then I have to manually delete the
>> "..../lightbox/" so I can see the images.
>>
>>       I did download and install the free version of Sagelight (Lightbox)
>> this morning, thinking it would install the Java addon, but no.  However, I
>> do like stated features of the Sagelight viewer/editor and I'm going to
>> give it a try every so often.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Curious Moose
>>>
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>>
>> Chris
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