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#1246 Display Event title on lightbox page?

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Latest post by sbluege on Friday, 02 January 2015 15:35 UTC

Monday, 29 December 2014 11:44 UTC

TreBone

Hello, while using Events Grid to display and choose a single Event from a category, Event title/ description can be displayed above thumbs, but choosing a thumb to start a "slide show" in a lightbox only shows image information; the Event title, date etc is not visible. It is in the html page but is obscured by the lightbox. By messing with the css,ie opacity, z-index, some of the underlying page can be revealed, but the Event details may still be covered by the Image etc.

Can the Event details be displayed in a predicable position eg docked above/below the Box? I am not sure whether to try and edit the eg-compressed.css, or does edittong the uncompressed css do it please?

The display of the lightbox appears to me to be the same whether full screen lightbox is selected or not?
Thanks
Trevor

Monday, 29 December 2014 19:14 UTC

sbluege

Editing CSS and stuff is not the right way do do this. Actually you can't do much without editing core files. The content for the lightbox caption is generated by a PHP class. The only way to change the output is to change this file. Each update would revert those changes.

The full screen mode differs from the normal one. Make sure your menu item does not override the global settings.

Wednesday, 31 December 2014 14:34 UTC

TreBone

As I say above, I am not sure whether to try and edit the eg-compressed.css, or does editing the uncompressed css do it please? OR
you say "the lightbox caption is generated by a PHP class. The only way to change the output is to change this file."
-so where is this file please?

To meet my original requirement in this ticket, I may try and add the Event, or Folder, title to prefix the Image title, (- this might well having as a new feature?)
using MySQL (I have a large pre-existing archive of say 9000 images in 200 folders I am converting from a "manual" PHP based system)so would like to give that its own class - I guess this could be in the Template css?

Thanks
Trevor

Wednesday, 31 December 2014 14:45 UTC

sbluege

CSS can't help you with getting missing data. Please have a look at components\com_eventgallery\library\file.php:getLightBoxTitle().

Unfortunately I have not clue what the relation between MySQL and CSS is. Can you shed some light here?

Friday, 02 January 2015 15:29 UTC

TreBone

If I cannot find a quick or elegant way of using the lightbox code, I will strip the folder and title info from an existing .html "menu" of these 20 years' worth of events, already used in a MySQL query to insert titles into _eventgallery_folder table by folder name,

to prefix the file `titles` in table _eventgallery_file, adding perhaps in-line css, or better; something like
title set to
<div class="event-title">Dartmoor Tour 2011</div><div class="file-title">Dartington Cider Press</div>
-works fine with those classes defined in the template css.
Happy new year!
Trevor