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HI

how do u get image description effect like on this link
https://www.phoca.cz/demo/overlib-transp ... ransparent

i.e. description appears when mouse pointer is hovering over thumbnail

it is hard to figure it out from documentation

thanks

Hi,

you have to enable the Overlib effect in the parameters section to get this.

Regards,
Ronny

thanks ronny , that worked

now i ve got another question regarding the same thing


i dont get the same effect when i display category through phoca plugin
, it only shows image titles when pointer hovers over thumbnails
when i go the same category through menu link all is ok, description and titles displayed thru overlib effect

i might be missing something simple again

any help is appreciated here, thanks

You may have to add a parameter to the command line for the plugin. The parameter is named overlib, values are 0 - disabled, 1 - image overlay, 2 - description, 3 - image and description. This could look like:

{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=1|overlib=2}

Hope this does help again...

thanks again ronny, that worked perfectly

my next problem with plugin is when i click on an image thru plugin, the description at the bottom of the image is not displayed (using higslide image only), and again this works if i click on the same image thumbnail thru menu link

there are some displaydescription and descriptionheight arguments to the plugin, i tried those, nothing happend,


and also margin (or padding) to the left and right of the thumbnails is much larger (cca 5 times) than the
vertical margin (padding) , thumbnails displayed thru menu link are all displaying with the same margin (padding)
vertically and horizontally (i am displaying the same category)

thanks again

Seems you're encountering the same problems I had some time ago...

To get the description displayed in Highslide (Image only) you have to add the parameter highslidedescription=1|2|3 to the plugin command line. (Don't know exactly what the parameter value meant - just try it out...)

For the border around the thumbnails I had a similar problem - it was much smaller for portrait thumbnails than for landscape. Since I have added the parameter minboxwidth=120 everything works as I want it to be.

Give it a try...

hey ronny thanks again, all is good now

my thumbnails are actually 100 px wide by 75 px high, so if i add minboxwidth=100 (not 120 like u did, your thumbs were probably 120 px wide ??), it works,
it seems that 20 pixels are added to the thumb width somewhere in the plugin code , and the box around my thumbs
ends up being 120 px wide

also i got description problem working by adding highslidedescription=2



and how do you center thumbnail images on the page when displayed thru the plugin ??
(works thru the menu link , all thumbs are centered on the page)

is there another parameter to the plugin to do this ?


also a slight problem with padding/margin using plugin and menu link ,
i.e. my margin and padding are set to 0 thru parameters, there are exactly 2 px
of space between thumbnails when they are displayed thru menu link
and 3 px space when displayed with plugin , any hints as to what could cause this ??




thanks again

The larger side of my thumbnails is also 100 pixels wide - but the value for the minboxwidth parameter depends on the effect you want to get. My primary problem with this was that for portrait thumbnails the frame was too small, in fact smaller than the thumbnail.

Unfortunately I don't know a solution for centering the thumbnails - I don't want them to be displayed centered... But maybe anyone else can help here...

no problem, these are minor problems, nothing critical

for start i want to have only thumbnails with only few px of space between them ,
no border , no shadow effect. i.e i want to keep it simple as there will be lots of
pictures there, ( it is a kind of mountain/trekking/scuba/ and private area photogallery ),

i just had a look at your gallery ( san francisco etc ) , i am using same effect for the big pics


thanks for your help