slimbox option in wpg2 3.07

Hello,

my website is www.dodaa.com
The pages in the main frame of the site (yes, old fashioned html frames ) are built in wordpress, and the frame on the right-hand side links to posts in the middle frame with images brought in using wpg2 3.07.

My issue:

I'm handling MANY photos per post, and slimbox, according to its documentation, should activate the effect upon clicking before all images are loaded. I have selected 'slimbox' under the wpg2 settings on the 'use internal lightbox script' dropdown, and reposted, yet, it still won't show the lightbox effect until allll the images are loaded.

Does anyone know why this is, or have experience with the new version of wpg2 and its slimbox option?
again, the site is www.dodaa.com, and the right-hand panel has links to examples.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Interesting!!
I thought lightbox loaded before images but slimbox didn't load until the page had loaded. On my site, slimbox doesn't work until the page has loaded however I do run other JS as well... I'll tag along to see how you go with this one

There are a couple things I notice when looking at your site

The page calls applesearch.init which is causing errors (undefined)

 <script type="text/javascript">
 //<![CDATA[
  window.onload = function () { applesearch.init(); }
 //]]>
 </script>

These will most likely be unrelated to your slimbox but I thought I would mention them for you
- Your link at the bottom of the page in the middle frame "gohome" loads the entire site into the centre frame.

- There is the character " = " showing in the left frame, this could be a harmless typo, or it may be due to a bug, not closing tags etc.

I have been having a play but haven't figured it out yet.

I find if I stop the page loading before all the photos have loaded the slimbox scrip still works in IE but not in Firefox, yet if I don't stop the page loading I need to wait for the page and all thumbnails to finish loading before the script will work. Almost like the the JS is sent early but the browser doesn't let it run till it feels the page has finished

I might set up a test site with out any other plugins to see how it goes.

For me the problem is in the theme, haven't nutted out what exactly, but using a different theme solves the problem.

EDIT: just to prevent confussion, theme = wp theme not g2 theme

The theme I use is Regulus, but I have made many changes to it over the past couple years.
What I have done is load a fresh copy on my test site and slimbox working as it should.
I am now going through and changing files one at a time to the modified files and checking to see if slimbox delays, if/when it does this I will compare the scrip between the offending file and the original to see if I can determine what is causing the problem.

Note: I do use wp slimbox plugin, if I deactivate the plugin and select the use internal script option in wpg2/lightbox options the effects do not work at all, nor will lightbox internal script.

Small update:
I have more than one conflict.

First one. I modefide my theme sidebar.php file to add

<div id="live">
<!-- Powered by: Crafty Syntax Live Help        http://www.craftysyntax.com/ -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="/live/livehelp_js.php?relative=Y&amp;department=1&amp;serversession=1&amp;pingtimes=15"></script>
<!-- copyright 2003 - 2007 by Eric Gerdes -->
</div>

Removing has fixed slimbox on wpg2 pages (NOTE: I use wp sidebar on wpg2 pages). On blog pages slimbox is still being delayed.

It is my understanding that mootools, the JS framework lightbox is running on uses the window event domready as the hook to execute the slimbox javascript it is my limited understanding that his dom event will not fire until the entire page is loaded (including any external links) but NOT including any images, thus yes I can see how you could have a delay..

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Most definitely, I was not aware that Slimbox had a few version bumps.. It went quiet for a while..

Glad you got it working..

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