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    Hi,

    I did start from zero to hundred with MODx 0.9.6 RC3 two weeks ago - this means I am still struggling with understandig the basics of CSS, php and javascript, so please be patient, if my questions seem to be silly.

    O.K the good news is: I got Maxigallery 0.5.1 to work

    But: with IE 7 are showing up strange white pixels in the big images

    it’s visible here: http://www.tranxx.de/de

    most dramatical this effect shows up in picture no. 7

    This problem occurs only with IE, FF gives a normal beautiful view

    Any ideas what is the reason for and how to solve this issue?

    Furthermore three little layout questions, should be a css conflict but I can’t figure out where to tweak:

    the a:hover effect on the thumbnails, how do I get rid of it?
    how can I put litlle bit more space between the thumbnails?
    the "-" before the picture description in the big image, how do I get rid of it?

    Thanxxs for help
    Claudia










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      For the white pixels problem, I have no clue.. you could try to take off the flash objects and any extra javascripts to see if that does anything.. and if not, start cutting down stuff from your css file to see if something helps.

      For some reason the thumbnails are not wrapped in ul/li properly. The li elements are all missing.. Have you modified the default templates or done your own template?

      Quote from: claudia at May 26, 2007, 11:07 AM

      the a:hover effect on the thumbnails, how do I get rid of it?
      Make those li elements render and you should be good to go..
      Quote from: claudia at May 26, 2007, 11:07 AM

      how can I put litlle bit more space between the thumbnails?
      Define more margin to the thumbs li elements in the css (once you get the li’s rendered), eg. in MaxiGallery default.css ul.thumbs li { margin: 5px 5px 0pt ! important.... }

      There should be that 5px margin, but it’s not there because the li’s are missing.
      Quote from: claudia at May 26, 2007, 11:07 AM

      the "-" before the picture description in the big image, how do I get rid of it?
      Slidebox reads the text from the link title attribute. View the galleryPictureTpl and you see that the link title attribute has that - in it, remove that.


        "He can have a lollipop any time he wants to. That's what it means to be a programmer."
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        First of all: thank you very much !!!

        whatever you meant by "make those li items render" wink ... I tried here, I tried there and finally choosed to go the radical way and installed everything new (this time your new beta by the way). This solved all minor layout questions. Interestingly the "-" I had already removed them before from the templates but it did not work. Very strange huh

        Now, with the new install all these problems are gone. First IE 7 showed up strange behaviour with the image sizes by displaying the images in different sizes (even though all pictures actually do have the same size of 600 x 371) or by repeating part of the pictures to give them their original size of 600 width. This issue I could solve by adding the &disable_js ... to the snippet call.

        Still remaining with me is this strange problem with the white pixels - due to your advice I deactivated all flash components in the site template as well as all unneccessary stuff in my yaml content.css - nothing

        I even went back to the original photo and controlled if there are any transparent or white pixels (there are none, of course) and saved them anew as jpg, thinking maybe something went wrong during the batch picture processing - nothing

        I updated my IE - nothing

        As far as I know wink I do only have the two scripts "motools" and "drop-down-menu" running in the site template

        Deactivating mootools in the site template - no transparency layer, just a wonderful big picture in the left top corner but without white pixels
        Deactivating also the &disable_js_libs=`1` in the snippet call: transparency layer and white pixels sad

        same results with deactivating drop-down-menu

        Maybe IE has problems with cutting out correctly the transparency mask, biting off too much pixels undecided
        I do not understand how all this stuff works, I just imagine it’s doing something like this ...


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          P.S. Just found this on digitalia.be - seems to be the white noise bug

          Changelog

          * v1.4 (2007-05-21), requires mootools >= 1.1.
          o Updated code for mootools 1.1.
          o Added an option to hide the counter.

          * v1.31 (2007-05-04)
          o Fixed the “white noise” bug occurring in dark areas of JPEG images in Internet Explorer.
          o Visibility of objects (including Flash animations) are now set to their original values when Slimbox is closed, instead of always being set to visible.
          o Re-added the hiding of “embed” tags. It was accidentally removed in v1.3.

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            I actually did also some testing with your site as I was interested what caused those white pixels (saved your site to my comp using scrapbook FF extension).

            But the results with my testing are the same.. I removed everything from the html and css sources except MaxiGallery code and still those white pixels keep coming with IE.. Could you try the lightboxv2 display mode just for fun to see if there’s white pixels also..?

            EDIT: ok... so it’s a bug with slimbox.. MaxiGallery uses Slimbox v1.3. I’ll get it updated for next release.. maybe today.


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              Great, doze, thanks

              I also know now, what caused the strange css behaviour - I tried to adapt your tip to limit the numbers of thumbs but this then called another template, of course, and the machine got mad

              would it be very complicate to build in a call for to limit the numers of thumbs, but to have more pictures in the gallery? kiss
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                Do you mean that it would only show one thumbnail, but all the pictures from the gallery would be in the slimbox picture set? In that case, see this topic. Modify the calls to suit your needs, eg. remove &gal_query_ids parameter and instead of lightboxv2, use slimbox displaymode



                  "He can have a lollipop any time he wants to. That's what it means to be a programmer."
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                  Great job, doze,

                  I installed version 0.5.2 and the white pixels are gone