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I’ve moved jquery lightbox’s development from google code to github.com.  I’ve not yet closed down the google code repository, but i’m going to take time this week to clean it up, and direct everything to github.  I’ve had a nice boost of positive feedback in the last week or two, and have some features in mind for development.  I’ll keep progress posted here.

Cheers!

I realized today that there was no Shake function for jQuery, a function I miss from scriptaculous. I did some googling to find a plugin but didn’t find much.  I did end up finding a site that referenced a plugin named shakeit() .   My current google searches turn up nothing, but here’s a slightly modified version of the code:

jQuery.fn.Shake = function(){
     this.each(function(init){
          var jqNode = $(this);
          jqNode.css({position: 'relative'});
          for (var x = 1; x < = 3; x++){
               jqNode.animate({ left: -25 },10)
               .animate({ left: 0 },50)
               .animate({ left: 25 },10)
               .animate({ left: 0 },50);
          }
     });
return this;
}

If anyone knows who’s plugin this is, please leave a comment, so I can give them the credit they deserve.

After a long hiatus, jQuery  Lightbox has been given a much needed push to completion.  Thanks to some help from google code user kkotowicz, we’ve got some new features:

• Multiple instances of lightbox galleries are now allowed
• Added support for navigation bar on top
• Added support for toggling of displaying a title
• Added support for toggling of sliding the navigation bar
• Added a help dialog, that can be toggled
• Added a fit to screen feature
• Removed some custom functions in place of some jQuery equivelents (width/height, destroying elements)
• All strings are now in opts.strings allowing for customization/localization
• Fixed the dreaded IE CSS bugs

On top of that, i’ve made a few tweaks to the animation, which I plan on being an option in 0.6 or 1.0 (if this release works well for all).

I highly recommend that everyone upgrade to this release, as it’s far more feature complete, and feels like a solid product.  As always, please comment with any comments/issues, and they’ll hopefully be worked into the next version.  For now, download jQuery Lightbox 0.5.

Cheers!

A group of people have been submitting issues / fixes via comments and email. Since I don’t get a chance to work on this package very often, I figured the best thing to do would be to open it up to the community.

Last week, I set up a google code project for jQuery Lightbox. I can have an issue tracker, other developers, download management, and full on community SVN for everyone to use. I’ll still post updates to the package on here, but hopefully we can get everyone using it to move over there, and keep it up to date.

You can access the project at http://code.google.com/p/jquery-lightbox/

Cheers!

NOTE: This is an older release.  Version 0.5 has been released, and it acts better as a true jQuery plugin.  It is recommended that you download Version 0.5 to get all of the new improvements.

New in this release:

• Added loading/close images as variables
• Added resize speed variable
• Migrated resize event into one animation, instead of two
• Removed stray console.log() calls
• Fixed updateImageList so more images can be added via AJAX calls

I believe all the bugs in this release should be fixed.  It should operate fine in place of the original lightbox.js without any real problems.  I’d appreciate if you could leave a comment with notes of any problems you have,  so this can be cleared up quickly.

Come and get it!

jquery-lightbox-0.4.zip

Cheers!