Media/Styles modules support?

I have created a very small module and sandboxed it at: http://drupal.org/sandbox/kmadel/1084984

Basically, it is just a new D7 custom file formatter. All file formatters are exposed to Media entity file fields. So, for example, if you go to the 'Image media type settings' page (/config/media/types/manage/image/display/media_preview) and then select the 'Preview' display, you will now have a 'Colorbox file' formatter that you can select for the file field. It works pretty much the same way as the Colorbox image formatter does on node entities.

Let me know if you check it out, and I will be happy to add enhancements. By the way, currently it is only set up to work with the Image entity, and will only generate a standard file link for other entity types. I plan on adding support for video next.

I'm somewhat new to drupal, and not sure how to access "sandbox projects" such as the one listed above.

What kmadel's module/patch does completely makes sense to me, and I'm trying to use colorbox to display videos on my Drupal 7 site. It sounds like it works, but I'm unclear as to how to install it.

Hi:

Thanks Kmadel for sharing this with us!
I've tried your module with last dev version of media module (april 25th) and I get the following error when viewing the page that contains the media field:

I've follow this steps:
- Configure small display mode of image media type to use color box
- Add a media asset field to a test content type
- Configure this media field to use the small format
- Create a node and add a media item to it
- View the node

Then I get the former error and no image is shownn.

Perhaps there is a change in the media module or have I done something wrong?

Another question: Have you and frjo considered adding this as to colorbox module as a patch? I think colorbox is going to need media integration in the near future so...

Thanks.-

Great job, kmadel. Have you though of integrating this module with Colorbox? It might be more useful than creating a separate project.

@neurojavi: Could you please let me know how you made this work? Because once I upgrade the Media module, do the database update, I see the "manage file display" just like you do. However, there is no "colorbox" option in the list.

I am using Colorbox-7.x-beta4.

As I've stated in the previous comments this is working fine.

@kmadel: Styles is not a dependenciy for media module anymore and your module seems to work without it too so I think styles dependency can be removes from colorbox_file. Am I right?

@frjo: Do you think this module can be merged to or includen in colorbox?

i have done everything what is describes in #12, but when i submit the video, I'm getting the following error:
Undefined index: #object in media_browser_plus_preprocess_media_thumbnail()

Anyone has the same error or fix?

Hi all
the module at #3 combined with the procedure at #12 works. But the prev/next function in colorbox doesn't work (anymore).
Any hint?

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Yes, it is not set up to support video yet - only images at this point.

At one point, there were comments in the Colorbox issue queue that stated this wasn't something they were interested in adding.

FWIW I too think that having colorbox working on other File types and not only Image fields would be a good thing, this way modules like media_gallery could rely on the great colorbox module itself without duplicating stuff.

Maybe some coordination with "media" developers is needed to figure out what the best way to implement this is.

To make #3 work, you need to make a change : in colorbox_file_theme(), replace 'file' with 'image', in colorbox_file_field_formatter_view() replace ''#file' => (object) $item,' with ''#image' => (object) $item,' and in theme_file_colorbox(), replace '$file = $variables['file'];' with '$file = $variables['image'];'. It seems that 'file' is now a reserved variable.

Also see #1283174: Official release of Colorbox_File, or integration into Colorbox. I hope there might be some communication with the two maintainers here to see if there may be a way to either roll the sandbox module into the Colorbox module, once the kinks have been worked out.

Hi, I just posted #1296186: Complete rewrite of the module, a complete rewrite of the colorbox_file module which integrates well with Media, you might want to have a look at it.

This is a clean one which is supporting to the media field.

Setting this back to active for the time being.

@heshan.lk and @jide Could any of you do a recap on this issue, so it is obvious what needs to be done about it?

Colorbox should not have support for the deprecated media field, but if any of you have a patch that supports core file field, that could be included.

I could make the colorbox appear now, but it fails to load the video.
I get the message: This content failed to load.
Any clue?