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I've just noticed this project and I'm curious what differentiates it from simply using Views Slideshow with Colorbox (or with Image Zoom or Cloud Zoom or any other image plugin). Does it offer some additional features?
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Comment #1
duckzland commentedDifferences with view slideshow : this is a field formatter type module while view slideshow tends to fetch a single field value with multiple nodes, this module fetch multiple field values per single node
As for cloud zoom and colorbox, this module combines both of them and added a configuration GUI.
Comment #2
stan turyn commented"...for cloud zoom and colorbox, this module combines both of them" - this is potentially very promising, Magento has it (although Magento's implementation is meh), doing zoom on hover and pop-up on click. The trick here is to implement the pop-up as true full screen (similar to G+ and Facebook).
"this module fetch multiple field values per single node" - how would you go about solving an issue of multiple products (with potentially their own multiple images) within a single product display? The good thing about using something like Views for this is that one can use image thumbnails to change the main picture (hover or click) displaying thumbs from all back-end products at once, while current straightforward DC implementation only offers a rather unsatisfactory drop-down/radio button to change to the corresponding image. If your module implements (or will) image thumbs for multiple back-end products in a single display, that would be tremendous!
Comment #3
duckzland commentedDC standard behavior is to use a select box to change different product within a single display.
To use multiple image per product, put the image field in the products and when one change the select box to a different product, DC will change the fields of that different product and this module will format the field accordingly.
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duckzland commentedComment #5
johnvSo, this module is a Commerce add-on? I'll investigate that.
ITMT, it looks a lot like Gallery Formatter, which is a field formatter, to, supported Colorbox, infinite slider, a.o.
Comment #6
duckzland commentedin technical terms, yes this is a "gallery" type modules but the focus is more about formatting images for use with e-commerce which can be commerce or ubercart rather than creating an picture gallery.