Hi,

according to the description, the 'Colorbox' module provides "Excellent integration with [...] Image module". However, I have trouble finding this support, but maybe I haven't understood yet how this module works.

After activating "Image module integration" at ./admin/settings/colorbox, everything it seems to do is to load the (smaller) image derivates provided in the $links section of the node into the colorbox overlay (derivate sizes: e.g. 75px, 150px, etc.); obviously this makes not much sense since the image derivate on the page is larger (e.g. 400px, 640px). I could not, for example, make the image on an image node load a bigger derivate into the colorbox overlay. Also I do not understand the setting "Select which image derivative to load in the Colorbox" - what is it supposed to do?

Used together with Imagefield and Imagecache, Colorbox is capable to load a high-res image derivate into the overlay; however, this is also working in other modules like 'Lightbox2'; loading higher resolution image derivates of images on image nodes produced by the 'Image' module doesn't work in either Lightbox2 nor in Colorbox; probably there's something technical making this impossible. Anyway, clicking on an image in an image node to open an Colorbox overlay with the original size image is the only use scenario I can imagine which would really make sense.

Have I missed any setting? What are other users of 'Image' module doing with the Colorbox module?

Thanks & greetings, -asb

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frjo commented

I have only briefly tested the Image module support myself since I never use that module.

On a local dev site I get a Colorbox when clicking the image size links in the node link section. You can add/change these at "admin/settings/image".

I also get a Colorbox when clicking thumbnails on a gallery page, "image/tid/[gallery_id]". You can see all your galleries on the "image" page.

The "Select which image derivative to load in the Colorbox" setting controls what image size is loaded in the Colorbox when clicking the thumbnails on a gallery page.

Read more in #770424: Image module - image derivative setting, gallery and image attach support .

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asb commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Thank you for the quick overview; yes, on image/tid/[gallery_id] pages, a colorbox opens when clicking on the thumbnail, but it doesn't load a picture.

However, I don't need any of these features, and the features I was looking for are ony working with Imagefields/Imagecache, so I can safely disable this module on my 'Image' module based sites.

Anyway, together with Imagefields/Imagecache the module works great - it loads faster and looks prettier thean Lightbox2 ;)

Greetings, -asb

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frjo commented

Sorry it lacks the feature you where looking for.

Personally I believe Imagefields/Imagecache is a better, more flexible and future proof solution. It's built in to Drupal 7.

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asb commented

Yes and no - e.g. there's no equivalent for image attach (for re-using existing images), embedding imagefield images without WYSIWYG is an obscenity for normal users, galleries need a completely different approach, migration from image module to imagefield-based sites is a pain if even possible etc. Sure Imagefield and especially Imagecache have their own advantages - but the 5.x release of image module supported Imagecache as well, and probably the 6.x release will support it again, too.

However, this is sooo off topic... ;-)

Anyway thanks for the Colorbox module, I really like it together with Imagefields/Imagecache!