Do you mean this lightbox? <
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fmw/8514550720/in/photostream/lightbox/>
That is what you get if you click on a Flickr picture (when it is on its
own page). At least I get it and I'm not aware that I ever installed
something to get it?
Just trying to help, best, Frank.
2013/3/1 Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >
> >On 3/1/2013 7:12 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
> > > I'm interested in using Lightbox, but looking for it by way of
> Google
> > > does not produce a downloadable that self-installs. Instead, I get
> links to
> > > all sorts of downloads that require additional downloads to install the
> > > files manually. After what I've gone through for the past couple of
> months
> > > I'm not very interested in hacking my way through another utility.
> > >
> > > So, anyone know of a downloadable for Lightbox that includes an
> install
> > > function?
> >
> > Might you be asking the wrong question? It looks to me that Lightbox IS
> one of
> > those incompletely realized packages that will bring trouble and
> frustration.
> > It's an abandoned, limited version of Sagelight that is not supported
> and won't
> > be updated.
> >
> > Sagelight offers a Lightbox package that is supposed to actually be
> freestanding,
> > if desired, no additional stuff.
> > <http://www.sagelighteditor.com/downloadfree.html>
> >
> > OTOH, as explained above and in the above link, Lightbox doesn't sound
> very
> > attractive, and they promise a new, free, version of Sagelight soon.
> >
> > Why not download and try the full Sagelight for 30 days. If you like it,
> you
> > might even feel like paying the $40 for a registered, supported version.
> If
> > not, you could move on.
> >
> > IF you are trying to avoid troublesome installation and use, why not use
> > something that's known to work? There are a lot of free or very
> inexpensive
> > image editors around. Are you intentionally looking for one especially
> likely
> > to be unsatisfactory?
> >
>
> The Lightbox I'm thinking of is the Java plug-in that I see fairly
> often in many URLs for images on Flickr that is supposed to give you an
> enlargable overlay. I've downloaded that package, but then it requires yet
> another editor of some sort to install it and most of it seems to be lines
> that you add to your home page header file. Without it, when I go to those
> URLs with the "..../lightbox/" at the end I just get a black screen with a
> violet dot in the middle. Then I have to manually delete the
> "..../lightbox/" so I can see the images.
>
> I did download and install the free version of Sagelight (Lightbox)
> this morning, thinking it would install the Java addon, but no. However, I
> do like stated features of the Sagelight viewer/editor and I'm going to
> give it a try every so often.
>
>
>
> >Curious Moose
> >
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