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Hotspot functionality missing in latest release.

Fields missing from admin section and current hotspots set up in folderdata.xml are not rendering on front-end.

I believed this was something we were looking at as a custom solution for you. I think it just needs to be enabled as attributes, but let me check it out ...

This is not officially documented yet, but to enable hotspots again, simply goto the Imagevue admin -> config, and at the bottom of the config page attributes -> image, add the following line: That will allow you to add hotspots for images from the admin. For example, adding two hotspots to an image: The code above creates 2 hotspots. The first hotspot starts at coordinates x=50 and y=50 and is 50 pixels in width and height. The second hotspot starts at coordinates x=130 and y=130 and is 100 pixels in width and height.

Also remember the hotspot configuration in the theme config at the very end.

mjau-mjau, can you show some example on demo gallery using hotspot?

Sorry, but I think that may have to wait for now ...

The hotspot module was created for a specific user some time ago, and we haven't had the chance to shine any light on it yet.

Did you try it? ...or perhaps you need an explanation what it's actually for?

mjau-mjau wrote:...or perhaps you need an explanation what it's actually for?

ye

Hotspots allows you to create "hotspots" over an image.

For example, you have an image with 3 different cars, and you want to create a link to individual pages when user clicks any of the three cars. You then create hotspots based on coordinates, and 3 semi-opaque squares will display over the cars when rolling over image. Clicking any of these boxes, will take user to a specific link ...

The result is pretty much identical to using hotspots on images in html if you are familiar with that.

tnx, nice feature )

I think we need a hotspot editor!!!

lowray1975 wrote:I think we need a hotspot editor!!!

hehe yea ... Not before other important features are in place though.

Is there a freeware tool using which you can easily find coordinates of a required hotspot over a particular image?

fishnick wrote:Is there a freeware tool using which you can easily find coordinates of a required hotspot over a particular image?

Yes - I just checked ... Irfanview does a good job of this. Just open an image, and drag a square of the area you want to select. After releasing mouse button, you will get the details in the header ... It will say something like:
(Selection: 231, 103; 96 x 104; 0.923)
which basically means:
(Selection: x1, y1; width x height; aspect)
So you can just fill in those 4 values as hotspot coordinates in Imagevue =)

www.irfanview.com

I'm sorry, but I feel as though I got directions to get somewhere, but the references are not clear to me. For example: I have no idea of where you are telling us to go in this statement below.

mjau-mjau wrote:This is not officially documented yet, but to enable hotspots again, simply goto the Imagevue admin -> config, and at the bottom of the config page attributes -> image, add the following line:

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hotspot_coordinates,hotspot_url

That will allow you to add hotspots for images...

I thought is was perhaps a file in the directory structure ../imagevue/admin and the file was called "config". The extension was omitted, but I thought perhaps it was close enough for me to find it... perhaps and xml file. But, there is no file like that in there, so I have no idea if I'm close or not or my installation has another issue.

So, if you would be so kind, please be a bit more complete in your explanation.

Thanks.

Imagevue Admin > Settings (it was named Config prior to the last release)

pain wrote:Imagevue Admin > Settings (it was named Config prior to the last release)

Okay, thanks. Boy was I way off.

Apparently this capability is for pictures. I was hoping to use it for areas of the screen such as the background.

Any ideas on this?