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So, I would love to have a textpage that wasn't a page at all, but instead worked just like the the preview images and descriptions work for folders. Essentially, hovering over the textpage name would flyout the textpage, but clicking on it wouldn't do anything (or this could be an option). OR, I could get the same effect with a setting on image folders that allowed me to hide the image count, but I would still need a way to disable being able to click on it...

See screenshots for a little more clarity...

I want this...


Here...

Oh remind me too something I wanted to ask :
Is there a way to level the OPACITY of the folder/menu description that pop-up when mouse rollover ? The same way we ahve for the menu settings ?

Probably we could disable clicking if no page content is set, thus only showing descriptions, but i'm not sure that idea is that good.

jhamrick wrote:So, I would love to have a textpage that wasn't a page at all, but instead worked just like the the preview images and descriptions work for folders. Essentially, hovering over the textpage name would flyout the textpage, but clicking on it wouldn't do anything (or this could be an option). OR, I could get the same effect with a setting on image folders that allowed me to hide the image count, but I would still need a way to disable being able to click on it...

You CAN actually create this effect by adding your text/code to the description for the textpage. Then it will display on rollover the item. However, it will be clickable of course, which I don't find a huge problem - Visitors might find it annoying that some of the buttons are not clickable. In worst case scenario, you would have the same content in the page as you have in the tooltip, and I doubt that will be a huge annoyance for visitors. I'll keep it in the back of my mind.

nz-photo wrote:Oh remind me too something I wanted to ask :
Is there a way to level the OPACITY of the folder/menu description that pop-up when mouse rollover ? The same way we have for the menu settings ?

To be honest, I left that out. After trying it out in different combinations with opacity, I took the decision to leave it out simply because it didn't look that great with opacity. The text is less clear, often hard to read - Especially when the main image is visible behind. Also, when shadow is enabled, the effect simply looks wrong. We are in a period where we are trying to cut down on the settings, so we will leave it like this for now.

Hi Karl !
Thanks for the answer.
I do understand, and I do beleive with some clear opacity it wouldn't be that nice and readable.
Anyway, purpose was to standardize the whole theme as i use some slight opacity changes all over the site (menu, textpages etc...) it just would have been nice as an option...
Maybe when all would be released...

mjau-mjau wrote:

jhamrick wrote:So, I would love to have a textpage that wasn't a page at all, but instead worked just like the the preview images and descriptions work for folders. Essentially, hovering over the textpage name would flyout the textpage, but clicking on it wouldn't do anything (or this could be an option). OR, I could get the same effect with a setting on image folders that allowed me to hide the image count, but I would still need a way to disable being able to click on it...

You CAN actually create this effect by adding your text/code to the description for the textpage. Then it will display on rollover the item. However, it will be clickable of course, which I don't find a huge problem - Visitors might find it annoying that some of the buttons are not clickable. In worst case scenario, you would have the same content in the page as you have in the tooltip, and I doubt that will be a huge annoyance for visitors. I'll keep it in the back of my mind.

This would be totally fine with me but I found a problem... The pagepreview box for text pages is a different size than it is for image folders and I don't see a way to change it. I just want it to be the same size as my image previews...

See screens...

Too small...


Just right...


No way to change?

I think it may get its size from the thumbnail size as far as you checked the image preview option...

You are showing the options for the textpage module, yet when it displays on rollover, it is not using the textpage module, it is using the folder description module that displays on rollover on main menu. It gets its info from the "description" attribute, and uses the settings from folder description module. Folder description have nothing to do with textpage settings!

Textfields in the description are the same size, but for some of the folders that have previewimage, the entire area will increase in width when the previewimage has loaded. I don't see why you want your textpage to display exactly the same anyway, as that will be misleading to visitors as they may think there are photos in the folder.

Perhaps you should put all the text UNDER the image instead, not wrapping it around the image? You could achive that using the <textformat> settings as indicated in the textpages article:
https://www.photo.gallery/v2docs/articles/textpages/

You could increase the width of the textfield with mainmenu.folderdescription.maxwidth but I don't think it will solve your issue.