Hello.

I have the pro version installed and after updating from 1.7.6 to 1.8.1 I've noticed that when dragging (with the mouse) between pictures, now the transition occurs much more rapidly, almost instantly, whereas in the old version the transition was smoother, slower, and gave a more professional aspect when switching between pictures. To me, as a photographer, a little detail like this can alter the general aspect and "feel" of my entire photographic website and thus it can be a really big deal to me. So, please change it back the way it was, or at least give us some controls in the menu to be able to define this aspect.

Also, now when dragging between photos, from time to time a picture gets misaligned on the screen, this happens only in the new version.

I have switched back to 1.7.6. and everything works fine now, but I would like to update and still maintain the same functionality and "feel" when viewing pictures. So, please do something about it.

And another problem that occurs even in the old version, is that your plugin appears to be affecting the Captcha (not reCaptcha) validation procedure, meaning that as long as the plugin is active, even if you type in correctly all the letters, Captcha will give an error saying that the letters are wrong. But after renewing the letters, next time it works fine. I have seen this behavior in my contact form made with Form Maker (WebDorado). But when disabling you plugin all of the sudden this behavior is no longer present and Captcha works fine from the first try. Maybe you should contact them (WebDorado) and work it out what's going on, if it's a bug on their side or yours. What is certain, is that the Fancy Lightbox and Form Maker don't play nice together when it comes to Captcha.

PS: wish your Contact Form 7 was as customizable as WebDorado's.

Hello,

1. We will a new parameter to configure swipe speed in a future version of the plugin. Currently you can change it if open "ARI Fancy Lightbox -> Settings -> Advanced" page and populate "Custom JS code" parameter with the following code:



2. Is it possible to see a problem with misaligned pictures anywhere?

3. Could you provide a link to a page where the problem with Captcha occur?

Regards,
ARI Soft

1. Thank you for your prompt action in solving this. I have installed it, works great.

2. Right now I have reversed to 1.7.6 where it does no longer happen. But with the 1.8.1 version, where it had lots of pictures to display (in an album, using Foo Gallery), I'd say one in 10-15 got misaligned. Not a big deal, but something to keep an eye on, probably a small bug. If I'll switch back to 1.8.1 I'll let you know with a link.

3. No, because I have disabled Captcha because of this very reason, and instead I got reCaptcha v3 which works fine. But you could probably replicate the issue by simply installing WebDorado's Form Maker and activating Captcha.

I have reinstalled 1.8.1, here is the link where you can see the misalignment problem occurring. What I've noticed is that the problem occurs only if you drag the pictures using the mouse, not if you use the mouse's scroll wheel. So, it's something related to the drag function.

But I have to give more details about the album. First, it's using FooGallery, but secondly, and I suspect this is an important aspect, these are not your regular pictures Fancy Lightbox is displaying, but 24 bit, uncompressed PNG files, each 8 Mb in size, taken directly from Google Drive ! Foo Gallery uses the custom links I have made for each picture to serve them to Fancy Lightbox directly from Google Drive, so, in essence, all that is shown from my web hosting service are just the thumbnails, but the full sized images are taken directly from Google Drive.

PS: and by the way, wish you guys (Foo Gallery / Ari) would try to implement this in your software, to automatically generate Google Drive links, because right now, if you want to display images hosted from Google Drive, you have to manually modify all the links, which is kind of a pain in the butt. Check out this article about making Google Drive links. Why this matters ? Well, just take a look at the speed, how seamlessly they load, just like if they were some small compressed JPG files, when in fact, these are huge files. And I have even tested this strategy using 4K uncompressed PNG files, each 30 Mb in size, and still Google Drive did a nice job ! Just imagine what kind of web hosting service you would have to get to be able to serve files this big, this fast. Probably in the dedicated server range.

We will investigate the problem with misaligned images.

About links to Google Drive, could you explain in more details where you change these links? In FooGallery settings?

Regards,
ARI Soft

Yes, in Foo Gallery I have select to use the custom urls I have defined for each image. So, instead of loading the images from my site, it loads them directly from Google Drive. The images are present on my site too (in the form of small JPGs), but their custom urls are pointing to their big PNG versions on Google Drive (as you'll see in my next post).



So, the procedure is like this:

1. I upload a JPG through FooGallery (normal procedure).
2. I define a custom url for that JPG image, url that points to its PNG version situated on Google Drive.

Result: FooGallery dispalys all the thumbnails normally, but when Fany Lightbox is activated it gets the image from the custom url (Google Drive).