Hi,

I saw the new image field in j2.5 and was wondering if you are already playing around with it. More specific, would we be able to use ari sexy lightbox with the image field (for intro and full text), and also are you planning to make ari sexy thumbnails work with the new image field.

Any insight would be much appreciated

Hello,

Could you provide more details about an image field? Probably provide a screenshot where we can see it.

Regards,
ARI Soft

Of course, have a look here for example: www.themepartner.com/blog/71/joomla-25-new-features-made-visual-screenshots/ (scroll down), or here: community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1533-new-features-in-joomla-25.html.

You have to enable this feature first by going to article manager-options-and then second tab editing layout and enable it: www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/joomla25/, point 11.

Now that is all fine but only yet supported by beez. I have tried (a bit) to get sexy lightbox working on that field, but no luck so far.

The second relevant change for lightboxes/thumbnails is this: github.com/joomla/joomla-platform/pull/427. That is beyond me:), but i do understand that there is finally a joomla out of the box way to generate thumbs. The less you have to add the better, so i am guessing that you could use that class to generate thumbs for all your extensions.

I think that with the image field and the possibility of generating thumbs natively in j2.5 editing an article could become a lot easier for users, a bit like with a cck, without having to resort and rely on any cck and just sticking to com_content.

Sorry, is a short a possible:)

"ARI Sexy Thumbnails" plugin generates thumbnails automatically for resized images in articles. About new image fields, thank you for your idea, we will think about implementation this feature in a future release.

Regards,
ARI Soft

Thanks for your replies and i hope to see something very practical coming up.

Since i guess it would need some new overrides and maybe even use of the new joomla native thumbnail class (all in all a different way of handling article images), it would be in my opinion not more than normal to make it a new product, which i would certainly buy. Keep up the great stuff:)