To assure - independent of specific layouts - that a lightbox show always appears completely overlaying the browser-window a “directHTML”-object has to be embedded in the desired page. You can use i-frames to display all kinds of picture shows with much less effort, but this also is a nifty method:

The auto-embed functions of those programs grab “from the outside” so to speak into the already created DFM2HTML code. The DFM2HTML-editor overwrites those code changes everytime the document has been altered and newly published. The lightbox will not be displayed anymore despite the directories are still there.

To get started I recommend you download one freeware software here http://visuallightbox.com/ - download

First of all a „standalone“ diashow has to be created and stored in a local directory.

I’m not showing every single step cos especially this particular program is selfexplanatory, just the last step dealing with storing. It is possible – in case there’s a need of embedding more than one show into a certain page -

to define different names (such as “flies.html” or “sandart.html”), with the possibility to insert different directHTML-objects, because the corresponding directories and the references in the html-code are created with the same names.

My tip: If you set up your picture quality too high the amount of data is respective. Normally a value of 90 is good for thumbnails and 50 sufficiant for the templates.

In this example the directories and have been created.

Open one of the html-files with an editor “WordPad-MFC” or similar. There you see the following: (okay, its not colored)

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<head>

<title>Flies generated by VisualLightBox.com</title>

</head>

<a class="vlb" href="http://visuallightbox.com">javascript slideshow code by VisualLightBox.com v5.4</a>

</div>

</body>

</html>

</body>

</html>

Now the red colored code-snippets (easy to find between the blue colored lines) have to be copied into a new text-file and stored as “directHTML-code1” in your project directory, for example. This has to be done with every new show since these snippets are particular for this one show.

<a class="vlb" href="http://visuallightbox.com">javascript slideshow code by VisualLightBox.com v5.4</a>

</div>

Now open a new or an existing dfm-document and choose the page in which you want the lightbox-show to appear. Embed a page-object of the desired size and insert a directHTML-object which again has to be set to the appropriate size in order to fit “your” thumbnail configuration set while creating the standalone lightbox-show. If the directHTML object exceeds the size of its displaying page-object a vertical scrollbar is generated. (if you’re not defining this size also a horizontal scrollbar will show up and that’s kind of annoying...) In its HTML-Tab insert the code-snippets from the previous step.

If necessary repeat this for another show.

The blue frame shows the embedded directHTML-object.

(Always keep in mind that „liquid“ main-pages which belong to a page-control-object will not generate scrollbars and another “child”-page has to be inserted in order to achieve scrolling)

Subsequently all directories holding the data for the lightboxes – here “Flies_files” and “sandart_files” – have to be copied into the websites’ directory as shown here.

In rare cases it can happen that errors appear in displaying the homepage when other scripts have been embedded too. In this case you have to make a decision of what is of more importance. But, as mentioned above, there’s always the possibility of using i-frames....