• Registered: 2012-05-02
  • Posts: 161

Topic: Navigation Bar Disappears When No Info and Mouse Moved Away

I recently noticed what I believe is a minor bug, or a quirk... or at least I don't think this is intentional.

I have several cases in which I have identical (except for the pictures within them) non-embedded galleries, except that:

1) some of the galleries have:
    A) showInfoButton=FALSE
    B) captionBackColor="rgba(0,0,0,0)"
    C) no caption text in any of the pictures

2) while the other galleries have:
    A) showInfoButton=TRUE
    B) caption text in many of the pics;

In the first group of galleries, if you move your mouse outside of the browser frame -- i.e., to the Windows taskbar area or to the browser's menu area (or outside of the browser application itself, if it is not maximized) -- the navigation bar and my home-page icon disappear while the mouse is thus moved. However, for the second group of galleries, such mouse movement has no effect at all, i.e., the navigation bar and home icon remain visible. It is that visibility difference that I am questioning.

Note that both sets of galleries still have focus after moving the mouse out of the browser area. That is, even if the navigation bar is not shown in the "showInfoButton=FALSE" galleries after the mouse is moved, say, to the taskbar area, you can still use the Home, End, and left- and right-arrow keys to look at different images in the loaded gallery.

This is the environment for me:

Juicebox Pro 1.3.3
jAlbum 11.6.4
Vista Home Premium SP2 32-bit SP2

The jAlbum Juicebox settings checked are:

Show Open Button
Show Thumbnails Button
Use Fullscreen Expand
Display Captions

The jAlbum Pro-area options are, with the exception of the two options discussed above:

galleryTitlePosition=NONE
textColor=FFFFFF
imagePreloading=NEXT
imagePadding=10
showImageNav=FALSE
maxThumbColumns=50
showAutoPlayButton=TRUE
showNavButtons=TRUE
showBackButton=TRUE
backButtonText=<a href="http://www.billanddot.com/index.htm" target="_top"><img src="http://www.billanddot.com/house_2.png" width="32" height="32" alt="Home (Bill &amp; Dot's Excellent Pages)"></a>
backButtonUrl=http://www.billanddot.com/
backButtonPosition=OVERLAY
showSplashPage="NEVER"

Two such differing galleries are, for example:

http://www.billanddot.com/burgman/
http://www.billanddot.com/valkyrie/

Tested using the following browsers:

Firefox 25.0.1
IE 9.0.8112.16421
Opera 18.0
Safari (for Windows) 5.1.7

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

Cheers,

Bill P.

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
  • Posts: 5,924

Re: Navigation Bar Disappears When No Info and Mouse Moved Away

When showInfoButton="TRUE", the default behaviour controlling the overlay visibility is disabled and the overlay (except for the Button Bar itself) can be toggled on and off only by clicking on the Info Button.
(This is noted in the description for showInfoButton in the Button Bar Options section of the Config Options page.)
I hope this explains the behavior you have described.

  • Registered: 2012-05-02
  • Posts: 161

Re: Navigation Bar Disappears When No Info and Mouse Moved Away

Thanks for the link. I've just been reading that info a few times, and I guess I understand it. Still seems a little odd to me, though, e.g., when you click the Info "off" on galleries that have the button shown, the navigation overlay is still visible if the mouse is moved off screen. But thanks for the explanation; the software is working as intended, I gather.

Bill P.

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
  • Posts: 5,924

Re: Navigation Bar Disappears When No Info and Mouse Moved Away

when you click the Info "off" on galleries that have the button shown, the navigation overlay is still visible if the mouse is moved off screen.

This should not be the case.
In this gallery of yours (http://www.billanddot.com/burgman/), if 'Info' is OFF and you mouse-out, only the thumbnail navigation buttons (not on the image overlay) and the Button Bar remain visible. (The entire Button Bar will always remain visible when showInfoButton="TRUE".)
Do you have a test gallery which demonstrates the behavior you describe? I'll gladly take a look.

  • Registered: 2012-05-02
  • Posts: 161

Re: Navigation Bar Disappears When No Info and Mouse Moved Away

Steven wrote:

when you click the Info "off" on galleries that have the button shown, the navigation overlay is still visible if the mouse is moved off screen.

This should not be the case.
In this gallery of yours (http://www.billanddot.com/burgman/), if 'Info' is OFF and you mouse-out, only the thumbnail navigation buttons (not on the image overlay) and the Button Bar remain visible. (The entire Button Bar will always remain visible when showInfoButton="TRUE".)
Do you have a test gallery which demonstrates the behavior you describe? I'll gladly take a look.

I think I'm just not using the proper terminology, is all.

What I meant is that I sort of expected that if you have a gallery with showInfoButton=TRUE, and then you click that icon to its Off state, then the navigation bar area -- that thingy with the seven icons in the upper right -- would disappear if you moved the mouse to, say, the taskbar... i.e., exhibit the same behaviour that a gallery does when you'd set showInfoButton=FALSE (whose six-icon navigation thingy disappears on mouse-far-away movement).

That's a long sentence, but does it make my comment any clearer?

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
  • Posts: 5,924

Re: Navigation Bar Disappears When No Info and Mouse Moved Away

that thingy with the seven icons in the upper right

That's the Button Bar.

would disappear if you moved the mouse to, say, the taskbar...

No. If showInfoButton="TRUE", the Button Bar is always visible (whether the user hovers over the gallery or mouses-out).

That's a long sentence, but does it make my comment any clearer?

Yes, thanks. The gallery is behaving as designed (though perhaps not as you expected).