[ScrapOrchard]

So, as a web designer, I pretty much hate, hate, hate xCart's default pop-up detailed image viewer, can we say ICK!? So I had purchased a really cool dynamic image mod, with a pretty neat shadow box. Unfortunately, the mod just didn't work for our needs (we use our product images for marketing a lot and the mod didn't have/use direct links to the images). Anywho, I was complain.. ahem, talking with Steve (cflsystems.com) who along with Bill (alteredcart.com) who have seriously have been invaluable.. he advise that the newest version of xCart had a built in Colorbox (which, weeee, is so much sexier than lightbox or shadowbox). We seriously *just* push 4.3.2 to production and there is no way in hell I am ever going to upgrade again.. hehehe!

So I asked Mr. Steve, how hard would it be to install colobox for 4.3.2 and he advised it would probably be pretty simple. So last night I did some comparisons, and was able to get it installed (yay!) (well I haven't checked how it looks/works on a Windows machine but I will test that later today at work...ehehehe!) but I have run into a couple problems.

I did email Mr. Steve, but honestly, he has *got* to be tired of hearing from me I swear I talk to him more on a daily basis than I do my own Mom (and I *live* with her!).

So I thought I would just post and see if anyone has any solutions or suggestions to resolve a couple issues I ran into with Colorbox:

1. When I modified the code to implement Colorbox, I lost the mouseover/image swap between the main and detailed product images... anyone know how to get that back?

2. Anyone know why the box kind of disappears/flickers between navigating to the next image?

3. Anyone know why the opacity of the overlay background is so low? I used the css and images for Example 1 on the Colorbox website... but my overlay background is not as dark as in the example.


Anywho, thank you in advance for any direction you can give me!