modalbox plugin or similar?

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Hi,

I'm looking for a rails plugin for modalbox Wildbit: Building a people-first business | Wildbit Has anyone ever done something like that?

Do you know of anything similar? I tried redbox but it seems to have a bug which I can't fix. (the overlay doesn't cover the full screen vertically but only a small part of it)

thanks for your help in advance

Marc

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Marc,

I struggled getting Redbox to do a couple of things - one of which was the full screen coverage. I added a line to the javascript to correct this, but have only tested it in the context of my usage which is Firefox only.

Having said that, now I have got Redbox to work, I really like it. It is worth looking at the css and javascript, it is not too complex and helps to get things working nicely. (I also had to add z-index to my autocomplete field to get the dropdown to appear on top of the overlay.

Anyway, as far as getting full screen is concerned, you may like to what I did in the public/javascript/redBox.jss file: In the setOverlaySize function, I aded the notes under APM and the simple condition to reset the overlay height

setOverlaySize: function()   {     if (window.innerHeight && window.scrollMaxY)     {       yScroll = window.innerHeight + window.scrollMaxY;     }     else if (document.body.scrollHeight > document.body.offsetHeight)     { // all but Explorer Mac       yScroll = document.body.scrollHeight;     }     else     { // Explorer Mac...would also work in Explorer 6 Strict, Mozilla and Safari       yScroll = document.body.offsetHeight;     }   // if condition below, added by APM to account for using absolute positioning in my content.   // for some reason, the above calculations don't give a large enough height. It is   // only the size of the banner.   // When the scrollbars appear on the window, then all is ok. This is because then, the first   // option innerHeight+scrollMaxY is used. So I just check below if the height is not enough         // then I reset it to window.innerHeight   if (yScroll < window.innerHeight)         {     yScroll=window.innerHeight //Added by APM   }

    $("RB_overlay").style['height'] = yScroll +"px";   },

hth Tonypm

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MarcS wrote:

Hi,

I'm looking for a rails plugin for modalbox Wildbit: Building a people-first business | Wildbit Has anyone ever done something like that?

Do you know of anything similar? I tried redbox but it seems to have a bug which I can't fix. (the overlay doesn't cover the full screen vertically but only a small part of it)

thanks for your help in advance

Marc

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I'm using Control.Modal successfully(http://livepipe.net/projects/control_modal/). Found it lightweight and easy to use. HTH Chris