Spoton Imaging is an extension module compatible with Joomla 1.5, 1.6, and 1.7

Security patch v3.6: All previous releases should upgrade to version v3.6 or later.

Joomla 1.5:
Spoton Imaging Magnifier, v3.8 (01 Nov 2011)
Spoton Imaging Big Screen, v3.8 (01 Nov 2011)
Spoton Imaging Showtime, v3.8 (01 Nov 2011)
Spoton Imaging Bundle (all products), v3.8 (01 Nov 2011)

Joomla 1.6 & 1.7:
Spoton Imaging Magnifier, v3.8 (01 Nov 2011)
Spoton Imaging Big Screen, v3.8 (01 Nov 2011)
Spoton Imaging Showtime, v3.8 (01 Nov 2011)
Spoton Imaging Bundle (all products), v3.8 (01 Nov 2011)

Spoton Imaging displays images in various presentations; it offers a magnifier, a slideshow, a gallery, and a thumb manager.

-- ‘Magnifier’ tool (based on jQZoom) magnifies images in gallery mode and optionally VirtueMart configured images on product details page (including the ‘additional images’).

-- ‘Showtime’ tool is a lightbox (based on ColorBox) that displays images in a slideshow, and other medium formats such as video via an iFrame.

-- 'Big Screen' tool is a browser-based full screen background slideshow (based on Supersized) for displaying unlimited slide images, including options to display a company logo with URL link, a text area, and up to five artist names with their URL links.

-- themes or skin styles (choose between stack or grid style) provide page presentation for thumbs and their text details, including page navigation for thumbs defined in one of the image file systems.

-- ‘Thumb manager’ tool helps to deal with missing thumbs by providing options to generate new thumbs from their main images and display generic ‘missing thumb’ images when there are no thumbs available. This means that you no longer need to manually create thumbs yourself; simply define your main images and let Thumb manager generate the thumbs (on the fly or permanently) automatically for you.

-- additional functionality include 12 dashboard slots for defining images; two types of image file systems (a 'drop-and-view' file for displaying images quickly, and a configuration 'ini' file for displaying images with accompanying text and HTML attributes for CSS styling); a memory boost setting to help increase memory for generating thumbs from large main images (e.g. 5MB or above); and capability to run jQuery in no-conflict mode.

-- tools come with numerous configurable settings, and can be deployed individually or combined together to create a diverse and entertaining visual environment.

-- module dashboard has been redesigned to enhance the user experience; it includes colour-coded sections for each functionality, an extensive on-line documentation, and makes use of tabs to organise the functional areas.

-- integrates with VirtueMart via a single customised default ‘theme.php’ (files are provided for VirtueMart 1.1.3 to 1.1.9). Once this one-time set-up is complete, no further configuration is required to process VirtueMart configured images on product details pages.

-- free for personal or business use (GPL License).

v3.8 (01 Nov 2011):
- Added language support.
v3.7.1 (11 Oct 2011):
- Bug fix in displaying dashboard images, and message area within Big Screen.
- Changed code to re-use single Big Screen template.
v3.7 (06 Oct 2011):
- Added option to launch Big Screen automatically when navigating directly to a Web page (e.g. Home page), and option to launch in same window.
- Added capability to display story text with each slide within Big Screen.
v3.6.1 (24 Sep 2011):
- Applied security patch (upgrade to this release).
v3.5 (14 Sep 2011):
- Added options left and top buffer spacing for text area on Big Screen.
- Bug fix in deploying Magnifier between Galleria and VirtueMart.
v3.4.1 (13 Sep 2011):
- Switched on parameter to enable HTML tags input via dashboard.
v3.4 (12 Sep 2011):
- Enhanced option for loading CSS styles.
- Bug fix in re-generating square thumbs.
v3.3 (10 Sep 2011):
- Enhanced capability to load multiple module instances.
- Added option to switch jQuery library to help address compatibility issues.
v3.2 (04 Sep 2011):
- Updated to Colorbox 1.3.17 (latest release).
- Separated option 'jQuery no-conflict' from 'Use local jQuery Library'.
- Changed set time limit values to use current set time limit only.
v3.1 (01 Sep 2011):
- Added setting to hide thumb images and pagination controls on a page. This feature enables 'Big Screen' launch button to display on its own.
v3.0 (30 Aug 2011):
- Added Big Screen tool; a browser-based full screen background slideshow (courtesy of Supersized) for displaying unlimited slide images.
- Bug fix in generating thumbs, and clean-up of code.
v2.5 (09 Aug 2011):
- Updated to jQuery 1.6.2 (latest release).
v2.4 (07 Aug 2011):
- Added option to define unlimited images for magnification and slideshow quickly via a 'drop-n-view' file for dropping and viewing images.
- Bug fix in grouping images within a slideshow.
- Updated 'theme.php' files for newly released VirtueMart 1.1.9.
v2.3 (10 Jun 2011):
- Added grid theme (skin) presentation to the gallery.
- Added setting to display images only, text only, or both.
v2.2 (10 May 2011):
- Updated to jQuery 1.6 (latest release).
- Bug fix in div id initialisation.
v2.1 (09 May 2011):
- Bug fix in CSS setting selection.
v2.0 (07 May 2011):
- Added new Showtime lightbox functionality to view various medium formats (courtesy of ColorBox).
- Added Thumb manager to help handle missing thumbs (generate new thumbs, display generic 'missing', 'unknown medium', or 'blank' thumb images). These options are deployed site-wide or optionally at the individual image level.
- Added default page presentation style (skin), including page navigation.
- Extended configuration 'ini' functionality to include Showtime, and new capabilities to pass HTML mark-up, text, and CSS for styling each image.
- Enhanced Spoton Imaging configuration dashboard in Module Manager.
- Bug fix in gallery functionality, and simplified mechanism for updating future JavaScript releases.
v1.2 (01 Apr 2011):
- Added 'theme.php' files for newly released VirtueMart 1.1.8.
- Added configuration notes and updated general documentation.
v1.1 (31 Mar 2011):
- Added option to define unlimited images for magnification via a configuration 'ini' file.
v1.0 (24 Mar 2011):
- First release.