Hello,
it seems the lightbox feature works in item full view. In category lists there is always a link to that full view. Can this be changed?

I would need a lightbox on the first image in category list view. The link to full view could b done with the readmore...

A dream would be an option for toggling this behavior :-) I remember the Joomla plugin MultiThunb, where you have the choice between: do nothing; link to fullview; open in lightbox.

TIA!!! !!!

(a temporary hack or override? is welcome, too)

HACK or OVERRIDE

I am not a coder ;-) call me "copier and paster"
I tried to compare the templates item.php and category_item.php by myself. I found the important parts in the well-commented source and with help of firebug.

I can´t paste code here, right? I will try to describe the process:

Look for "Item Image" section... in item.php
Copy the whole A-tag of the SPAN CLASS "itemImage" from item.php

Look for "Item Image" section... in category_item.php
Paste or better replace the original A-tag after SPAN CLASS "catItemImage"

ATTENTION
I found one minor difference in both files. This command is written in two different ways:
php echo $this->item->image
php echo $this->item->$image

I seems to work in the original item.php
but in category_item.php it is used with $

Maybe this is not a real bug and both syntaxes are right in PHP, i don´t know.
Please correct me if this is wrong.

Anyway, it works beautifully.

Since this is more an Override, it would be great to have this as a BUILD-IN FEATURE with a TOGGLE PARAMETER.

Thank you, copier and paster.

For others:
just change in the category_item.php around a line 115
a href="%3C?php%20echo%20$this-">item->link; ?>" title="">

for

a class="modal" href="%3C?php%20echo%20$this-">item->imageXLarge; ?>" title="">

In category_item.php in line 117 change in tag <a> this