A new gallery manager : Album

[zsero]

Gregor,
Hint: try Porta, great freeware program (and tick Simpleviewer as default).
http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/


To all,
BTW, I am simply amazed about porta's HTML album's image caching technique. I haven't seen it elsewhere. Is it possible to implement it into Album? It would be the best thing happened to Album (loading the next image while you are looking at one).

[Dr.CSS]

how come none of the templates for album have the name of the thumb...
can it be done w/o extension?
i see the  {$onepicture->name} will give them a name but it shows the .jpg after...

[Dr.CSS]

OK i think i figured it out...
you need to put the whole thing in one folder with CHMOD set to 777, read/write/execute all checked,
i had only the buildgallery.php in the main with everything else in a folder inside that folder...
download the SimpleViewer, unpack to folder, FTP to your site in uploads folder, with everything in one folder with images folder inside, run the www.yousite.com/thefolder/buildgallery.php, you should see a white page that says gallery build success with the name of the images in a list...
then on the gallery page (in the source view) put :..

SimpleViewer requires Macromedia Flash.  Get Macromedia Flash. If you have Flash installed,  click to view gallery
 
var fo = new FlashObject("viewer.swf", "viewer",
"640", "480", "6", "#181818");  
fo.addParam("quality", "best"); 
fo.write("flashcontent");  

[Russ]

Here is a JavaScript fix for Internet Explorer (replaces your current thickbox.js, which wrongly allowed HTML Form Select Lists to show through the overlaid large image. This fix effectively hides any Form Selects before displaying the image and then un-hides them after the image is closed. You can test it out using the Metal Gallery here:

http://www.cms.shoesforindustry.net/cmsmodules/album/

Sorry about the rather long delay, and I still havn't tried it with the latest Album.

Russ

[Dr.CSS]

did you see my post about the thickbox being used for more than just images...

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 672.0.html

[Elijah Lofgren]

Here is a JavaScript fix for Internet Explorer (replaces your current thickbox.js, which wrongly allowed HTML Form Select Lists to show through the overlaid large image. This fix effectively hides any Form Selects before displaying the image and then un-hides them after the image is closed. You can test it out using the Metal Gallery here:

http://www.cms.shoesforindustry.net/cmsmodules/album/

Sorry about the rather long delay, and I still havn't tried it with the latest Album.

No problem. Thanks for the updated thickbox.js
I've applied it in the SVN version of Album: http://viewsvn.cmsmadesimple.org/viewsv ... m&view=rev

[Russ]

Elijah:
No problems - apologies for the delay

Mark:
Yes, I did see you post, but I was already loading it on every page and not just in the Album template, so that I could use it for other things

Don't foget I think that it is best for accessibility, that you use AJAX to 'enhance' something that would work even if JavaScript were not loaded. The Thickbox JS, pretty much works like this with the images in the Album template, which I think is good.

Russ

[disease]

Question:
is there any way to make Album list paginated?

Thank you...

[pjjg]

Hi everyone,

I need help with image album. Been searching for a simple answer for more then an hr still cant find.

How do I add my {title} in the comment??

I'm planning to use Pats-ImageGallery Template.

Even if I add comment, the Comment is not at the bottom like what we have at image gallery.

Can someone guide me with the coding.

Thanks,
Jeremy

[Russ]

I just downloaded and installed Album 0.6.0. No apparent problems Elijah and I really, really like hidding the stuff from the index page

Very well done, not sure what could be done to improve this it is very flexible!

Russ

[Russ]

Cody has been busy and ThickBox 2 is out...numerous bug fixes and even more funky...
Updated: 2006/08/08:

• ThickBox will resize images that are bigger than the browser window.
• ThickBox will hide form elements in Windows IE 6.
• ThickBox will remain centered in the window even when the user scrolls the page or changes the size of the browser window.
• Clicking an image, the overlay, or close link will remove ThickBox. (I've still styled a button for close though.)
• The ThickBox creator has decided that animation should be tailored by individual authors. So yeah, ThickBox no longer animates. Is this a feature? Well, some might say it is.
• ThickBox offers versatility (images, iframed content, inline content, and AJAX content).

I've adapted the CSS to look the same as before for Album and included the updated thickbox.js file and an uncompressed jquery.js, (because it works with Safari). Please note the required 'html, body' CSS at the top of the CSS file.

Also note I've not inlcuded any Album templates as you can use the ones you are using now.

Last but not least there is a revised loading animtaed GIF file - loadinganimation.gif. To use it, put it somewhere in your site and alter the thickbox.js to point at it. (Look for 'loadinganimation.gif' in the thickbox.js file, line 36'ish and alter the path to where you put the image.)

Elijah, you can download the revised stuff for album here or just try it out :
http://www.cms.shoesforindustry.net/cmsmodules/album/

Hope this helps

Russ

[Dr.CSS]

Russ have you seen this thread http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 672.0.html

[Russ]

Hi Mark, sorry I missed that thread. Anyway people can use it for what they want. I expect you should warn them not to use the compressed javascript file because of the problems.

Russ

[Russ]

Actually Mark I just clicked on your example and, it might be me, but images are not opening as I expected. Rather they are loading below the gallery? They don't fill the screen? This of course maybe what you intended?

Russ

[Dr.CSS]

Russ, I didn't know about the Safari problem thanks for the heads up.

The only one that is set is the 3rd one over and you have to click the Here above the large image.