"Recreate thumbnails and resizes" problem and more

peacherwu

Joined: 2005-01-04
Posts: 3
Posted: Tue, 2005-01-04 08:04

First off, I am a newbie to Gallery2. I have two problems:

problem #1
a weird setting problem:
when I checked the checkbox of "Recreate thumbnails" and/or "Recreate resized images" in Edit Album -> Album Basics and then saved it, the response is "Setting saved sucessfully". But the checkboxes were immediately unchecked. All other changes but this one can be saved. And I have never succeeded in creating resized images as yet.

I need the resizing feature because some of my images are very large: 28MB in TIFF format. I want to create some smaller images (better in jpg) to display when thumbnails are clicked but still want raw tif images be downloaded (either using cart or "save target as"). Is that doable?

Both ImageMagick and NetPBM are activated and have passed the test.

Problem #2
The only problem I had with modules is the Thumbnail Manager, which was covered in another thread "ERROR_MISSING_OBJECT" when I tried to activate it. But the fix rev 1.21 of module.inc didn't fix it and right now the module setup page is showing "Incompatible module!
Core API Required: 1.0 (available: 0.8) " and the two links "Activate" and "Uninstall" on the right column have disappeared.

Thanks for your help.
-peacher


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bharat
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Joined: 2002-05-21
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Posted: Tue, 2005-01-04 21:23
peacherwu wrote:
First off, I am a newbie to Gallery2. I have two problems:

problem #1
a weird setting problem:
when I checked the checkbox of "Recreate thumbnails" and/or "Recreate resized images" in Edit Album -> Album Basics and then saved it, the response is "Setting saved sucessfully". But the checkboxes were immediately unchecked. All other changes but this one can be saved. And I have never succeeded in creating resized images as yet.

I need the resizing feature because some of my images are very large: 28MB in TIFF format. I want to create some smaller images (better in jpg) to display when thumbnails are clicked but still want raw tif images be downloaded (either using cart or "save target as"). Is that doable?

The checkboxes are a bad UI. They just let you force a rebuild all the thumbs and resizes when you make a change. If you want to create more resizes, you need to specify their sizes in the "Thumbnail" and "Resized Images" section on that page.

peacherwu wrote:
Problem #2
The only problem I had with modules is the Thumbnail Manager, which was covered in another thread "ERROR_MISSING_OBJECT" when I tried to activate it. But the fix rev 1.21 of module.inc didn't fix it and right now the module setup page is showing "Incompatible module!
Core API Required: 1.0 (available: 0.8) " and the two links "Activate" and "Uninstall" on the right column have disappeared.

The version of the module you upgraded to requires a newer version of the core. Your best bet is to just rev all of G2 to the latest nightly snapshot. That should fix it. If you still have problems, uninstall the thumbnail manager module via the web interface and reinstall it.