Change slideshow defaults

As of right now, the defaults for slideshows are rather strange. The default size is the thumbnail and the default time to display is 15 seconds.

How can I change the default size to 640x480 and the time to 3 seconds?

Those changes make the select boxes reflect the desired defaults, but we're not quite there yet. It appears there is Javascript? that needs to be changed as well .. as the pictures are still the same size (thumbs) and the timing is still 15 seconds.

thanks for this. Saved me quite a bit of time with same problem.

I agree that the default values are very strange. Nobody wants to wait 15sec. for the next picture and visitors get confused while nothing happens.

Also I think, that the minimum resolution today is 1024x768. Why not define this as default value?

to Robert:
I've been trying the same thing and I've found a ploblem...

if you put bShowText to 1, it will work on firefox only if you make also this change:

but I saw that the first change makes that IE always pauses the slide because of the line 83...
everithing happens like if it doesn't understand this line and stops there witout reading lines 84 and 85...
the following code will make IE pass trough the bug and continue the slideshow but it will not show the text...

For now I stop here, for the next times I will try to find why ie bugs with this line 83...
hope it can help...
tmaes

lixuefeng----
YES, cheers;~)
----best wishes, Robert

It says at the top of the file that you should customise a version of this file in a directory called local, so it doesn't get overwritten.

Should I make this directory inside the slideshow directory, or in the modules directory or...

I'm asking because I'm back doing this for a second time after upgrading!

Thanks
Edward

thank your tip, it is useful for me too

<Any suggestions?>
Might be clearer for you work on a much
smaller album slideview - say 4 images max!

Make a separate (test) album consisting of just 4 images...
Then you or others might be able to see the wood for the trees:~)
At the moment it seems like the image compiling is taking time.
Whether it's a code problem or your host is too slow is not clear.

You could try checking out why you're seemingly
downloading and not slideviewing the images.
Also check the url_rewrite stuff too? I can't
make head nor tail out of what your embedded
URL calls are doing;~/ No wonder nothing works.

Just do a source view (Firefox), it looks weird.

Or using M$IE... well that 'stuff' down in the little
status bar is certainly wrong. Perhaps you should
look at whatever it is you've done with some Smarty
commands. Smarty should be rendered/compiled and
not appear in the status line! You've messed up
the code somewhere - need more care I expect;~)

What I mean is that you shouldn't see Smarty stuff appearing
in the Status Bar, the obvious inference from this is that
you've messed up the code in your edits/amendments. Probably
a missing } or something. Hence the 'more care'... ;~)

My apologies - I had the wrong url from my home page and forgot to change it. The slideshow does work when I revert it back to 320px and 15 sec. So I tried to change it to 3 seconds and 640px one more time from the beginning with the same bad results. Since I didn't change any smarty tags other than the above (the 2nd and 4th posts) and those don't seem to have any missing "}" or anything else, I can only assume that my host (a cheap one) just can't handle it for some reason, it's a bug, or I'm not catching the error. So I reverted it to 320px, 15 secs default (ugghh). I'm attaching my adjusted Slideshow.tpl file in the hope that I'm just missing something and it actually will work. Thanks for looking.

If you do want to default to 3s and 640pix make the changes as below...

old
  var image = new Image(), timer, iDelay = 15000, iDir = 1, iSize = 0;
new
  var image = new Image(), timer, iDelay = 3000, iDir = 1, iSize = 1;

old
      <option value="1">{g->text text="1 seconds"}</option>
      <option value="3">{g->text text="3 seconds"}</option>
      <option value="5">{g->text text="5 seconds"}</option>
      <option value="10">{g->text text="10 seconds"}</option>
      <option selected="selected" value="15">{g->text text="15 seconds"}</option>
      <option value="20">{g->text text="20 seconds"}</option>
new 
      <option value="1">{g->text text="1 seconds"}</option>
      <option selected="selected" value="3">{g->text text="3 seconds"}</option>
      <option value="5">{g->text text="5 seconds"}</option>
      <option value="10">{g->text text="10 seconds"}</option>
      <option value="15">{g->text text="15 seconds"}</option>
      <option value="20">{g->text text="20 seconds"}</option>

old
      <option value="0">{g->text text="320x320"}</option>
      <option value="1">{g->text text="640x640"}</option>
      <option value="2">{g->text text="800x800"}</option>
      <option value="3">{g->text text="1024x1024"}</option>
      <option value="4">{g->text text="1280x1280"}</option>
      <option value="5">{g->text text="no limit"}</option>
new
      <option value="0">{g->text text="320x320"}</option>
      <option selected="selected" value="1">{g->text text="640x640"}</option>
      <option value="2">{g->text text="800x800"}</option>
      <option value="3">{g->text text="1024x1024"}</option>
      <option value="4">{g->text text="1280x1280"}</option>
      <option value="5">{g->text text="no limit"}</option>

...though not sure about that size change in the very
last bit as I don't give my viewers a choice in size;~)

I start using Gallery 2 nowadays and find it great. However, I want to modify the NavBar for the photo page such that it has the form

<left>First Previous</left> <middle>Slideshow</middle> <right>Next Last</right>

and I need help on that. I am not sure if this is the correct forum to ask, but could anybody help me to make such a modification? Thank you.

Currently, I am using the matrix theme, but I believe that the modification can be done similarly for other themes as well.

Also I want to prevent slideshow to start a new window/tab.

Thanks

So.. anyway, back to the Default Slideshow Question... is there a more elegant way of defaulting to 'RANDOM' other than changing the header.tpl?

eg. A simple php Code that I don't know that will "Select Option 15" of id='filter' from the start of the Slideshow.

PS> Thanx for the above suggestions, It's so much nicer having the Images Centered, Larger, 5sec delay with Random Transitions, and More Info displayed.

@unrevealable: You're probably beyond this now, but I had this problem before changing the var line above. Once I did that it functioned as expected.

That last change posted by jkuruppu did not work for me (gallery 2.2.4), but the original version of the change and all the other changes worked. Thanks!

Hello,

I've Gallery2 2.3 full, all work, but i don't know how can I change the default time between 2 pictures in the slideshow.
Defaut settings :10sec, and i need 3sec.
I use PicLens Diaporama Version 1.3.1.14221.
gallery2\modules\slideshow\

You can see my work : http://www.johnnyhapache.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=14

Thanks for your help.

Thanks !