Slideshow customization: no loop and showing "image x of total"

The default setting of slideshow seems to be an automatic loop of all images in an album. I would like to:
- disable loop by default, so that all images in an album are shown only once (e.g. when user starts slideshow at image 4, all images will be shown until the end, and then back from the beginning until image 3;
- show checkbox to enable slideshow loop;
- show the "status" of the slideshow in the slideshow window, e.g. "image 3 of 20" or something. I tried to put the "navigator" block in the slideshow.tpl, but that didn't work.

Thanks for any hints ...

In addition to valiant's direction, try this site's new Feature Voting system to vote for the "[G2] Set general slideshow-options in siteadministration" if you'd like to see the ability to control looping in your Gallery added to the admin interface.

Not that I'm trying to influence voting

Since this functionality didn't seem to exist, I modified the slideshow module with additional functionality:

- by default, "loop" is disabled. A user starting slideshow at image 5, will be shown all images in the album, going back to the beginning, and ending again at picture 5.
- a checkbox "loop" is added, where user can enable the loop function. When unchecked again (after all images in album have been shown), the slideshow will stop at the current image.
- the "navigator" is added: "< previous" will do exactly that ("back one image" in old slidshow); "next >" will allow user to go quickly to the next image; and user will always see where she is in the album (e.g. 5 of 23);
- slideshow is integrated in overall site template;
- breadcrumb is added on slideshow page;
- identical lay-out / look & feel between photo page and slideshow page;
- I disabled the fancy transitions (for some browsers only), which only distract from the photo.

To see it in action: http://www.mir-w-art.org/photos/v/
(it's in french, but straigthforward to navigate; only this: "Lancer un diaporama" = "launch slideshow")

If anybody is interested, I can post the updated slideshow.tpl and .css (based on Siriux) somewhere (where?).

[edit]links added in post below

Warren, thanks for confirming this problem. I was already working on it, and I think this happened because when the first loop ends, it takes more time loading the new page (the photo.tpl one) than continuing the script... This only happens when you choose a "high speed". For me, the problem only occured at 1 second. Can you let me know at what slideshow speed this happened for you?
Anyway, I modified the script (after the call to the new page, I immediately set the speed @ 10 seconds, this should give the webserver & browser "enough" time to load the new page), and now it's working (FF & IE6). Could you also test again? Thanks.

thanks. i'll clean up the code a bit and attach the files later.

hiya,

this is exactly what I'm looking to do - your zip file appears to be corrupt though

cheers - duly voted for
could I ask how you acheived your "Lancer un diaporama" link without showing any of the links to the other blocks ith the same user permissions

after some more trying, I found the right syntax to only display the "View slideshow" link:

{if ($theme.itemLinks)}
	{* Item Links (slideshow only) *}
	{foreach from=$theme.itemLinks item=item}
	{if $item.moduleId == "slideshow"}
	    <a href="{g->url params=$item.params}" class="slideshowlink">{$item.text}</a>
	{/if}
	{/foreach}
{/if}

short answer: in the album.tpl and/or photo.tpl files.

(certainly not in any .inc file).

longer answer: it depends on the theme and on what modifications you made already. Wherever the Item Links are shown, you can put the call in this if-statement. But watch out, when logged in, you need somewhere a full list of all the Itemlinks ("edit album", "delete photo", ...). If there is only one call to the itemlinks, you can do something like this:

 
{if $user.isRegisteredUser}
	{g->theme include="itemLinks.tpl"}
{else}
   {if ($theme.itemLinks)}
	{* Item Links (slideshow only) *}
	{foreach from=$theme.itemLinks item=item}
	{if $item.moduleId == "slideshow"}
	    <a href="{g->url params=$item.params}" class="slideshowlink">{$item.text}</a>
	{/if}
	{/foreach}
   {/if}
{/if}

pinguin, with matrix and hybrid theme, you'll have to edit (or put copy in /local) the ItemLinks.tpl file you can find in \modules\core\templates\blocks\
(and not the album.tpl file; that's only in case you use siriux theme and its derivatives)

I modified the file to not show the slideshow link when there are no photos in the album, but only sub-albums.
you can find the file here.

In the meantime I found out, that there is a difference between a logged in user and none. If a user is logged in, it is the line under comment and other editing tasks on the left side. If no user is logged in, all "links" on the left side are gone, but the line stays.

well, this only works for the normal slideshow module, not the fullscreen version (which I don't have installed). you'll have to check what the moduleId is of that module (you'll find this if you switch on the buffered debug mode), and change this line of code:

	{if $link.moduleId == "slideshow"}

into something like this:

	{if ($link.moduleId == "slideshow") || ($link.moduleId == "__fullscreenslideshow__")}

and replace __fullscreenslideshow__ with the real moduleId.

Hi Peter -- thanks VERY much for this slideshow module which I've wished for for some time. A question: when I call the slideshow from either the photo page or the album page and I let it terminate naturally (not clicking STOP), then after the last image displays it returns to the root album (Gallery front page) rather than either the album or the photo. Do you get the same results? I'm using the G1 theme if that makes any difference.

Since Gallery2 changed the way those links are included (they're just a block as far as the theme's template is concerned), here's a modification to the slideshow code that does the same thing:

Index: module.inc
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/gallery/gallery2/modules/slideshow/module.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -r1.36 module.inc
65a66,72
> $containsNonAlbums = false;
> foreach ($items as $item) {
> if (!$item->getCanContainChildren()) {
> $containsNonAlbums = true;
> break;
> }
> }
68c75
< if (isset($wantsDetailedLinks[$itemId])) {
---
> if (isset($wantsDetailedLinks[$itemId]) && $containsNonAlbums) {

anybody managed to change the language files for this really great and needed modification yet? don´t ask me.. i have no idea
tanks a lot peter_k

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. Anybody helps 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.

Ok, works for me on gallery 2.2.1
but only works for the normal slideshow

This patch doesn't works with the module slideshowapplet
why ?

This isn't working for me - I'm using Gallery version = 2.3-svn core 1.2.24
I guess things have changed too much.
Any ideas?