Hybrid theme: how 'Add Comment' from photo page?

Hi, I love the Hybrid theme but can't see how to add a comment to a photo from the photo page. Thanks for any help with this.

Thanks; most of my viewers have told me they're not ready to add a comment from just viewing the thumbnail and need to see the larger picture. So I might have to learn a little PHP and modify this baby myself. Not sure where to fit an 'Add Comment' since the title occupies the bulk of that bottom title bar. Any thoughts about this? I guess my preferred solution would be a button near one of the groups of buttons on the left or right.

Is this all in PHOTO.TPL?

The thing I really appreciate about this theme is how the photo dynamically expands to fit the screen.

Thanks; I'll take a look.

I'd also like to make another change for viewing photos: when 'Hide text' is On I'd like to show the Summary rather than the Title. Would that be possible? And if so would the code also be in PHOTO.TPL? Thanks much.

Thanks VERY much. I'm trying to get the summary to display in the photo page where currently the title displays. After changing $theme.item.title and $it.title, now I DO get the summary where the title used to display at the bottom of the Photo page, but I'm ALSO getting the summary displaying where the title used to display in the ALBUM page as well (so it displays twice).

Any way to get the summary-in-the-title field to be only for the photo page?

Sorry to bother you with this, but I really like this theme. Thanks for any help.

FANTASTIC! Thank you immensely. Works perfectly. One more thing I'd like to accomplish: I'd like to use a smaller font for this new 'Summary' text on the title bar, such as what's used for the Summary text on the album page. Might you be able to point me in the right direction for that?

I certainly will post a link to my Gallery when I get this done. The project that is most important to me is to get an Add Comment icon down there on the right side of the title bar. That's my task for the next couple of days. I'm a SQL programmer and I should be able to get the hang of PHP fairly quickly (fingers crossed).

Your help is most appreciated.

Thanks much--I inserted a font-size and font-weight setting and it looks pretty good. I was hoping to mirror exactly the font of the 'summary' text on the album view -- what settings would I use for that?

I wonder if you could also help me out with my original desired modification: adding an 'Add Comment' feature via an icon on the right side of the title bar on the photo view. I've been reading the template documentation and have copied code from elsewhere, but am still spinning my wheels. Any chance you have some code for this that I could use? Much appreciated, as always.

Thanks...but after inserting this code the 'add comment' feature doesn't work. The icon displays nicely (I'm using add_comment.gif) but when you click on it nothing happens.

I'm attaching my HYBRID.TPL -- maybe you could take a look at it and see what's missing? Thanks much.

Hmmm...don't know where to get a newer revision. From the Gallery home page, I just clicked on Downloads, then Gallery 2...Latest stable release: ....Themes, and I get the file g2-theme-hybrid-1.0.0.zip which is rev. 1.4, just as I have. Thinking you might have posted something to the forums, I searched there and didn't find anything either.

Thanks. We're talking about Gallery 2.1, yes? I'm a bit nervous about installing a not-officially-released version myself since the web server world is VERY new to me (my web host installed Gallery originally), but I'll ask them about it.

In the meantime, I made the above changes and it now loads up the Add Comment screen, but when I click on SAVE it doesn't save but retains the same screen. It reminded me of a similar situation a while ago when some posted code to add 'Add Comment' to another theme needed to have [arg 3="return=true"] added to the g->url. Thrashing out blindly, I tried that here but to no avail.

Any thoughts? I'm attaching my old HYBRID.TPL again for your review. Much appreciated.

Ok, we can resolve the problem with entities in the urls by making <a> items to copy from instead of <span>. Also you are correct about adding the return url in the links.

Use these code bits:
<a href="#" onclick="this.href=document.getElementById('addcomment_'+image_index).href"><img......
and
<a id="addcomment_{$it.imageIndex}" style="display:none" href="{g->url arg1="view=comment.AddComment" arg2="itemId=`$it.id`" arg3="return=true"}"></a>

Regarding the latest code.. we do a reasonably good job of keeping CVS stable. If you get the current nightly snapshot and install it for use in development of your site then you'll have a theme ready to use with 2.1 when it comes out (target is end of february).

backup both your tpl and the original 1.4 revision.. then you can do diff -u hybrid.tpl_1.4 hybrid.tpl_yours
to get a report of your changes; then you can apply the same to the current hybrid.tpl. For the changes you've made I think this process should be pretty easy.

1) add a title attribute on the <img> to get the mouseover text.
2) hm.. that's a little tricky. hybrid doesn't really have separate "pages" to show photos.. the viewer is dynamic html/javascript that appears on top of the album view.. so when we add arg3="return=true" in the g->url we get the current url, which is for the album. now, if you make an url with itemId={itemId for a photo} hybrid DOES know how to load the page for that album and then popup that particular image when the page loads.. so if you can get the right return url, it's possible.

Mindless -- now that I have commenting ability from the 'photo page', is there a way for me to find out which photos have comments on them without having to go into the photo page for each and every image and click the 'View Info' icon there?

I do like the way in other themes that you can see at the album level an indication of commenting at the photo level.

I have a feeling I'm stretching Hybrid beyond what it's really meant for...

Thanks for any thoughts.

I'm presuming by 'current' you mean the one available in Gallery ver 2.1? In that case I'm definitely going to dive in and learn how to use CVS to get the latest nightly snapshot. OK, thanks.