Carbon Theme

Love the theme! One issue that has been driving me nuts though!!! When I am logged in as the admin, I am able to see a drop down box under each album with the Album Actions Drop-Down however, when using the gallery as a guest, I am unable to figure out how to show the Album Actions Drop-Down.

See the 2 photos below for an example (Please excuse my lack of photoshop ;) )

How can I make it so that guests are able to get the Album Action Drop-Down?

I have spent hours changing around the theme settings to add the drop down but all I am able to seem to be able to add is the ADD ALBUM TO CART and even that is not in a drop down

Thank you!

I created the new "local" folder and copied the theme.tpl into that folder. Do you know why it's not grabbing from the "local" folder?

I've also tried to do change the original theme.tpl and that did not work either.

I also tried to make changes to ads.tpl, but my google ads do not show up.

I have cleared my cache and that did not help.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

yow, I don't have any idea what is the problem. Sorry! It could be a better idea to post this problem to "3rd Party Modules and Themes Support". If I find something, I will post the solution.

spooniverse, you can download the changed file from the link below. It is just a quick fix, you can compare what I have changed and improve it.

http://www.mincel.com/carbon
http://www.mincel.com/gallery

I prefered to have it so you could change the size yourself, and its an easy fix. Just add {g->block type="core.PhotoSizes" class="giInfo"} into the photo.tpl on line 116. You can find the photo.tpl in the themes directory.

EDIT: First you should create a folder named "local" in the template folder and then copy the photo.tpl into the "local" folder then you can edit and save the photo.tpl

....
<div class="gbBlock">
                    {g->block type="core.ItemInfo"
                              item=$theme.item
                              showDate=true
                              showOwner=true
                              class="giInfo"}
                              {g->block type="core.PhotoSizes" class="giInfo"}
                  </div>
                  <div class="gbBlock">
....

/Ant

Hi mincel,

I have just completed a fresh install of Gallery 2.1.1 and am receiving an error I see other people have posted about:

ImageFrame v1.0.3 is installed and activated, and I cannot find any other cause, assuming the Carbon version currently available is still compatable.

Could I ask a little advice/help? Many thanks, Ash.

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EDIT: IGNORE. I see Carbon Theme (Blackjack) v1.1.1 (Gallery 2.1) is the appropriate theme file. - it really does help to read an entire thread through, doesn't it;)

This theme is truly lovely. Thank you for your efforts

I am having the same problem as geogee when I try to view a picture(when I click the first level of thumbnails).
http://www.foulplayguild.com/gallery2
I get this error message:

any help would be appreciated. Also I'd just like to say your theme looks great and keep up the awesome work =)

I found the solution to my problem of:

If you download the minimal install package of G2, make sure that you download the exif module, or you will get this error. You can download the module right from the gallery website. Great theme, keep up the good work.

I really like that theme. The only thing I'm missing right now is the font type used for the site name on the top. Is this a special one or can someone tell me which one it is and if it is allowed to use it.

You can find the font in the 3rd page of this forum.

In the 2nd of the forum eosguy explains how he did it.

http://www.mincel.com/carbon
http://www.mincel.com/gallery

okay, I got lightbox to work, but it only when you click to see the larger image. What part of the code would i need to edit for the lightbox to load the "reduced" size image. What I mean is you go to the album page where you see see the thumbnail. Then you click on the thumbnail (this is where I want the lightbox to load) rather than having it load on the fullsize part.

mincel,
First I just want to say thanks for the help...

I cleared the template cache but no luck... here is an example of a link to an image from viewing the source of an album page when I look at it in Netscape:

I have Permalinks installed could that be causing me a problem ??

I see.. I did a bit more work based on you last post... You were right that was a link from an album page.. Like I said I am new to Gallery and I missed the concept of how the Photo Page vs Album Page affected Lightbox... It does work from the Photo Page.. You were also right that what I was really looking to do was the same thing SharpDoggy wants to do and use Lightbox to bring up a Photo directly from the Thumbnail on the album page. I am not sure what to change but I will take a look at the album.tpl file and see what I can do..

If anyone has any hints on where to start with modifying the album.tpl file for Lightbox I would be interested in trying them... Thanks

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--> Ok, At this point I have spent about 6 hours trying to get Lightbox working so it would handle displaying the resized images when clicking on a thumbnail on an album page by changing the album.tpl file as mincel suggested.. I have come to the conclusion that I am truly lost at this point.. So unless anybody has any ideas I will probably just give up on using Lightbox for now unfortunately since it would really make my Gallery of images much more useful...

Also while trying to get this to work I think I came up with another problem I would have to solve in that I have an intial album page that allows users to select sub-albums to view such as 2003 Season or 2004 Season, etc.. So somehow I would need to make sure it would only work with the sub-albums and not my main album page...

Also, where can I edit the size of the microthumbnails?

Excuse for my bad english.

I have a gallery in this format, one column-many rows in 1st Page and album.
I would like put title (gititle), description (gidescription), date etc. to the right of thumbs ,not below.
How I can make? Is Possible in your theme?

System Information
Gallery version 2.1
PHP version 4.4.1 cgi
Webserver Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.24 OpenSSL/0.9.7i
Database mysql 4.1.19
Toolkits ImageMagick, NetPBM, Gd
Operating system FreeBSD odontotecnico.it 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #6: Fri Ma i386
Browser Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

ok. I have resolved. This my work in progress http://www.odontotecnico.it/gallery2/gallery2embedded.php

An other question. This is my goal http://www.odontotecnico.it/panomontagna.html (edit:the link now works)
Is possible vertical align column/photo and the column/items?

On the Carbon Theme settings, I can set what resized limits are. But whatever I put in there, I always get only the same photo size in
the albums. With the PGTheme I used to have a drop down box on the side that let users pick their supported resolutions. Is there a
way to have variable sized images display with Carbon?

Christian

I finally have Lightbox working from the album page. The way I have it setup is that I have a main page that has images that link to various albums. The mainpage uses the Carbon Theme. Once on an individual album page if you click on a thumbnail the Image will be displayed using lightbox..

This is implmented via a combination of methods that I have gathered from these forums. Since there have been a lot of posts about how to implement this I thought I would post the complete sequence I used:

First I created a directory called lightbox in the Gallery2 directory. I placed the following files in the lightbox directory:

effects.js
lightbox.js
prototype.js
scriptaculous.js

I then created css and images directories in the lightbox directory and placed the lightbox.css file into the css directory and the images in the images directory.

I then cloned the Carbon Theme as CarbonLight and made the following updates. The only other thing that you would need to do is set all of the apporpriate directory paths correct for your directory structure.

theme.css changes:

Locate the following entry inn the theme.tpl file:

{* Include this theme's style sheet *}
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{g->theme url="theme.css"}"/>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="{g->url href='themes/carbonlight/theme.js'}"></script>

Add the following entry for Lightbox and associated javascript and CSS

{* Add Lightbox javascript and CSS *}
    <script type="text/javascript" src="{g->url href="lightbox/prototype.js"}"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{g->url href="lightbox/css/lightbox.css"}"/>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="{g->url href="lightbox/lightbox.js"}"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="{g->url href="lightbox/scriptaculous.js?load=effects"}"></script>

The Entry should now look like this:

{* Add Lightbox javascript and CSS *}
    <script type="text/javascript" src="{g->url href="lightbox/prototype.js"}"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{g->url href="lightbox/css/lightbox.css"}"/>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="{g->url href="lightbox/lightbox.js"}"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="{g->url href="lightbox/scriptaculous.js?load=effects"}"></script>
    
    {* Include this theme's style sheet *}
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{g->theme url="theme.css"}"/>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="{g->url href='themes/carbonlight/theme.js'}"></script>

album.tpl changes:

Locate the following entry in the album.tpl file:

125     {if isset($theme.params.$frameType) && isset($child.thumbnail)}
126                        {g->container type="imageframe.ImageFrame" frame=$theme.params.$frameType
127                                      width=$child.thumbnail.width height=$child.thumbnail.height}
128                        <a href="{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}">

Replace line 128 (this may very slightly with your file but it should be around 128) with one of the following entries:

128    <a href="{g->url arg1="view=core.DownloadItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}" title='<h4>{$child.title|markup}</h4><br><a href="{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}">View Photo Page</a>' rel="lightbox[photos]">

128    <a href="{g->url arg1="view=core.DownloadItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}" title='<h4>{$child.title|markup}</h4><br>' rel="lightbox[photos]">

** Note **
The first entry places a link to view the Photo Page for the image being displayed by Lightbox The second entry removes the link to the Photo Page.

navigator.tpl chnages:

Locate the following entry inn the navigator.tpl file:

<a href="{$smarty.capture.url}" target="_blank" 
      onclick="popImage(this.href, '{$theme.item.title}'); return false;" 
     title="Full Size">

Change the entry to the following:

<a href="{$smarty.capture.url}" rel="lightbox"></a></div>

Hi Mincel,
I've recently installed the Carbon Theme. It's Great. I've been doing some minor editing, but I can't find how to change or add the footer images. Just to make sure I'm explaining it right...These are the small boxes at the bottom with the Gallery link and your box with your link. I can the image itself but how do I edit the url it points to, or just get rid of it?

Schneide, THANKS FOR SHARING THE INFORMATION! I am sure this will help many people.

mountainography, to add a new button you should create a css button in theme.css and change the photo.tpl to but the button. You can use the fallowing code to go back to the thumbnail view.

<a href="{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem"
                 arg2="itemId=`$theme.parents[1].id`"
                 arg3="highlightId=`$theme.item.id`"}">
</a>

http://www.mincel.com/carbon
http://www.mincel.com/gallery

Is there a way to make the Carbon Theme not show any albums until the users login? I'm using Gallery 2.1.1 Please advise. BTW Mincel your Carbon Theme is the best one so far. Hopefully what I am asking for can be done.

Thank You

I have attached a modified Lightbox.txt file below that provides a Slideshow in Lightbox.. Basically the way it functions is that once the user clicks on a picture that opens in a Lightbox if they press the 's' key Lightbox will show the remaining pictures in the album as a Lightbox Slideshow and the close the Lightbox Window after the Last Image is shown.. The duration each image is displayed may be set via a Variable.. All my changes are commented so they are easy to find and modify if anyone owuld like the Slideshow ability but would like to make it operate a bit differently than I have... All you need to do to use it is rename it to Lightbox.js...

Update: I removed the file because I found a bug with the code that made sure the full image was available before setting the display time.. I will repost the file as soon as I fix it...

Thanks!! Got it to work!

Hmm, we are using a multi user setup so that's probably why I can't find the main file. Is there a way I could put a home page link onto my carbon theme without affecting other users...

Thanks again

V*

Go to Site Admin > Themes and Carbon tab, here you should fill "Extra link for top navigation bar" and "URL for the extra link". But I'm not sure if this changes affect the other user or not.

Thanks for this nice compliment! For the width you need to edit theme.tpl file. Before changing you should see the notification about modules that require full screen.

http://www.mincel.com/carbon
http://www.mincel.com/gallery

Thanks Mincel. I was able to change the width using your suggestion, this worked in stand-a-lone but when it was embeded, it didn't affect the width. I got around this by adding the following to the carbon style sheet:-

#gallery {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 62.5%;
color: #999;
background-color: #333;
width: 905px;
}

Thanks again for your help and for a wonderful theme!