.Mac web gallery theme

My preposition instead of lytebox for full view is Clearbox JS. Is fast and light and it has similar to flickr bottom scroller and perfect full view slideshow! Of course it has also keyboard control...
Check it on http://www.clearbox.hu/test.htm or http://sarota.net

I got a flash/xml coverflow functional in a gallery theme. Not finished yet but here it is.

http://colt45.chemlab.org/photos/main.php?g2_itemId=2490

I have RC1 up and running on my site - looking good!

http://gallery.jdpictures.co.uk/

For some reason, the album skimming doesn't seem to work - not sure if this is a configuration problem at my end, or if I need some plugin enabled...

It also looks like I still haven't got those colour select images right, they have a small problem with the transparency... - I will update these ASAP.

For RC2, I presume we will try and get the top bar looking like the .mac web gallery - shouldn't be too hard!

Great work Erlis! This thing is going to be awesome!

erlis: its done and usable the coverflow portion, unfortunately i do all my ajax/js toolkits coding in Extjs so it depends on that lib as opposed to yours. Not being finished in the sense of the theme graphics and layout. Basicly all i did was make a flash cover flow and have all the data loading via xml which is supported in flash. Then when selected picture is selected i call a javascript function via the flash program and load it in a div above the flash cover flow. It works pretty good on large albums. I switched the theme on for my one album that is 170+ pictures check it out.

http://colt45.chemlab.org/photos/main.php?g2_itemId=1375

The problem is probably on my side, will release a RC1.5 tomorrow..

(I did forget to remove some options for the theme.)

jacobdeane: don't put down your site, I'll use it for debugging

New release RC1.5

fix for the problems with configure options?

I'm also attempting to implement the callback core.loadPeers to enable resized pictures in lytescript/lyteshow but that will have to wait until RC2.

jacobdeane: I see that the style lacks support for multiple (the page is to high), will add this as a To Do for RC2.

Do we have any other suggestions!? How shall I implement support for album/photo modification from within gallery?

Now it's not a problem since I'm reloading the whole page for every click. But in RC2 I'll just update the image in the Mosaic view hence links in the sidebar would not be updated and so on..

Is it Ok to remove all the comments features from this theme?

Please come with suggestions how to improve this theme.

The javascript handling window resize (pear.js) is now updated SVN revision R24.

Any more suggestions?

My intention is to remove the sidebar in Mosaic view, the only thin missing from the drop down in Grid view are Create replica, and that can I perhaps add to the drop down..

The skimming is made up from the following code, which in theory has a resolution of 150 pictures (I don't have so many pictures in any of mine albums so I can't really test it.

{assign var='j' value='0'}
{math equation="round(150/count)" count=$child.grandChild|@count assign=step}
<img src="{g->url arg1="view=core.DownloadItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.thumbnail.id`"}" usemap="#{$child.thumbnail.id}map" boder="0" name="skim_{$child.thumbnail.id}" alt=""i style="max-width: 150px; max-height: 150px;"/>
<map name="{$child.thumbnail.id}map" onmouseout="skim_{$child.thumbnail.id}.src='{g->url arg1="view=core.DownloadItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.thumbnail.id`"}';">
  {foreach from=$child.grandChild key=i item=it}
    <area shape="rect" COORDS="{$j},0,{math equation="x + y - 1" x=$j y=$step},150" href="{$linkUrl}" onmouseover="skim_{$child.thumbnail.id}.src='{g->url arg1="view=core.DownloadItem" arg2="itemId=`$it.thumbnail.id`"}';" alt="{$title}" title"{$title}">
    {math equation="x + y" x=$j y=$step assign=j}
  {/foreach}
</map>

I have some ideas to "speed up" loading, but mine Ideas actually makes the page bigger..

One Idea is to set all images to a loading.gif image and the update the images from java-scripts, but in this way I actually thinks I'll take longer time to load due to the fact that most modern browser actually support parallel loading..

I think it's possible to get gallery to generate low-res images and use them instead, but then I do think mine approach is better

I have it set up now with all of your fixes. The skimmer works great. I have 80 pics in the album and it skims through 50 of them. I think that is a good number. Any more and it would take too long to load all of the thumbnails.

One thing happens with this many pictures. There ends up being two scroll bars on the right side. One is for the overall body, and the other is just for the grid or thumbnail frame. It would look much cleaner with only one scroll bar. Somehow have the height of the body be 100% of the window, with the scroll bar only used for the thumbnail frame.

I made one personal change in the #gallery style. I set the background to black. I think this background color should be the same as the color picker. Really I think there should not be a choice, only black. I understand others might feel differently.

Looking forward to the carousel function.

Yes, I know there's some problem with multiple scrollbars it's on my to do list of fixes. The bg color should been fixed in RC1, but i did forget to change the css, will up date this later on. Perhaps a total rewrite of the css:es is necessary to get the first page look clean aswell..

Yes, my intention is to just (re)load the image in the Mosaic view, but that poses some problem i.e. the title is wrong and a few other things. This image repalce is already implemented in pear.js but disabled due to the above problems..

I've updated with support for ajax requests please let me know how it works out for you..

BTW, I notices that for some reason, the CSS auto switch when changing views or when clicking on a photo thumbnail in the grid mode. is this a known issue?

no i mean for example here
http://gallery.jdpictures.co.uk/album/Maritime/DSC_3189.jpg.html

If I click on the thumbnail of another photo to enlarge it, the background first go grey before going back to black... it's minor, but ut nevertheless auto switch for no reason.

Do you see what I mean?

Anyway, i'm loving this theme this is really good stuff

Man looks awesomiiiiiiier!!!!!
When did you upgrade that! i downloaded the theme from one of your link yesterday in this thread (1.5)
I JUST installed it at photos.belfiore.fr
Now I need to find the files to upgrade it!!! can you point me to them please?

To use bleeding edge implementation i suggest you to use the svn version (discussed earlier in this thread). I still have some issues with the newest implementation (R30) so I'll wait until they are solved.

Perhaps we should move the carousel view to RC3 (I haven't started looking at this yet, and will not since undertoe are working on this) and call the new Ajax implementation RC2 what do you think??

Are there any problems with the current ajax theme? It's impossible to access information about a single photo, but is this a big issue?

My plans is to rewrite the photo view (which in RC1.5 is the same as Mosaic view) to show up in a lytebox almost as Apples solution but this must wait till next week.. Perhaps someone can create images to show in photo view..

Suggestions on what to display: download item; add comment; exif data; edit link; and so on..

Please have a look on the original Ajaxan theme for gallery2 how to improve pear.

Also maybe you should chek ou the Ebony theme, which is available in the theme forum. It's a recent theme which looks pretty good
check out this thread, there is a demo http://gallery.menalto.com/node/74978
It makes me think that we might want to see a search engine for Pear as well, what do you think is it on the road map at some point?

oups my bad! thanks i'm upgrading the whole thing right now, thanks

Great!
BTW do you think it's possible to use a javascript compressor? I think the YUI has release one. I believe it would speed up the whole thing at startup. Do you think this is something that can be done here (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/)
Well I guess I'll implement the search myself then cause I like to search within a gallery by using tags/keywords

Any news on the carousel/coverflow feature?

Love the theme so far can't wait for more updates!

where can we get it?

really nice job erlis! One question - can we still upload videos to the gallery?

Here is a problem I am having. In Mosaic, if the image size is say 640 x 480, but the space available to view the image is 700x700, the them expands the image to fit the space. Web browsers are not very good at resizing images and it looks terrible. Is there a way to have the theme leave the image in its original size, if it is smaller than the space available?

Have you taken a look at this:
http://194.95.111.244/~countzero/scripts/_myImageFlow/

They seem to have the coverflow working, though I'm not sure how compatible it is w/ your existing theme.

Also, does this theme accurately track item view counts?

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