Squared Thumbnails in Grid Block

Hi folks

First of all let me congratulate you to such a great wordpress plugin.

I want to use the grid block to show my latest images as very small thumbnails eg 65x65. Sadly though i can only display them in their native dimensions (which is usually a 4:3 ratio). From what i have read on the forum the images used in the grid are actually the thumbnails of the gallery2 scalled down in html (or from the bigger gallery2 files if the images in the block are larger than the thumbs).

my problem is, that i don't want to use squared thumbnails in my regular gallery. i just want them in the grid block sidebar in my wordpress widget bar. so therefore the question is... is it possible to use squared images although the regular thumbnails are of a different ratio?

thanks for any help

btw... a freely choosable number of images in the grid would also be nice.

btw2... i use gallery2 2.2.4 and wpg2 3.0.2

judging from the source you use the g2_sidebargridblock() function which comes from the gallery2 (i guess). so this generates the grid code which you don't have control over right?

One would need to create a custom Grid widget which generates the images from the original images (probably from "the next best fitting size"). Ideally this approach would cache the images and shuffle them around when new images are found in the gallery2. Of course this would also require image processing (gd, imagemagick, etc.) which the wpg2 plugin doesn't do right now (i guess).

(a lot of guessing here ;))