New Module: Album Cover Browser

Hi all,

I wasn't happy with the requirement that album covers had to propagate up from a child album with the target image. That made things pretty inflexible and required a multi-step "assign to parent then to parent's parent, then re-assign parent if that's not what you want there" type of approach. Thus, the Album Cover Browser was born. This is pretty much just a marriage of the move browser with the "set as album cover" code hacked into the save section. It doesn't have any parameters currently, which means you have to have edit priveleges on the source to allow you to browse for an album to assign to. Theoretically I could allow assigning from anything you can view, but decided against it for this round. Seemed odd for visitors to see a menu prompt for that one thing! I could probably address that so that you at least have to be logged in, but we'll see what people think of this as-is.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks,

Beo

** See: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/97132#comment-374157 for the most recent verion **

Hi,

Thanks for this module. However, I can't seem to find where I should set the album cover. Am I missing an option somewhere?

What I really would like is to use ANY photo as the album cover, even if it is not in my Gallery already. Like the "album highlite" feature (or was that a module also?) in Gallery2, where you can simply browse for a photo on your local disk.

Thanks again!

I don't understand the Gallery architecture completely, but what I do now is simply create a thumbnail for an album, name it .album.jpg and put it in the correct subdirectory of /var/thumbs. Then I set the thumb_height and thumb_width values in the items table to match the thumbnail and I am done...

Same here and I tried it with several versions of G3 (3.0 RC2, 3.0 official)

Echo: I can't find the new option anywhere.

@Lord Beowulf: Can you confirm that the module still works for you if you uninstall and reinstall it (using the link above)? I'm not sure if the module itself is broken or if it's conflicting with some specific setups/themes.

Anyone else get it working?

It seems like the context_menu event doesn't find the event class of the album cover browser. It searches for album_cover_browser_event instead of cover_browser_event. I changed the file name from cover_browser_event.php to album_cover_browser_event.php inside the modules helper folder. Appropriately the class name in side has to be album_cover_browser_event_Core! Now the menu item appears for me.

same here. it simply won't work with the final version of gallery3. renaming the file crashes the entire gallery.

this plugin should be removed until its fixed and confirmed to really work.

@mr_hyde
thanks for sharing. your / clicks version works. dunno what went wrong when i renamed it myself.

on a side note, after successfully setting the album cover the popup with the JSON success message won't close itself automatically.

It works with 3.0.1 for me.
Did you try the zip file posted by @mr_hyde (about 3 posts above)?

Ok, I think I've got it sorted. I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't read clicks' post carefully enough to see that in addition to renaming that helper file a corresponding change need to be made inside it. [embarrassed smiley] Now it works. Thanks.

But I'm still puzzled about this tar_.gz thing. Some searching indicates that that this is a Drupal bug/feature. Even so, that doesn't explain why I can't open the download whereas clearly some of you can. Sounds like one of those eternal mysteries.

U-G

The problem is not with the codex per se, although I am not sure if the comment Also, if you put a picture in a gallery temporarily to assign it as an album cover and then remove it, the album cover is removed as well is correct.

The main problem is with the file in the first post - which has an easy-to-fix bug. I've attached my working version in the more usual zip form and at your invitation have made some minor changes to the codex page. Perhaps also someone who knows whether the above quote is correct could either fix that quote on the codex page or remove my query.

U-G

That statement is actually incorrect. The behavior of Gallery 3.0.6 is as follows:

I had an album where I had two videos in it. It automatically chose a thumbnail from one of them and assigned it as a cover for the album. I later decided that neither of the videos belonged in the album and moved them to another album. This album was empty and retained the thumbnail it had pulled from the video it no longer contained.

Well, I have FireFox, but I don't have the dev tool. I didn't see any CSS files in the module at all, which is strange..... Makes me think it's using default values perhaps?

In the default theme that Gallery 3 installs, this looks ok. It's when I have the Clean Canvas theme on with the dark mode option that it doesn't look right. (I'm thinking out loud while I'm typing...) Maybe there's a CSS file in the Clean Canvas theme that needs to be edited that controls what the popup boxes look like.

What is your opinion on that thought?

OK. I made this change and it also changed the background color for editing movie information. The label text color on these dialog boxes is a dark gray color and with a black background, the text doesn't show up. I swear I can't win here. Is there a code for changing the text color that I can try?

I'm not crazy about red, so I set it to a light blue color. That works for me.