This is a great module. Here are a few enhancements that I would enjoy...

1. Enable the lightbox to display all the images in the gallery, not just the ones on the page (if larger gallery is paged)

2. If some image thumbnails are taller than others set the row height to the tallest image, not the height of the first image.

3. Allow a 'no image preset' option for full view, but instead link directly to the image. Then I can resize my images myself before I upload them to my server and save both the CPU required for resizing and also the additional copy of the image. Currently this module will result in 3 images for every image in my gallery. The one I uploaded, the image_cache thumbnail, and the image_cache full view.

4. Add a folders title option as well. I would like to have titles for my folders equal to their file name, but no titles for the images.

5. For single folder galleries create an option to jump to lightbox without displaying a page of thumbnails. This could be cool to links to shorter quick slideshows. I am guessing the lightbox works by displaying the images on the page, so maybe this is not possible, or only with some thoughtful programming.

6. Enable the addition user defined text at the top and bottom of galleries.

Thanks again for a great module.

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webservant316 commented

Another couple of ideas....

7. Add more options for the text below the picture such as...
'enumeration' - that is you generate numbers 1 through however many photos are in the folder
'text-enumeration' - that is allow me to specifiy a common text in front of enumeration such as 'golf-001'

8. Provide more options for the layout of the thumbnails such as...
allow me to specify the number of columns (looks like 4 is the only option)
allow me to specify the horizontal and vertical margin or space between thumbs

thanks again for the module.

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webservant316 commented

Just got a mandate from the boss.
I have to fix the row height problem mentioned above

2. If some image thumbnails are taller than others set the row height to the tallest image, not the height of the first image.

Any thought on when a new release could fix this problem?
Any counsel about how to patch the problem myself?
I'll check tommorrow, perhaps I can fix it with CSS in my Zen theme.

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rapsli commented

can be released as soon as there's a patch that fixes it, so if you find a solution, post it here.

Right now I have my mind with other things, so I think it would take some time till I'll fix it myself.

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webservant316 commented

I plan to try several ideas before touching your php.
First, my current image cache preset uses scale down to width only. I want to try a scale down to height and see what happens.
Second, I have a lot of control with CSS in my Zen theme. That may offer a solution as well.
I will post back as soon as I get to those ideas myself.

Thanks.

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webservant316 commented

in the end I used imagecache_actions to define an imagecache preset that sizes all thumbnails to the same size. I might have been able to use the CSS 'clear' directive if I could get my hands on which is the image in the first column. perhaps a future release of fast_gallery could add a tag to the image div indicating that. however, I quick look at your code suggests that this might be hard to do since you just left the images float the whol way down the page. there is a simple elegance to the way you have it, but it created this small snafu for me. too bad CSS doesn't have more tools to identify a dangling block.

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webservant316 commented

one easy way would be allow me to specify adding a CCS tag on a specified image increment.
for example allow me to add 'class=column1' on every 4th image '0, 5, 9, etc...'.
then I could use CSS to add the 'clear' directive on that class.

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summit commented

Subscribing, theming options improvements would be great!
greetings, Martijn