feature requests in carousel [#399120]

Hi Jancis,

The images in carousel are not the resized images of the original and show only the upper-left part of the original images. I think they should be the same as the thumbnails of a gallery. These thumbnails are the resized images of the original and therefore show the whole part of the original images. See thumbnails.jpg and carousel.jpg for details.

Another feature I would like to see is to make the middle image in carousel to stand out. A visitor cannot tell which image is showing without making it to stand out. A border around it should be enough.

Can we see more images in carousel? If we have a lot of images in a gallery, it would be nice if we can see more than 5 images in carousel.

When I click the larger image at the bottom of the screen (attached carousel.jpg) and this image is the last image in a gallery, images in carousel flicker. Can you avoid this flickering?

When an image's title and description are edited, besides the Save button, it is better to have the Cancel button. See save_button.jpg.

Thank you very much for the great work!

Kit

Comment	File	Size	Author
#13	imagesinalbum	26.02 KB	Meeyo
#13	notitle	28.86 KB	Meeyo
#9	ImagesInformation2.jpg	74.91 KB	franceslui
#9	lightbox2.jpg	251.15 KB	franceslui
#7	ImagesInformation.jpg	53.87 KB	franceslui
#7	lightbox.jpg	238.15 KB	franceslui
#2	screenshot.jpg	78.43 KB	franceslui
	save_button.jpg	97.87 KB	franceslui
	carousel.jpg	173.45 KB	franceslui
	thumbnails.jpg	156.4 KB	franceslui

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Comments

Comment #1

Jānis Bebrītis CreditAttribution: Jānis Bebrītis commented 12 March 2009 at 06:41

Those small pictures in carousel actually are upper corner of thumbnails. They are not meant to represent image 1:1, they are for navigating. Also, I wanted them to be +/- similar in size, because otherwise they would stand out and confuse user. this is kinda related to next ui suggestion to point out current picture. Border idea is really good, and I believe many people would agree with this.

One more drawback for displaying thumbnails 1:1 is that they would be large and there could be only like 3 or 4 thumbs in a row. Some time ago, I tried to put option in admin settings, to display image numbers instead of pictures (then navigation would take even less space, which I think would be cool).

Comment #2

franceslui CreditAttribution: franceslui commented 13 March 2009 at 01:05

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Hi Jancis,

I know that those small pictures in carousel are upper corner of thumbnails. I need to display pictures in frames. Please take a look at the attachment. As you can see, all those small pictures in carousel look the same and we cannot tell the differences among them. Can we have thumbnails 1:1 for those small pictures in carousel?

Maybe, you are too busy and did not have a chance to answer these questions in my first post:
When I click the larger image at the bottom of the screen and this image is the last image in a gallery, images in carousel flicker. Can you avoid this flickering?
When an image's title and description are edited, besides the Save button, it is better to have the Cancel button. See attached save_button.jpg in my first post.

Thank you very much for the great work!

Kit

Comment #3

Jānis Bebrītis CreditAttribution: Jānis Bebrītis commented 13 March 2009 at 06:48

I cannot fix the flickering issue. As we all know, comments in this image view are broken too, so You can check "Disable dynamical content loading" until #333880: carousel glitches is fixed.

- gallery editor: the cancel button when editing pictures
- shiftview/shiftview no-js fallback: highlighting the active image
- shiftview: resizing issue #399158: Resizing browser makes images in carousel disappear, marked as duplicate for #333880: carousel glitches
- shiftview: thumbnails. this should be discussed more. Your issue is specific, maybe lightbox2 view would be better for viewing the gallery?

not sure if these will be fixed soon. i`d say 3 weeks, because I am short on time lately. :/

Comment #4

franceslui CreditAttribution: franceslui commented 13 March 2009 at 18:59

Hi Jancis,

Thank you for replying and suggesting me to use lightbox2.

I have some problem to display image's description properly in lightbox2. In the description text area, I have entered the following:

<b>Title</b>: Picture 1<p ></p>
<b>Artist</b>: Chester Patrick<p ></p>
<b>Medium</b>: Silkscreen<p ></p>
<b>Dimensions</b>: 10" x 8"<p ></p>

However, I can only see “Image 6 of 16” in lightbox2.

If I don't enter any html code, I see the following in lightbox2:
Picture 1 (title)
View Image Details
- Download Original: 5
Image 6 of 16

This is what I would like to see in lightbox2 without having the links for View Image Details and Download Original:
Title: Picture 1
Artist: Chester Patrick
Medium: Silkscreen
Dimensions: 10" x 8"

Would you please tell me if I can display the above text in lightbox2? If I can, can you tell me how? Many many thanks.

Kit

Comment #5

franceslui CreditAttribution: franceslui commented 16 March 2009 at 15:50

Hi Jancis,

Would you please help me solve my problem described in the previous post?

Many thanks,
Kit

Comment #6

Jānis Bebrītis CreditAttribution: Jānis Bebrītis commented 17 March 2009 at 07:36

I replied with personal message. I really hope that recent improvements will help somehow.

Comment #7

franceslui CreditAttribution: franceslui commented 18 March 2009 at 05:08

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ImagesInformation.jpg	53.87 KB

Hi Jancis,

Thank you for all the great changes.

In ImagesInformation.jpg, the image overlaps the Title and Description fields. I think it is because the size of image is hardcoded. Would you please fix it?

I entered Snow as title and the following as description (see ImagesInformation.jpg again)

<b>Title</b>: Snow
<b>Artist</b>: Chester Patrick
<b>Medium</b>: Silkscreen
<b>Dimensions</b>: 10" x 8"
<b>Price</b>: $115

Then I saw lightbox.jpg. Is it possible not to display the title of the image in Lightbox? What I would like to see is the following:

Title: Snow
Artist: Chester Patrick
Medium: Silkscreen
Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Price: $115

It would be nice if we can specify the format that is to be used in Lightbox. If it is too much work for you or too specific for my needs, can you tell me what to change in your code to meet my needs?

Can we set it to non-slideshow in Lightbox?

Kit

Comment #8

Jānis Bebrītis CreditAttribution: Jānis Bebrītis commented 18 March 2009 at 08:33

- overlap fixed.

as of second issue, you can put newline before text. I mean an enter so that text starts on second line.. like this

[press enter on this line]
<b>Title</b>: Snow
<b>Artist</b>: Chester Patrick
<b>Medium</b>: Silkscreen
<b>Dimensions</b>: 10" x 8"
<b>Price</b>: $115

btw: bold tags don`t do anything, because content of lightbox is already bold`ed

Comment #9

franceslui CreditAttribution: franceslui commented 18 March 2009 at 18:12

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lightbox2.jpg	251.15 KB
ImagesInformation2.jpg	74.91 KB

Hi Jancis,

Thank you for fixing the overlap problem. Please see ImagesInformation2.jpg taken in Internet Explorer 7.0.6. In Firefox, the Description text area looks okay and we can type 3 lines of text, but in Internet Explorer 7.0.6, the Description text area’s height is too short and we can only type 2 lines of text. In both Firefox and Internet Explorer, there is a redundant scrollbar. Would you please fix them?

I have put a newline before text. However, the issue still remained: the text for title is displayed followed by a colon and then the text for description. Currently, the format of text displayed in Lightbox is

[title]: [description]

Please see lightbox2.jpg.

What I would like to see is only

[description]

That is what is on lightbox2.jpg without the first line. It would be nice if we can specify the format that is to be used in Lightbox. If it is too much work for you or too specific for my needs, would you please tell me what to change in your code to meet my needs?

Can we set it to non-slideshow in Lightbox? i.e. next image will not be shown automatically unless visitors click the next link.

I have found a bug when there are more than 20 images uploaded. The gallery used to display links to the second page, next and last pages. However, after I installed your latest module, these links are not there any more. Would you please fix it?

Many thanks,
Kit

Comment #10

Jānis Bebrītis CreditAttribution: Jānis Bebrītis commented 19 March 2009 at 09:30

1st one: no worries, you can move along lines with arrows anyway. but i`ve defined new width of textarea, so that you can see scroller now ;) usually there`s not much text in description.

the 2nd: yeah, this is kinda specific. theres a title on lightbox by default. The colon (":" symbol) appears after title when there`s description (node body) specified. All I can suggest is really hack the code. Look in prog_gallery.module for lines like this:

$title = $entry->title;
if (strlen($entry->body) > 0) $title .= ': '.str_replace("\n",'<br />',$entry->body);

The first one is "[title]"
The second one looks for description (body). If it sees something, it adds ":" and description to title. Look out for "\n" to "
" replacement, because lightbox didnt like "\n" symbols on title.
Summaryzing this, you can put replace those lines with

$title = $entry->title;
if (strlen($entry->body) > 0) $title = str_replace("\n",'<br />',$entry->body);

and the 3rd issue.. I noticed yesterday the same and posted an issue #406204: no pager for gallery.. and then rightaway modified prog_gallery project page.. too much things do not work. I`ll try to fix this as soon as possible anyway, because friend of mine is using it and he has more than 200 pictures in gallery and he noticed the same problem. Follow on to that issue for further progress.

Comment #11

Jānis Bebrītis CreditAttribution: Jānis Bebrītis commented 19 March 2009 at 11:12

Status:

Active

» Closed (duplicate)

original topic marked as duplicate for #333880: carousel glitches

Comment #12

franceslui CreditAttribution: franceslui commented 19 March 2009 at 21:13

Jancis, thank you very much for your help!

Kit

Comment #13

Meeyo CreditAttribution: Meeyo commented 26 May 2009 at 06:58

Version:	6.x-1.x-dev	» 5.x-1.x-dev
Assigned:	Unassigned	» Meeyo
Status:	Closed (duplicate)	» Active

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After clicking the album, thumbnails of images are shown. Is it possible to show the titles, author also? And after clicking on an image and the view is in shift view, is it possible to show also the title of the image not just the title of the album?