Support/Comments for Easy 2 Gallery 1.4.0-RC1

updated: e2g-1.4.0-rc1-r259.zip

• fixed the resizing type of the image creation for the slideshow
• added new slideshow’s config tab in Module (attachment)
• added parameters: &ss_orderby, &ss_order
• updated the english help file

run the installer.

If you find a bug, please post here.

I forgot to mention another new important update for this revision:

This update is included the change on the thumbnail images.
Thumbnail now uses document ID and session ID to separate between different snippet calls on the same/different page(s) with different settings which (unfortunately) with the same dimension.

So, the result of the different snippet calls of different settings (eg: resize_type) to the same dimension will give you more reliable output. This goes to the thumbnails AND (generated images) slideshows.

Thanks so much, @goldsky! I installed the new version and everything works perfectly now. I’ll let you know if I run into anything else.

I ran into one more thing. It’s not a big deal to me, but just thought I’d let you know. In the new ss config area, I tried entering ’all’ as you suggested for &ss_limit=, but got the following error on the page where the slideshow should display.



I had used all in the box on it’s own, with no punctuation. Easily fixed by using a number, but, just to let you know... And if ’all’ is supposed to have any punctuation around it and this was my error, maybe a bit of clarification in the instructions?

geez... it supposed to be &ss_limit=`none`
sorry

EDIT:
It looks like I have changed the tutorial. Not affected in your installation?
* &gid
* &fid
* &rgid
* &ss_limit - default: config’s setting
to set how many images the slide show should retrieve from the gallery ID.
More images means longer page loading!
Options : int | ’none’
Default : config’s setting
* &ss_orderby - default: config’s setting
* &ss_order - default: config’s setting

Hi goldsky

Thanks for a fantastic MODx module - I’ve encountered just a few bugs in the latest version, some of which I suspect may be bugs in some of the slideshows themseleves.

Using slimbox 1.x as the slideshow, the image number says Im1age instead of Image. I can’t see where this typo is to be honest as it doesn’t appear to be in the templates as far as I can tell.

Using Shadowbox, long titles get cut off rather than wrapping round onto a new line. Is there any way around this? Compare the Shadowbox example attached to the Slimbox1 example to see the full filename.

Using Slimbox 2.x, it currently pops up two Slimboxes instead of one. Is there any way to stop this from happening?

And finally, using ANY slideshow, the title seems to get a - (hyphen) attached to the end of it for no reason. Any way to stop that as well?

Many thanks!

@pete,
You have a strange issue here.
Did you make your custom settings to the javascript files?
Since I don’t see the similar problem in my test site, do you mind to PM me your site?

About the ’-’ (hyphen), it’s in the thumbnail.htm template, between title and summary:

after copy and repath the default template path to your new template path (recommended), you can just delete "-[+easy2:summary+]"

I’ve not made any changes to the javascript files - I’ve PM’d you the URL so you can have a look.

Thanks for pointing out where the hyphen was - can I suggest that instead of it being in the template it could be in the code so that if there is no summary then it doesn’t display the hyphen? That way you could also have it as a parameter in the snippet call instead, so people can still replace it with a linebreak or other character.

I fixed the titles in Shadowbox.css to wrap over as many lines as they need by changing



to



I realise this isn’t an issue in the Easy2Gallery code, but someone else might find it useful anyway Maybe that one CSS value could be overridden by the Easy2Gallery code? That way it works perfectly and doesn’t get broken again by newer versions of Shadowbox

Quote from: Pete at Jul 26, 2010, 02:04 PM

I’ve not made any changes to the javascript files - I’ve PM’d you the URL so you can have a look.

got it, thx
Quote from: Pete at Jul 26, 2010, 02:04 PM

Thanks for pointing out where the hyphen was - can I suggest that instead of it being in the template it could be in the code so that if there is no summary then it doesn’t display the hyphen? That way you could also have it as a parameter in the snippet call instead, so people can still replace it with a linebreak or other character.

isn’t that easier to change the template?
this one is about detailing, but if the snippet goes too detail on everything, the user will get confuse, no?
Quote from: Pete at Jul 26, 2010, 02:04 PM

I fixed the titles in Shadowbox.css to wrap over as many lines as they need by changing

#sb-title,#sb-title-inner{height:26px;line-height:26px;}

to

#sb-title,#sb-title-inner{height:auto;line-height:20px;}

I realise this isn’t an issue in the Easy2Gallery code, but someone else might find it useful anyway Maybe that one CSS value could be overridden by the Easy2Gallery code? That way it works perfectly and doesn’t get broken again by newer versions of Shadowbox

Aahhh... thx for the hint.

The problem you are experiencing with Slimbox, I believe is a Slimbox bug, as I had that problem using it with Maxigallery on previous site.

The css "wrap" change you made will be useful for me too, thanks.