Does MaxiGallery work with Revolution?

Does MaxiGallery work with Revolution?

I followed the install instructions in the Wiki and http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/MaxiGallery#Creating_your_first_gallery

The page just shows the Snippet call:

http://smiley-face.com/9.html

Quote from: smileybri at Jul 03, 2009, 04:30 PM

Does MaxiGallery work with Revolution?

I followed the install instructions in the Wiki and http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/MaxiGallery#Creating_your_first_gallery

The page just shows the Snippet call:

http://smiley-face.com/9.html

I’m afraid not. There is no Revolution version of MaxiGallery yet.

@doze

"MODx Versions
all"

Maybe that should be revised on the Wiki?

This is also a problem with the resource library. I don’t mean to beat a dead horse, but it is missing so much information includuding what versions are supported. Almost none of the resources have this info.

There are a lot of good developers who have worked hard on some very useful extras, but the resource library is so dysfunctional that the community can’t find anything.

That is my rant. Now tell me - what would you like me to do help? I mean it. I am no programmer, but I know some PHP.

The resource library lost information from the switchover. Do we have the old data? Do you need me to find it and copy it to the new library? How can I help?

There is no reason for someone who is running Revolution to install MaxiGallery and then find out that it does not work in Revolution. How can I help people not make this same mistake?

I guess somebody cleared the "Works with the following Version" fields.. I now updated the information for MaxiGallery.

As a rule of thumb I would say that the available Revolution packages can be found though the package installer in Revolution manager and the resources that work in Evolution currently won’t probably work in Revolution. Some very simple resources might work, but most need some kind of migration.

MaxiGallery won’t be supported in Revolution, at least not by me. But I’m doing a new Component (or a set of components actually) for Revolution that can be used to build Image galleries, among other things..

Reworking MaxiGallery for Revolution is certainly more than just an hour or two of work. I’d love to see someone do it though...unless, doze, are those new components going to include smoothgallery, lightbox, etc? In other words, will they be just as good as MaxiGallery, or...even better???

Still on the Wiki...
MODx Snippet
MaxiGallery v0.5.2
Author
doze
MODx Versions
all
Last Updated
today

smilybri,

The wiki is not offical documentation and is user maintained. It is likely that at the time the MaxiGallery entry was updated there was only one version of MODx.

It is safe to assume as was noted before that if an addon is not in the PackageManger in Revolution that it isn’t available. That being said many simple snippets’ conversion is a matter of a few adjustments depending on what php methods are called. Any placeholders and output pieces will also need to be migrated using the new tag syntax.

MaxiGallery is a very large and robust addon that will require significant work to port to Revolution and I expect some form of it will show up at some point.

Cheers,

Jay

Quote from: rfoster at Jul 03, 2009, 07:09 PM

unless, doze, are those new components going to include smoothgallery, lightbox, etc? In other words, will they be just as good as MaxiGallery, or...even better???

Yes, it should do what MaxiGallery does, but better.. Smoothgalleries and lightboxes etc will be their own components.. It will be a modular set of components what you can use to build galleries like MaxiGallery or do even more complex multimedia galleries. It will probably be a little harder to set up, but with the exportable property sets etc in Revolution, I can probably make packages that install sample galleries automatically. Eg. I will do a component for file uploading and a component for retrieving the files to render various file listings and component to display smoothgallery etc.. then there will be a install package to install "image gallery with smoothgallery view type" and it creates a sample gallery that uses all these various components... Something like that..

That sounds fantastic. I can’t wait to see it.

You might rather let people install smoothgallery, lightbox, etc. on their own as separate transport packages rather than supporting multiple installation packages. That’s what I did with SPForm and Captcha. If you try to use Captcha in SPForm without it installed, you just get a message telling you to install it.

yes, all the components will be their own transport packages and will work as their own too.. upload component, file listing component, phpthumb, smoothgallery, lightbox etc.. but I was thinking to do a transport package that just checks that all the necessary components are installed and it would create a new document for a demo gallery with all snippet calls in place. So users can install that as a base for their gallery and start modifying it from there.. and then later expand that "demo gallery" transport package to ask in setup options which kind of demo gallery to install.