Can you and how to do this - MaxiGallery with a thumbnail selector? [Answered]

Hi all,

I have just set up MG with phpthumb and it is all working fine. With phpthumb it automatically selects the area it makes into a thumbnail.

I was wondering if you get getting something like this

http://www.silisoftware.com/scripts/?scriptname=ThumbnailSelector]

so that the end-user could select the area from the origianl picture for the thumbnail they want to display.

i am currently using modx 1.0.2

if this can’t be done with MG is there any other gallery software that can do this?

thanks

Tim

Nothing for MODx that I know of...

That can be done, if you code it yourself. You could add custom field to maxigallery to store the location of the thumbnail. Then when a picture is uploaded, users could set the thumbnail location with that kind of script what stores the x, y and other necessary values as a phpThumb usable string to the hidden custom field. Then I maxigallery templates you would use that customfield content as parameters to the phpThumb call.

But if nothing above makes sense to you or you don’t know how to implement it, then you’d have to hire someone to do it.

Hi doze,

Thanks for the reply, as i thought their is no easy solution.

what you suggested makes sense but like you said implementing it myself...is the problem.

aslo an indirect thanks as i have read some of your other threads which have helped me get a few things working.

off topic but i guess your name comes from being a machine head fan?! I approve of your music taste.

once again thanks

Tim

Quote from: timbo_la at Feb 23, 2010, 08:05 AM

off topic but i guess your name comes from being a machine head fan?! I approve of your music taste.

Well.. my nickname comes from somewhere else, but yeah, I’m a long time Machine Head fan! I have a couple favourite bands, but Machine Head has always been the most favourite one for me.

And glad that you have gotten help from the forum threads.. There is ALOT of very usefull information in these forums. And I don’t mean just in maxigallery subforum, but in the modx forums as whole. It’s a very good resource to use and people here are very helpfull and friendly buch. Too bad much of the information in forums can be buried under long threads and can be hard to find even with the current search functionality. That’s the one reason I have tried to keep that "usefull information" thread as uptodate as possible.

Happy MODx’ing, and if you find that feature to be necessary for your clients, you can always turn to the Bounties subforum and hire someone to implement it for you. It requires some work to implement what I described above, but not that hard as you don’t have to touch MaxiGallerys code at all.