Skins and Image Sizes in Gallery (Simple Folder)

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5/22/2008 2:48:29 PM
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Skins and Image Sizes in Gallery (Simple Folder)

 

I cannot seem to find a skin that will show my image gallery within the bounds of any skin I chose. I created a new page, added the gallery in the center colunm, and copied-in my directory to the ../foldergalleries directory. What displays is two small images on the left for navigation "up" or "back", a large image in the middle, and an image on the right to navigate "next". The size of the center image seems to go to the edge of the skin's column, which makes the far right image go outside of the skin, the whole thing is probably too wide for anyone to see besides me (I have a large monitor with high resolution).

 

What can I do to fix this?

 

Thanks. I am using version 2-2-5-4 for SQLite.

 

 

5/24/2008 6:40:33 AM
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Re: Skins and Image Sizes in Gallery (Simple Folder)

Hi,

You may have better luck with ramblingsoul-coloredpencils or ramblingsoul-tabular1 skins as these use the full screen width. The Folder Gallery does get constrained by the fixed width skins and tends to crawl outside of the boundaries. You could potentialy make a wider version of your skin and only assign it on the page that has the folder gallery.

Best,

Joe

2/14/2009 8:03:05 AM
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Re: Skins and Image Sizes in Gallery (Simple Folder)

Hi Joe,

I'm having the same problem and making a skin that is wider just for that page, is not possible.
It is possible, but I don't find this a good solution.
So my question to you: can you make it possible that we can fill in a max width or height, like it is in that other image gallery?

Stef

2/14/2009 8:34:09 AM
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Re: Skins and Image Sizes in Gallery (Simple Folder)

Hi Stef,

The best I can do easily is to make a Web.config setting:

<add key="FolderGalleryPreviewWidth" value="500" />

Previously the preview size for folder gallery was hard coded at 700 which is rather wide for most of our skins. Its not something I can easily make a module setting for (like the other gallery) because of the way the folder gallery works, its an http handler and really has no idea internally that it is a also paert of a module so it can't use module settings, so the best easy thing I could do is make a Web.config setting.

I just implemented it on my local copy and it works, so it will be in the next release of mojoPortal. 

Best,

Joe

2/14/2009 9:39:56 AM
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Re: Skins and Image Sizes in Gallery (Simple Folder)

Joe,

a Web.config setting is more than enough, since this is a site setting (i guess the setting is usable for all instances of that module).
So that would be great.

Thanks
Stef

 

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