collective.plonetruegallery 0.7rc1

A gallery/slideshow product for plone that can aggregate from picasa and flickr or use plone images.

Introduction

collective.plonetruegallery is a Plone product that gives you a Gallery content type. It allows you to add regular Plone Galleries, Picasa Web Albums or even Flickr sets. It allows the user to display the gallery in 3 different sizes, choose between two different javascript gallery display types and customize transitions, effects, and timing.

Features

• Flickr and Picasa Support!

• Gallery Content Type

• Customize gallery size, transition(limited transitions right now), timed and other settings

• Can use nested galleries

• Slideshow 2(with transition types)

• Nested galleries

• Pre-fetches gallery images

Flickr and Picasa Web Album Support

• these packages are no longer a dependency of this package

• to add support for these type of galleries you must install additional packages

• install flickrapi version 1.2 for flickr support

• install gdata version 1.2.3 or higher for Picasa Web Album Support

• these can just be added to your buildout or installed with easy_install

Fetching of Images Explained

• When rendering a gallery, it checks if the images have been fetched within the last 1440 minutes(one day). If they have not, then it fetches them again. It also re-fetches the gallery on edits and when images are added/removed from a gallery. Since images are never really added/removed from a flickr or picasa type, it’ll only be re-fetched every day unless you force it.

• You can also force a specific gallery to be re-fetched by appending refresh to the gallery url

• You can manually refresh all galleries on the site by typing in a url like mysite.com/refresh_all_galleries This means you can also setup a cron-like job to refresh all the galleries whenever you want to just so it isn’t done while a user is trying to render a page.

This product’s inspired usage was for the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

Credits

Translations

• French - Sylvain Boureliou

• Norwegian - Espen Moe-Nilssen

• Brazilian Portuguese - Diego Rubert

Changelog

0.7rc1

• added “Refresh Gallery” button in case you change a gallery and need to re-cook the gallery images before it automatically does it for you. Especially useful for reordering of images in a basic gallery.

• added go to image support via url like /url/to/gallery?start_image=theTitle. Not exactly perfect, but should work most of the time. No other way to know what image it is since I don’t keep ids on flickr and picasa galleries. make sure to url encode the title though.

0.7b2.4

• because translations had .mo files, it broke some systems–removed.

0.7b2.3

• added brazilian translation

0.7b2.1

• updated french translation

• added norwegian translation(Espen Moe-Nilssen)

• added some message factories to places where it wasn’t used

0.7b2

• add css class to no images message

0.7b1

• changed the small picasa gallery size to be 320x320

0.7a1.2

• bug fixes

• gallery type registration changes

0.7a1.1

• fixed bug that prevented subgalleries from being displayed [deo]

• made sure to always display the gallery images even when there are subgalleries in the current gallery [deo]

• removes dependency on simplejson and elementtree

• now flickrapi and gdata are optional add-ons

• added support for slideshow 2 - now gives option of what gallery type to use

• reorganization of gallery schema(simple)

• pre-fetches gallery images to speed rendering time(especially for flickr and picasa). Fetching occurs at a timed interval, can be setup to use clock server or can manually be fetched.

• css fixes

• better design for sub-galleries

0.6b2.4

• fixed dependencies to be more flexible

0.6b2.3

• fixed really dumb basic image sizing problem

0.6b2.2

• added French translation(thanks to Sylvain Boureliou)

0.6b2.1

• removed kss dependency

• fixed flickr issues with api version–just pinned the version number(should have done from the start)

• moved all javascript to portal_javascripts

• fixed safari bug when carousel is hidden

• packed all javascript

• even though this is beta, this is a recommended upgrade as there are many improvements and some major fixes

• implemented new timing mechanism

0.6b1.3

• fixed bug with picasa galleries where it was retrieving all the galleries sometimes

• added better error handling

0.6b1.2

• fixed picasa bugs

0.6b1

• moved all gallery types to adapters.

• fixed opera support

0.5.3.2

• plone 3.0 support fixes

0.5.2

• fixed opera bug

• flickr gallery now supports name or id for user an sets

0.5b1

• minor bug fixes

0.5b1

• removed dependency of mooTools and smooth gallery

• dynamically grabs images

• better controls

• better cross browser support

0.4rc3

• added basic flickr support

0.4rc2

• refactored code to easily add new gallery types

• fails gracefully if gdata isn’t installed

• Now you choose the gallery type

0.3 - Beta

• added support for picasa web albums

• fixed a few bugs

.2beta-r67403 - Beta

• added content type icons

• cleaned up gallery views

.1 - Initial

• Initial release