10 Replies Latest reply on Feb 4, 2004 8:01 AM by jcooley

    gallery module

    jcooley

      Has anyone started working on a gallery module?

      The Java Digital Album Infrastructure (http://www.jdai.dk/) might be useful as it can do things like create thumbnails. It has a Swing and an webapp interface so you can manipulate and create a description your images easily with the Swing app and them display them on the net using the webapp.

      The webapp is in CVS and hasn't been released but I use it for a personal website and it works well.

      I imagine a gallery module isn't a top priority but I'll try to start integrating JDAI with Nukes over the next couple of weeks and see how well they work together. I think if we can achieve anything like the postnukes gallery http://gallery.menalto.com/ we'll have a great little system.

      James

        • 1. Re: gallery module
          cwstanton

          Any progress or feedback on that gallery module? I think it sounds like a great idea!

          • 2. Re: gallery module

            no news so far ... I would have liked it

            • 3. Re: gallery module
              valarr

              I find the idea great. I would help in development or integration of such module.

              • 4. Re: gallery module

                who wants to do it ?

                • 5. Re: gallery module
                  jcooley

                  Sorry I haven't moved on this but it's a background task and I haven't had a lot of time to spend on it. The work I have done already uses JSPs based on work in JDAI to generate the gallery. I figured I'd get back to it after the September Nukes release that may support JSPs.

                  Looking at the feature list for the nukes module I mentioned there's quite a bit of work here.

                  http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=Gallery%20Features

                  Personally I'd like to start with a simple system that can

                  1. serve pics from nested directories on my filesystem
                  2. generate 800x600
                  3 generate thumbnails for an auto listing page
                  4. allow me to annotate the pics (add titles etc)
                  5. allow me to restrict who can access the photos

                  More advanced features like

                  6. adding comments to pictures
                  7. picture viewing stats
                  8. view exif details
                  9. skins
                  10. rotate image

                  Other enhancements would be easier

                  11. slideshows

                  Features like

                  12. uploading pictures

                  could wait IMHO.

                  If someone else wants to take this up that's fine with me. Personally I haven't looked too deeply into Nukes internals so I could use guidance on

                  a. a stable tag to work from
                  b. an example module to base this on


                  I could get 1-5 done reasonably quickly. The other features will require more time and can be shared with however is interested. If someone can point me at (a) and (b) I'll try to get started but don't let that stop anyone else who wants to do it.

                  James

                  • 6. Re: gallery module

                    a : usually the nukes HEAD is stable, meaning it compiles and runs. I have created a branch in the CVS today called : Nukes_Branch_0_9 to have a stable version.

                    b: you can start by looking at the various modules that have been developped so far. The easiest is the template module, after you can look at others like mp3player, news, sections, etc...

                    julien

                    • 7. Re: gallery module
                      widura

                      Hallo,

                      I just want to know about the development status of the "picture" module. I also think that to port it from the phpgallery as GadgetGirl suggested is a good idea. If there is already a project running and/or help needed, I would like to know. I just can't find any thread younger than june 2003 which sounds very dead. Otherwise I can look for start porting it.

                      • 8. Re: gallery module
                        widura

                        oh sorry, I put the message into the wrong discussion. so how is your progress, jcooley? do you need any help?

                        • 9. Re: gallery module

                          he's not done anythin so far, again a big mouth

                          • 10. Re: gallery module
                            jcooley

                            I haven't done anything on this. It didn't feel right coding what is basically a Servlet after being used to JSTL, CSS and the like with Struts. I like the JMX core idea of Nukes but I don't think I'll have time to take this any further.

                            Good luck,

                            James