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

gallery module

James Cooley Jul 16, 2003 3:03 PM

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

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Charles W. Stanton Sep 15, 2003 8:44 PM (in response to James Cooley)

Any progress or feedback on that gallery module? I think it sounds like a great idea!
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Viet Sep 16, 2003 1:05 AM (in response to James Cooley)

no news so far ... I would have liked it
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valarr Sep 16, 2003 5:15 AM (in response to James Cooley)

I find the idea great. I would help in development or integration of such module.
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Viet Sep 16, 2003 6:29 AM (in response to James Cooley)

who wants to do it ?
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James Cooley Sep 24, 2003 6:18 AM (in response to James Cooley)

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
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Viet Sep 24, 2003 5:12 PM (in response to James Cooley)

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
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Widura Schwittek Jan 31, 2004 4:43 AM (in response to James Cooley)

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.
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Widura Schwittek Jan 31, 2004 5:46 AM (in response to James Cooley)

oh sorry, I put the message into the wrong discussion. so how is your progress, jcooley? do you need any help?
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Viet Feb 1, 2004 9:46 AM (in response to James Cooley)

he's not done anythin so far, again a big mouth
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James Cooley Feb 4, 2004 8:01 AM (in response to James Cooley)

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
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