The Turning Gate

On my Windows XP, it shows loading then a black screen. The browser preview works though.
Mel

I’ve used slimbox in my joomla installations, and now I can use it in light-room. Thank you,

onno

Hi.. any way to move the identity plate around? I’d love to have it at the top. Also, there appears to be nothing under the “appearance” tab. Clicking it or hitting CMD-3 toggles the arrow but doesn’t reveal any panel information.

Otherwise, very nice and elegant. Thanks!

Brilliant! I have always used Simpleviewer for my galleries, but to be able to quickly configure one with LR is unbelieveably useful.

Now, if we could just get some paypal or ordering info into this template and I’ll sleep much better at night. Any ideas?

Hmm that was li with list-style:none but the li didn’t show.

Darryn:
I don’t think it’s possible to include Paypal in a SimpleViewer gallery without modifying the SimpleViewer core, and that’s well beyond my abilities. Try Sean’s advice!

Sean:
I’ll keep it in mind for a future version.

Blake:
If you’re willing to do some file editing, this comes from the SimpleViewer website.

10: Can I give SimpleViewer a fixed width or height?

Yes. Edit index.html to place viewer.swf inside a div or table cell. Give the div or table a fixed height and width in pixels. Take a look at this example page. The example page gives SimpleViewer a fixed height and allows for a page header and footer. To use this example, save the HTML file to your local SimpleViewer folder.

With your dimensions fixed, you should be able to prevent the viewer from scaling, and you can also create a background image of matching dimensions so that it’s not stretched.

I don’t geddit – RAW files as viewed in Lightroom are typically HUGE. I assumed that this handy wee add-on would naturally shrink the RAW files down to make the webpage but I’ve tried to make a gallery using 70 RAW files and it’s just taking aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages to do anything at all. Clicking Export just creates the folder with swfobject.js and a textedit read me.

Lightroom says there are two operation in progress – it’s trying to open a RAW file in the preview in Lightroom, AND export the web page. What’s going on? Would I be better using Photoshop Image Processor to make JPGs and then throwing those jpgs into (shudder) iPhoto to make a simpleviewer page? I hate what iPhoto does to my organisation though. That would be a last resort. Stupid iPhoto.

hm.. i have a little problem, i can´t see galleries made in lightroom in internet explorer 6. and in the 7 it`s give me troubles but i can see it. Do you have this kind of problems?. Everything work just fine in firefox.

Wow!! it’s awsome. I have tried it with Adobe lightroom. Thanks a lot to the whole team who has developed this.

Mr. 2005,
Yes, I plan on putting out an Autoviewer gallery for LR at some point. I’ve just gotten busy with other things. Will get to it when I can.

To remove the SimpleViewer name/download button you need to purchase SimpleViewer Pro from Airtight Interactive and replace the files in my distributable gallery with the pro versions.

Fred,
Captions are handled from inside SimpleViewer and there’s nothing I can do to reposition them. I could have them come up in the HTML outside of SimpleViewer, but they’d be so far removed from the images (due to the size of the flash content area) that it would be awkward, to say the least. Have you tried my Slimbox gallery? You might like the captioning better.

Thanks, Matthew. Caption in Slimbox is exactly what I’m after. Unfortunately I don’t like the siingle long page of thumbnails that one ends up with. I guess I’ll go over to the Airtight Interactive site and see if I can’t bug them into doing something.

This is a great thing that you’re doing, by the way. I hope you keep at it.

Again Matthew, great work on the update.

Re the speed of gallery creation. The issue is as you’ve mentioned, Matthew, each RAW file is converted and then resized to create the gallery. Long galleries take time.
We could suggest to the team that maybe for gallery creation, they should resize the already existing previews to speed it up (at least for the internal previews anyway).

Crisha,

If your extraction software creates a new folder to house archive contents, please make sure you’re copying the correct folder – the one from inside the archive, and not the one created by your extraction software – into your Lightroom file structure.

Also, if you haven’t already done so, you will need to create the Web Galleries folder at the path explained in my installation instructions. Please be sure you’ve created this folder in the appropriate location and that you have NOT copied the folder into the Web Templates directory.

If you’re still having problems, please email me.

probably a silly question, but i am looking for the master index.html which is used as a basis to generate a site, i would like to use the simpleviewer but with a standard html header which contains all my stuff, i can’t seem to find this file.

Matt,
I noticed as can be seen in the link above, that the thumbnails are center crops of the pictures. This leads to lots of BAD looking thumbnails. Is there a way, or is this a limitation of SimpleViewer, to have the thumbnails whole pictures rather than an arbitrary crop (yes there are then issues about packing thumbnails..

Thanks,
Patrick

hello, i have a problem. i have many different galleries and the gallery index file should have the name of the gallery.for example..arizona.html ore utah.html.the other gallery files are in the folders ..arizona ore utah….in one word..is it possible to keep the index.html file in the root directory and the other files in the galley folder.i have to correct the path..i guess..
thanks for helping me!

Hi Matthew,
You did a great job! Especially the “TTG SimpleViewerBasic” is fantastic :)

I like the easy way to create a gallery from within LR and would like to use it as a fundamental part of my homepage.
To low the number of images I would like to use several galleries and refer to the viewer.swf in my index.php

Is there any way to change the imagePath in the gallery.xml using a general subdirectory and the subfolder’s name of LR when uploading with ftp?
e.g.: imagePath=“galeries/test1/bin/images/images/”
instead of
imagePath=“bin/images/images/”

In this case “test1” would be the subdirectory named for ftp in LR.

Of course, the gallery would not work with the origin index.html anymore, but I do not want to change the directory after every gallery-update manually.

P.S.: I just found the lines in the transformer.xslt where the directory is defined.

NOW THERE IS JUST ONE QUESTION LEFT: Is there a variable which I can use with imagePath=“directory/{$v_name}/bin/images/images/” to create the path?

Thanks for your help.

Christoph

Thanks Matthew!!

Christoph

Christoph,
For including SimpleViewer in your own pages, use the Basic version of the gallery. You can set the dimensions to an appropriate size using the Flash Content Width and Flash Content Height controls.

After exporting the gallery, copy lines 22-30 from the index.html file and paste them into your own page template where you want the gallery to appear. Also, copy the style commands from lines 11-19 and paste them into the Head of your page template.

Finally, be sure to copy the viewer.swf, swfobject.js and gallery.xml files, and the bin folder to the location of your page template.

That done, it should work just fine.

Let me know how it works out for you, and please send over a URL for the finished result.

I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but it doesn’t work on my Lightroom. I followed the instructions and am able to see both on the web templates but the pictures are only a black big square, or what’s the same, no pictures in spite of having them selected.

Any ideas of the failure?

thanks

Hi Matthew!
Sean McC wrote in his blog about SimpleViewer for LR with preview (for windows aswell)
http://seanmcfoto.com/lightroom/2007/06/new-for-web-airtight-interactive-web.html
(original post: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2007/06/airtight_interactive_web_galle.html )
I downloaded it, but there are only very few options. Is it possible to combine both templates?

Christoph

David,

Glad you like it. There’s isn’t a variable for that, unfortunately. I’ve included support for all available variables in the Output Settings.

Cheers,
Matthew

Matthew, this is great, thanks very much for making this available.
I am wondering if it is possible to show both the Caption and the Title of each photo, for some reason I only seem to be able to see one or the other, or have I set it up incorrectly?
Cheers

Dear Matthew, thank you very much for your great job. I don’t know whether it is possible or not, but I think it would be quite useful if you could include a few extra “html parameters” in your interface: for example a field “keywords” that would create in the output html file a metatag keyword: META NAME=“KEYWORDS” CONTENT=“photo, etc …
Does it make sens?
Thank you again!
Cheers,
A

Hi Matt,

The only thing that leaps out and screams “Broken!!” to me is the comment tags. In XSLT, you can’t use <!— and —> to mark comments. You need to replace them with <xsl:comment> and </xsl:comment>, respectively.

Try this:

	
<xsl:comment>Start of StatCounter Code</xsl:comment>

<script type=“text/javascript” language=“javascript”>

var sc_project=xxxxx;

var sc_invisible=x;

var sc_partition=xx;

var sc_security=“xxxxxxx”;

</script>

	
<script type=“text/javascript” language=“javascript” src=” http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js”></script><noscript><a href=“http://www.statcounter.com/ “ target=”_blank”><img  src=” http://c26.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=xxxxxx&java=0&security=xxxxxx&invisible=0” alt=“website metrics” border=“0”></a> </noscript>

<xsl:comment>End of StatCounter Code</xsl:comment>

Other than that, the only other thing I can think of is that Lightroom is hitting roadblocks because of the javascript itself. Lightroom doesn’t like it when your gallery attempts to contact an outside website. Unfortunately, every time you preview a page with this script, the page is attempting to contact www.statcounter.com to make a visitor report. This being the case, it might not be possible to embed the code into the xslt file. You might try using the Preview in Browser button, though, and see whether it will load that way.

Of course, all of this also assumes you're using the HTML version of the SimpleViewer gallery. I expect you could probably put your code (your version, not my version) into the index.html file of the Flash version of the gallery and it should work fine, because the Flash gallery never actually loads the index.html file into the Lightroom preview. The preview only loads the SWF file, and the index.html file just gets copied over on export. Try it!

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Matt

No, the transformer files need to coincide with the gallerymaker.xml files, and the files are (necessarily) very different between the two versions.

Here’s an idea, though: edit the index.html file in the Flash version of the template. Add your statcounter code, and make any other changes you’d like – add a header, or copy the header from an exported HTML-version gallery (don’t forget the CSS), etc.

Use the Flash version in Lightroom. When you export, it will use the index.html file you’ve modified and should all work out in the end.

Vincent,

Some of what you’re asking would require edits to the SimpleViewer SWF file. If you purchase SimpleViewer Pro, you’ll get the source and can then make whatever adjustments you like at that level. From within Lightroom, using the free version and lacking the know how to make changes in Flash, these are limitations that must be accepted.

Other points we can address, however, if you’re willing to work with code.

1) Line breaks at page’s end: You can make adjustments to the index.html file in your exported gallery, or open the transformer.xslt file in the gallery archive and add line breaks. An alternative method would be to make CSS changes, adding margin to the bottom of the ID plate div (#idplate, if I remember correctly).

2) Bold the contact link: Use CSS. You can modify the exported stylesheet, or open gallerymaker.xml and do it there. Just set <cite>font-weight: bold;</cite> for the contact link; in gallerymaker.xml, you’ll have to adjust the syntax to match the other entries.

Cheers,
Matthew

Dave,
The viewer isn’t finding the image files. Did you upload the entire gallery? Did you make any changes to file or folder names or locations?

I use Firefox on a Mac and never have a problem. Something is wrong with the way you have it setup on your server.

Linda,

The gallery description is a part of the SimpleViewer viewer and appears as specified within the SWF file. This is not something that can be modified via Lightroom, HTML or CSS. To change the appearance of the description, you’ll need to first purchase SimpleViewer Pro from <a href=“http://www.airtightinteractive.com”>Airtight Interactive</a> and then edit the text properties in the FLA file using Flash.

Hi Dave,

I tried exporting HTML and Flash galleries from my library, and both galleries worked fine in Firefox. Can you zip up your gallery and email it to me so I can have a look? I’ll send you a message.

Sounds like you need to upgrade your version of Lightroom. The Flash versions of my galleries require Lightroom 1.1 or higher.

Hi Syd,

I’m not sure whether LR will play nicely with PHP in its transformer file, but give this a try:

For the HTML version, crack open the transformer.xml and locate all the references to index.html using a Find All command. Change instances of index.html to index.php.

For the Flash version, crack open the gallery.xml file, change index.html to index.php. Next, change the filename of the included index.html file to index.php. Open the file and make whatever additional changes you’d like to the code.

Chuck,

Glad you’re liking it. In reply to your questions:

From the SimpleViewer FAQ: “SimpleViewer is designed for viewing at most around 50 images per gallery. More images than this can cause slow performance on older machines, as all the images are loaded into memory simultaneously. Try splitting your gallery into multiple sub-galleries.”

The thumbnails cannot by modified in the free version, but I believe you can setup your own thumbnail behavior in the Pro version.

SimpleViewer Pro will work with the LR template, but the extended options cannot be modified from within LR. The LR gallery generates the gallery’s XML file and can therefore only modify options available to SimpleViewer via XML. The Pro version’s extended features are not controlled from the XML file, but are embedded within the SWF file itself. In order to modify the settings, you need to republish the SWF file with your changes. That file can then be used as a part of your LR generated gallery. For full information on modifying SimpleViewer Pro, visit Airtight Interactive.

Wilson,

PicLens won’t work with SimpleViewer. It requires an HTML interface, and SimpleViewer is Flash.

As for Auto Index support, yes, but likely not for some time yet. Lightroom’s Flash galleries are still written in XML/XSLT. The HTML galleries are written in Lua. When Lightroom eventually supports Lua-based Flash galleries, I’ll begin conversions. At that time, they will also be enabled for use with the Auto Index.

Debbie,

Regarding TTG SimpleViewer Gallery, the background color doesn’t show within the Web module, but should work in an exported gallery.

If you’re using SimpleViewer with TTG Stage, then you need to set the background color in the settings for TTG Stage instead.