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TTG Stage

Current version 1.12

SimpleViewer, AutoViewer, SlideShow Pro, MonoSlideshow and more. A plethora of fantastic flash photo galleries, and all sharing a common problem. THEY'RE NAKED!

All the web's a stage,
And your flash galleries merely players:
Dress them up!

TTG Stage provides the dressing: a page template featuring the TTG standard header and menu, auto index support, and more, accepting flash galleries as inline content.

TTG Stage currently supports Airtight Interactive's SimpleViewer, AutoViewer and PostcardViewer, as well as MonoSlideshow, FlashNifties, SlideShow Pro and the Lightroom Flash Gallery. Support for additional galleries will be added in subsequent updates.

TTG Stage 1.12

Download | Sample Gallery | Forum Thread | Installation

Usage

TTG Stage is easy to setup. Configure the template to your liking. Set the stage width and height in the options, choose your Flash gallery from the list of supported galleries and, if you're also using TTG XML Auto Index, select a handful of representative thumbnails from the filmstrip. They'll be exported along with the template for use by the auto index (if you're not using TTG XML Auto Index, feel free to delete the thumbnails folder created by the template on export).

The most important thing is to make sure you choose the correct type of gallery from the list of support Flash galleries, so that the template will know what to look for and where to find it. Your choices are listed in the format "Gallery Name (folder name)", where the folder name is the name of the folder into which the Flash gallery should be copied so that the template can find it.

Next, create and export your Flash gallery.

To put the two pieces together, just copy your Flash gallery into a folder inside the TTG Stage folder. The gallery's folder should be named according to the name given in parentheses above. For example, say you choose to create a SimpleViewer gallery. When setting up TTG Stage, you would select "SimpleViewer (simpleviewer)" from the list. You would then use TTG SimpleViewer Gallery or the Airtight SimpleViewer gallery that ships with LR to export your SimpleViewer gallery. Export the gallery to a folder called simpleviewer (case-sensitive), that being the name specified by TTG Stage, and copy that folder into your exported stage folder.

Run the index.html in your exported TTG Stage, and your Flash gallery will make grand entrance in its new clothes.

Changelog

v1.12 (2008-06-30)
Added support for FlashNifties Gallery.
v1.11 (2008-04-21)
Bug fix.
v1.1 (2008-04-17)
Added support for Lightroom Flash Gallery and PostcardViewer.
New liquid layout mode!
v1.0 (2008-04-11)
Initial release.

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Debbie Silbert
14 July 08 / permalink / feed

Matthew:

I’m really confused about this configuration. Using an example of a SimpleViewer gallery named Jennifer, would you upload the SimpleViewer gallery to Jennifer, then upload Stage to Jennifer as well?? And what about if you already have a SimpleViewer gallery named Steve. How would you then put a stage in place to dress up Steve?

Matthew
14 July 08 / permalink / feed

The TTG Stage folder should be parent to your SimpleViewer folder. Thus, if you wanted a gallery named “Alice”, then you would name your exported TTG Stage folder “Alice” and you would put the SimpleViewer gallery into a folder named “simpleviewer” within “Alice”.

If you’re also using TTG XML Auto Index, then you drop the “Alice” folder inside the auto index folder. The full path for all the galleries would be:

/TTGXMLAutoIndex/Alice/simpleviewer

Got it? ;)

Debbie Silbert
17 July 08 / permalink / feed

Hmm … should there be a “thumbs” directory in Alice and in simpleviewer? I’m not sure where the thumbnails from the Stage are supposed to go, as they aren’t even used, right?

Matthew
17 July 08 / permalink / feed

TTG SimpleViewer Gallery produces a thumbnails folder, as does TTG Stage. TTG Stage’s thumbnails will be used by the Auto Index for the index plate.

Matt R
26 July 08 / permalink / feed

Matthew,

TTGStage renders a little differently in Firefox3 compared to IE7. The menu items get chopped at the bottom in Firefox3. Something to do with the 100% height maybe? Does anybody else see this with simpleviewer gallery?

Thanks,
Matt.

Matthew
26 July 08 / permalink / feed

Are you talking about when fixed stage dimensions are disabled? That mode is a little unstable from browser to browser. The script I’m using isn’t a perfect solution, but there’s no better alternative right now.

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