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05/09/11 05:44 AM (14 years ago)

IMAGE GALLERY IMAGE FOOTER DESCRIPTION for each image in slideshow.

Guys, not sure if this as been suggested before but I am in need of a feature that would let me put some small custom text as a footer note for each image in the slideshow of an image gallery. I want to use the title as 1 of n images as we can do today but then also have a footnote in small font about details of the images. It would really help to describe each of the images. I want this to work for images being displayed for a web URL as we can do today, just add a footer note.
 
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05/09/11 10:20 PM (14 years ago)
Tuesday night's update has some surprised you'll like regarding this exact question ;-)
 
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05/10/11 06:46 AM (14 years ago)
David- If you have time, =oP (or get your secretary to do it, hahaha) could you do a post of some of the new features, fixes that are planned to be implemented in this update? I know you don't want to say a feature is being included and then have to hold it back due to unforeseen issues. I think it would be helpful and the forum stay more tilted towards support/help.
 
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05/10/11 08:38 AM (14 years ago)
Excellent, it will be at the perfect moment. Thanks so much David.
 
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05/10/11 09:52 AM (14 years ago)
@ erichopf: Yes, good idea. I'll get a .PDF up soon with some details.
 
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05/10/11 09:55 AM (14 years ago)
Thanks David, super rad.
 
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05/11/11 10:28 AM (14 years ago)
David is the image footer description feature available yet? Maybe I am not looking for it in the right place? or did you mean it will be in update next Tuesday not yesterday perhaps. Thanks.
 
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05/11/11 11:15 AM (14 years ago)
Miereter- It's there already. It just isn't probably what you were asking for. I believe you were hoping for a smaller text description. That's not really what they were able to implement. It's more of a short title/description. It shows as *Image Title (image description)*
 
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05/11/11 11:17 AM (14 years ago)
Perhaps there is a bug...I made a new app called My Photos witch Schooner 1.5. I only added the icon, then downloaded the source, no issues so far. Next I pulled it into iPhone 4.3 simulator and so far to good. Then I added one image gallery with a image uploader screen on the right top of navbar using the Add + to call the image uploader screen. Now, it is true that the gallery started off completely empty, as my goal is to fill it via the image uploader functionality...but instead I got and error: ~Error~ There was a problem parsing some configuration data. Please make sure that it is well-formed. OK. Is this normal? Perhaps one cannot go directly to use the image uploader when the gallery is still empty? but that would be strange. Advise appreciated.
 
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05/11/11 11:22 AM (14 years ago)
Sounds as if the php script has an issue. This is normal when there is something not defined correctly. A few questions. Did you run the test script? Did you alter the code in the php script to point to your site and folder? Did you change permissions of the folder that is the destination?
 
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05/11/11 11:41 AM (14 years ago)
Well, here is what I found out. 1) it does not matter if you use the image uploader or the Email uploader to facebook, if the image gallery is empty, it throws the ~error~ I mentioned. 2) Once I put in at least 1 image into the gallery, manually, it works fine. Thanks for your suggestions, all good to know.
 
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05/11/11 11:42 AM (14 years ago)
Strange, I only received that error when the php wasn't correctly sorted out. Glad you got it working.
 
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05/11/11 12:33 PM (14 years ago)
Well, yes a bit, but seems to work fine after inserting one image manually via a URL reference. We gotta check sometimes very carefully since some issues happens only once, usually when there is no content but those are technically still bugs ie if a gallery is allowed to be empty I think it should not ~error~ out right?
 
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05/11/11 10:11 PM (14 years ago)
It's a matter of where the images are coming from. If an image gallery is empty (no images) and uses the default buzztouch control panel dataURl there should not be an error and we'll need to look into this if there is. If you're pulling images from another source you'll need to figure out why that source is not creating the JSON. Image Titles: The idea is that the 'title' can also be a 'description', it's a matter of setting the font-size. The title can hold up to two lines of text but can also only use one line. So...Flickr feeds for example only provide single short word descriptions so a font size that matches the navigation bar title seems appropriate - single line. But, if you want to enter longer descriptions, choose a smaller font-size and it will wrap to two lines.
 

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