Improving TXP Image Management

marios · 2006-07-22 23:55:38

Offer for the TM licenses is still valid for anyone working on this.
contact through forum mail.

regards, marios

TheEric · 2006-07-23 01:54:42

I’ve been working on a ‘classic gallery’ (3 tiered Album List -> Thumbnails -> Image w/ commenting and exif support) plugin for a while now, and I’m approaching a point where I’m almost complete. I haven’t included any image manipulation features (yet) but I have developed a modified version of aba-import for multiple image uploads. I expect to ask for a couple people to test this plugin shortly (ebl_gallery, and ebl_upload), and will be releasing it as a ransom sometime by mid August to possibly the first week of September.

I’ve also been working on a moblog plugin as well, but haven’t worked on this plugin lately (base64 image encoding has been giving me issues)

The gallery that I have been working on can be found here

Ignore the lack of styling and CSS. I haven’t spent much time making it all look pretty and have instead been working on making it all work.

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I’ve been toying with a couple ideas for image manipulation, and have come to the conclusion that a flash based image handling plugin would be ideal (think flickr) as it would allow near instant response to cropping / rotating / resizing / undo / redo, and be a bit more intuitive than most other setups.

jameslomax · 2006-07-24 21:48:50

Sounds good to me.
Not sure what more to say, except I look forward to seeing it. I don’t know if Flash is good or bad for image editing; so long as it works and its robust, then fine.

What about the image navigation – how are you building that? Some work’s already been done and its already been discussed (read this thread) , and one of the key things to remember is we need to break away from the default txp one-column layout, which is bad design.

TheEric · 2006-07-24 23:06:13

I haven’t done much of anything in regards to administrative image functions, except for an upload plugin that’s fairly simple.

I’ve just been working on a public side image gallery plugin w/ an administrative side that details how everything should be displayed.

Last edited by TheEric (2006-07-25 00:24:13)

TheEric · 2006-07-25 03:40:25

I just toyed with a flash action-script batch load bit, and came up with http://www.syserror.net/batchuploads

It’s a non-Java based, multiple image image upload flash file that calls a php script upon the upload completion. (resize, auto-thumbnail, auto-import, etc) Anyone interested in any further work on this?

Ace of Dubs · 2006-07-25 18:46:54

A little late getting in on this discussion, but since I see that so few people have actually posted in the requested format, (why does everyone do this?) I will toss my two cents into the ring I use photos in my

Client Sites – In thumbnail gallery format to showcase events.
Personal – Portfolio with paginated snapshots

These are what I think are limitations in the current TXP system of handling/posting images

Naming convention of ID numbers stinks. You should be able to name your images decide where they live.
No resizing capabilities out the box

I would like to see the following functionality

Built-in synchronization with a designated folder. (This has been attempted with various plugins, but so far none of them work with my install of 4.0.3.)
Built-in Resizing of images / generation of thumbnails

I would like to help think through the implications of such functionality in this way

Visual comps when I have some time
Endless rambling on the subject till we hammer out a solution

That’s about all for now…I’m sure I will think of more to add

squaredeye · 2006-07-25 19:02:55

Ace of Dubs,
in case you are a Mac user, there are Textmate licenses available to people who help.

Right now we are waiting on a writeup my Nils and Alex, and possibly one from guiguibonbon and Jameslomax? Most important on the list is getting article type functionality for the image tags for greater control over galleries etc.

Next is handling the image area in new ways via plugins. This includes organization, thumb handling, editing, etc. Check out the WIKI for more on “image handling”.

wet · 2006-07-25 19:22:13

Probably useful bits’n‘pieces: 1, 2.

Ace of Dubs · 2006-07-25 20:00:10

@ Matt,

I already bought Textmate to take advantage of Marios TXP bundle, but I honestly dont mind lending a hand as payback for the awesome support here. Having said that, (and after reading the entire contents of this thread) it seems the lot of you have things under control already.

@ Wet,

Although I can only understand half of the PHP code there, this looks VERY insteresting! Seems like they are building the image resize into core at long last. Hooray! :D

hakjoon · 2006-07-25 20:28:23

Ace of Dubs wrote:
Although I can only understand half of the PHP code there, this looks VERY insteresting! Seems like they are building the image resize into core at long last. Hooray! :D

Some image resizing is already there at least for creating thumbnails. I think this is doing the resizing on upload now which is much appreciated.

I think I still had greenrift’s original hack in place until 4.0.3 because I missed the auto resizing too much.

Last edited by hakjoon (2006-07-25 20:28:36)

marios · 2006-07-26 16:58:01

I know, this might be a little silly of a comment, and makes me feel a little bad to bloat this thread even more.I’ve got no Idea what is in the works, but observed the following on my blog install on a default 4.0.3
So I make it short:

1)I have around 700 Images in that database, so what’s really troublesome then in some circumstances, is the page load time, if selected to many per page( under content images )
In other words, an optimization feature to get to a minimal file-size to display the images from content Images, would be
useful as well. (may be adjustable from prefs, for those who need quality display)
2) Per page selection url links per page would have been useful in that case, instead of going back and forth each time.
3)The display of the Image ID’s as well ( In case that they are kept for the new image handling)
4)Per category display selection makes it easier to work with images on a per article basis.

Just my observations. I’m sure most of that is already taken care of, so just ignore my post then.

regards, marios

colak · 2006-07-26 18:58:08

I am with you Marios! Also maybe a search function for images might be a cool addition.

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