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[request] Needed: lightbox-style article-image picker
OK, this one is long overdue…
I’m willing to sponsor the development of a nice visual article image picker that would behave in the following way.
- Add an “add image” group to the left side of the write page, similar to bas_img_select
- This would contain a category select for specifying an image category from the list
- On release, a lightbox style pane would cover the screen in a semi-opaque manner
- This would contain smallish (75px square) cropped thumbnails of all the images in that category
- With a mechanism for overflow
- And optionally a multi-select capability
- Click on an add button to add image(s) to article image field.
- [edit] it should also show the currently associated image(s) if present as thumbs.
I’ll pledge $100 to make this happen, and hopefully others will consider this idea useful enough to jump in and pledge as well.
Dev-Bait currently ($250 USD)
- mrdale $100
- lee $50
- renobird $50
- masa $50
Last edited by mrdale (2008-06-11 20:56:35)
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#2 2008-06-11 16:23:48
- lee
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+$50
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Atta boy, lee (I’m assuming the beleaguered $USD)
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I’m in for $50. – depending on who’s developing.
(Read: still bitter over textcommerce dying on the vine.)
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Great idea Dale!
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Tom
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Yep, I threw some cash into textcommerce. Daohm!
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Just chimed in to point to some resources (that is, already written code) that could make this task easier for the brave man/woman who has the guts.
wet_quicklink: a kind of lightbox for inserting links on articles. It would be pretty cool if TXP core itself provides built-in way of creating “jquery ajaxy widgets” which plugins could re-utilize without re-inventing the wheel.
upm_image_popper: it’s like the old fashion way of doing what mrdale is asking. A pop up window with already uploaded images and many ways of insert it on the article body or appended/attached as artice images.
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maniqui wrote:
Good resources, but FWIW here’s what I don’t like about upm,upm_image_popper: it’s like the old fashion way of doing what mrdale is asking. A pop up window with already uploaded images and many ways of insert it on the article body or appended/attached as artice images.
- too much info in the picker
- page reloads in a popup or a tab (firefox)
I envision a really simple, direct and intuitive scenario, that keeps semi-visible the page you’re working on and returns you to it when the task is done.
Last edited by mrdale (2008-06-11 16:38:04)
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Dale,
Are thinking of a thickbox like approach?
(see towards the bottom: Ajax Content > Demos > Scrolling Content)
That would be pretty amazing.
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yep I guess scrolling would be simpler than paging.
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Going out on a limb here…
I vote we attempt to recruit Hakjoon.
He did a great tutorial on the squared eye site using jquery to submit forms via ajax. I feel like he’d do a great job with this….Not that there aren’t a ton of other folks who do great work as well…just thought I’d throw my vote out there.
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renobird wrote:
I vote we attempt to recruit Hakjoon.
No! Do not distract mr.joon, he has far more important work to do… Neither shalt thou distract mr.igner… LOL
Last edited by mrdale (2008-06-11 16:59:10)
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#12 2008-06-11 17:01:45
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I’m not easily distracted…hey, look a penny.
And that cloud looks like a monkey.
Back in a while, I think I hear the ice cream truck.
And then my dog ate my badger, and the love was lost.
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