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Hi,
its more a less a rookie question, but i tried different settings in settings > image and in user themes > image.

Problem: The picture is not resize and the description text (align right) is pushed out of the screen, if the picture is 1000px wide (compared to my screen size of 1444x900).

Example: http://thomasdellert.com/iv/#/content/N ... DGARDE.jpg

Situation

The pictures are normally sized to 1000 px.
The description text is on the right side, setted width 300, min width 300.
The images have a margin of 150, scale fitmargin, scale limit on, scale reset on, original opt off.

Question: i think its something simple, which configuration would be the best to have the highest size of the pictures and a 300 px description on the right.


Thank you

Imagevue is a complex creature, because it needs to fit different sized images, in different aspects, with different margins, on different screen sizes, with different amounts of positions of text.

You may simply need to increase the "image margin" so to add more space to the text, or decrease the minimum size for the text width. In the end of the day, if there is not enough width to display the text in any functional way, Imagevue decides to simply hide it because the image must come first of course.

I am not quite sure how it would work if you have minimum 300px width for the text, and then 150px margin for the image. Imagevue would have problems squashing 300px into 150px. Perhaps try to set a less wide text? Unfortunately, I would have to admit that Imagevue is not optimized for the large amount of text you have per image.

Thanks for the repley.

Question: Is it possible, to set the image margins only for the right and left side (now its in one margin setting for all sites)? maybe through parameters or css.

thanks again in advance.

sebastian

dempan wrote:Question: Is it possible, to set the image margins only for the right and left side (now its in one margin setting for all sites)? maybe through parameters or css.

Unfortunately no :/. Imagevue gallery cannot use CSS for anything else than text formatting. Because of Imagevues focus on center-aligning the photo, and because of different sizes, scaling, aspects and screen resolutions, there simply is no option to set margins separately. Sorry.

mh thats a pity, especially if its actually not a big deal in the self-conception as a former online product manager. i have now, two options:
1. search a new framework. to present an artist work properly.
2. inquire a bug fix. with your help, mjau-mjau.

i love the framework and i think imagevuex has a potential to grow much better and faster. this framework is not only for photographers! dont block your path.

I think you are under-estimating the issue of having a gallery that takes into consideration screen size, screen aspect, image size, image aspect, description, UI and all without scrollbars. After all, margins are made in consideration for something that aligns to either left or right side of the screen, or both ... Imagevue does not - It is centered. If it was to be aligned left or right, everything would be very different.

What about smaller screens like 11" laptops - How will it justify a 400px margin on the right and 200 on the left depending on aspect and without scrollbars? I understand this is an issue for you, but calling is a bug is a bit crude because of the nature of Imagevue.

Even building something like that in html would require some complicated javascript to resize the image inside a given area, and including versatile margine.

Right now, on big screens, your text works fine I assume, and on smaller screens it is cropped. Adding more margin to the right, would require re-positioning (or resizing it?), but only if combination of screen size and image size forces it to.

I am trying to figure a way to effectively display that amount of text on a small screen with an image, and with no scrollbars, but in terms of visually elegant ways, there are not many options based on these limitations.

hi, mjau-mjau are there any news? gruß sebastian

dempan wrote:hi, mjau-mjau are there any news? gruß sebastian

I did write a long explanation as to why things are how they are ... Did you have any thoughts about this?

1. estimating the efforts of course there are problems to solve. but i dont care professionally about efforts, if it comes to business development and creating more customers. actually its in your own interests. i dont think imagevuex should be only a framework for photgraphers with photos and no or small descriptions. (so to speak i did also several years of strategy for one the largest telcos...). i have much more "bugs" and extensions in mind.

2. small and large screens it does not matter if its large or small, i would like to have pictures also in 2000 px in at average screen size of 20 inch. it's not problem only of a laptop screen size.

3. margins i tried several settings, but there is only one margin setting for top, bottom,left and right. i would like to have a setting for all four sides.

4. in the end i can present the photos only in max 500 px size and that would be a pity, actually. but its funny, in html view the problem is more or less solved.

thanks in advance.

gruß sebastian.

It is not that I don't agree with you ... However, Imagevue in its current incarnation simply is not optimized towards long descriptions per image. This is mainly because it is running in flash, without scrollbars, which basically means everything must go onto screen without scrolling, including image, interface, text, menu etc.

Perhaps you can provide me login to your admin and I can take a shot at tweaking it? It might require some adjustments of the textfield width also ...

In future versions, when we proceed to non-flash frontends, we have much more capacity to provide scrollable flexible areas for text descriptions. Currently, in the flash version, it is very inconvenient to try to modify it because of technical reasons that I don't really feel constitutes elaborating further.