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Hi everybody...

I hope someone can help me with these few issues I have before launchin tonight actually

1) A few of the images have an aspect ratio of lets say around 1500 wide and 800 high. When viewed they are shown under the main menu, thereby hiding part of the image and the title. What I have done as a (hopefully) temporary workaround is to import to photoshop increase canvas size and add a frame compensating for the size. But then in the gallery it doesn't look ideal. See here:
http://www.ragnarh.net/#/Sculptures%20a ... Marcus.jpg
Is there another workaround for this?

2) In description text, when I hit the return (or add a <p> tag it shows as jumping two lines instead of one. So I only have the choice of a huge space between pararaphs, or none at all, thereby having all the text all cramped together.

3) Globally, because of the long texts in some places, I have set the image description to appear on the right side og the image as here:
http://www.ragnarh.net/#/Sculptures%20a ... 0Light.jpg
However, in other folder, I would like to have the (much shorter) descriptions under the title of the photo, making it look better. Is this possible?

I don't know, if I should post these as separate issues, but first, I try this way.

I will appreciate any help on this

Tobias

tobs wrote:1) A few of the images have an aspect ratio of lets say around 1500 wide and 800 high. When viewed they are shown under the main menu, thereby hiding part of the image and the title. What I have done as a (hopefully) temporary workaround is to import to photoshop increase canvas size and add a frame compensating for the size. But then in the gallery it doesn't look ideal. See here:
http://www.ragnarh.net/#/Sculptures%20a ... Marcus.jpg
Is there another workaround for this?

Did you not have another example? In the link you provided, the image fits nicely with lots of margin even on my small 13" screen because it is a small image. Where are your other images?


Since I can't find any other images like the ones you are talking about, allow me to explain how it works in general. Because of various screen sizes and various image sizes, the images will generally be scaled down to fit within a certain margin on the visitors screen. Now, I am not quite sure what settings you are using, but you have designed your menu to stick quite far out to the right ... so how are we supposed to deal with this? You can increase margins for the image so that it doesnt underlap the menu, but then the image may get very small on smaller screens. In the end of the day, Imagevue allows a lot of changes to the interface and design, but if you expand items, have large images, you can't expect them to display flawlessly on smaller screens without compromising ... Methods to improve this: Minimize your menu, move it more to the left, dont set it to stay open (which you seem to have done) as there is a reason why we close it by default to keep the stage available mostly for the image ... also, you can increase margins for the image, but that may make the images smaller.

tobs wrote:2) In description text, when I hit the return (or add a <p> tag it shows as jumping two lines instead of one. So I only have the choice of a huge space between pararaphs, or none at all, thereby having all the text all cramped together.

This is normal for text editor: return/enter creates a new paragraph, and paragraphs have "breather" space between them. If you want a single line-break, then use shift+enter (which creates a <br>).

tobs wrote:3) Globally, because of the long texts in some places, I have set the image description to appear on the right side og the image as here:
http://www.ragnarh.net/#/Sculptures%20a ... 0Light.jpg
However, in other folder, I would like to have the (much shorter) descriptions under the title of the photo, making it look better. Is this possible?

You can try to go to admin -> settings -> text.text1.style ... Set it to "auto". Optionally, you can force the placement on a per-folder basis with folder parameters. Something like this:

Thanks loads for your quick reply

1) Yeah I know it looks ok as it is, but that is because I photoshop-framed it and filled the canvas with grey color as the theme of imagevue. Before doing that it went all over the menu. This means it has to frames, so if you compare it to most other images in the gallery it is displayed diffrently and hence I loose, consequence there. I know it kind of works all right. But I think I understand what you are saying in terms of how it works in image vue. I was using bananalbum flash gallery before and there the menu is a separate entity, preventing images from overlapping ever. Having said that, I far prefer imagevue now. BUt that is a nice feature he managed to implement.

2) Thanks a lot Mjau-mjau

3)
Ups... that doesn't look right...
With that folder parameter the texts overlap....
http://www.ragnarh.net/#/Paintings/Abst ... 20Dali.jpg


Cheers,

#3 ... Not quite sure what is wrong. This is what I see:

You are using 2 text elements, which is fine, and it works fine in this example you showed also. Obviously, you need to plan properly where you want the text to display. Personally, I think it looks distracting splitting the text into two areas - What is the point? Can't you just have the smaller description below the title? More convenient for the reader, and looks cleaner ...

Hi Mjau-mjau...

Yes you are totally right, and that is exactly my problem.

If the description is long it looks better as it is (with descriptions to the right):
http://www.ragnarh.net/#/Sculptures%20a ... Heaven.jpg

If it is short, I want to do as you suggest, have description right under title.
But I don't seen to manage to do that, the code you gave me (image.text.text1.style=above), puts the description right behind the title instead of just under.
(It looked like that in the example I included in my last post, but had to correct it to right side as the website launched today. But would love to have that working.

Cheers,

Tobias

tobs wrote:If it is short, I want to do as you suggest, have description right under title.
But I don't seen to manage to do that, the code you gave me (image.text.text1.style=above), puts the description right behind the title instead of just under.

Yes, because you did not indicate that you were using two separate text blocks. The entire point of 2 or more text blocks, is that they can be aligned to separate locations ... They will not just build on top of each other if placed int he same location. If you are placing them int he same location, then why are you using 2x text elements int he first place? Just use one, display both title+description (and any other text items you want), and it will display in a single block without overlaying.

So if you want some folders with some text displayed in a separate element with a different alignment, then you would need to use the 2nd text element for only the folders where you want them separate.

There is no automatic approach to this unfortunately ... If you revert to using a single text element, and then set it to auto, it will set the entire text either above the image (landscape), or on the right side (portrait). It may not produce exactly what you are looking for, but it will keep a single textblock, not overlay text elements, and try to get everything to fit.