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Nondo wrote:I'm curious if detailed thumbnails will be created in a more polished version? Right now when I mouse over an image in my gallery a pixelated thumbnail pops up.

Thanks for the feedback, I think your not alone with this opinion including myself(although I made it that way XD). There is a slight paradox involved with scaling thumbnails on rollover:

Images are scaled from 100% to 130% on rollover - Of course it could be changed so that the scale is from 50% to 100% instead, but I feel that makes thumbnails much smaller in static display compared to how large they are loaded. I'll at least add a setting so this can be changed from theme config, and maybe change default behaviour in themes.

Of course, we do not need to use scaling as rollover effect on the thumbnail. It can be turned off in theme config at thumbnails.thumbnail.active_scale - Set it to 100.

Also, you can enable the alpha effect instead:
thumbnails.thumbnail.active_opacity - Set it below 100, f.eks 75.

I appreciate any feedback on thumbnails interactivity! How do you want it?

I'm agree the thumbnails on rollover are not very beautiful

Actually I set up thumbnails to 150*150 and rollover to 120% so imagevue scale up the thumbnail to 180*180px.

Karl what do you think about that solution :

not to scale up thumbnail on rollover but create (automatic in admin) 2 thumbnails :

example :

tn1_pix.jpg at 150px for general thumbail
tn2_pix.jpg at 180px (120%) used only by the rollover

MikeR wrote:not to scale up thumbnail on rollover but create (automatic in admin) 2 thumbnails :

example :

tn1_pix.jpg at 150px for general thumbail
tn2_pix.jpg at 180px (120%) used only by the rollover

I think that is wasting resources. Not only will thumbnails load at half speed(because it must make 2 calls for every thumbnail), but it also hogs away at memory resources available to flash.

I think the only solution it to make bigger thumbnails, then set them for example to 50% as default, and scale up to 100% on rollover. I am also slightly unsure if everyone like scale at all - Tried the alpha effect? How about a blur effect on rollover?

if you could to that it would be great (100% for rollover and scale down for thumbnails).

I've tried the alpha effect but I prefer the rollover function

I'm getting around that (for now) by having a Very slight increase on rollover, about 110%. Doesn't look so bad that way.

Nondo wrote:I really do like the rollover effect I just wish the thumbnails had more details. I agree it would be a waste of resources to create separate thumbnails but that is what I had in mind. I am interested in seeing the 50/100 method.

I agree this might be an interesting "compromise", so i will add it in todo list.

Nondo wrote: Also mjau-mjau, there seems to be a weird bug if you set the active scale to something like 50%. My thumbnail is pulsing back and forth from 100% to 50%.

Thats because the thumbnail itself is a button, and when it scales down, it removes itself from the mouse icon. Therefore it jumps inbetween rollOver and rollOut status =)