[Theme] Tien for Gallery2

If you want a horizontaly repeating image I usually make the image 1 px wide. If for some reason that looks weird (it happened ones..) I make it 1 px wide then stretch it to 10px wide or whatever. This way you'll allways nbe sure that the left side matches the right side of your image. If I have a repeating pattern I cut the pattern in half and past the right side to the other side of the left side and start smoothing out the difference (or whatever method works the best in each specific case) then I leave it that way or undo the 'cut-in-half'

Things that will prevent the problem you are having with the images...
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HI RWK,
I do want to use this theme for a top page, and don;t mind that it has no thumbnails there.

Two changes I'd like to do, but cannot see how to.
* Make the font larger. I know you'll have a good reason for setting it like this but it would be nice to be able to set the text size.

* reduce from two columns to one. When I tried to reset the number in Edit Album/ theme, it took no notice.

BTW when you do add thumbs as an option, Could minithumbs be one option. They would have the effect of being interesting buttons while not expanding the page too much.

Blessings,
Gaynor

I think that this is since a few days the wrong place to ask support questions on a certain theme. Support question cannow be asked in the 3rd party support forum. Except the likelyhood of me reading them gets smaller. Perhaps pm-ing me pointing out the topic helps in such cases.

gaynormcc,
Nice ideas. I might do those things you suggest. I was working for a large German project which has been terminated for unclear reasons and might be in between jobs for a few days, perhaps I will find the time to do some changes then.
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I've updated the theme so now -finally- there is an option to choose to show the thumbnails for albums instead of the little folder.
I came across the request for this options many times, so I hope you'll like it!
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mcdermottscott,
Actually you were not entirely correct on the first solution, that's a screwup of me where it should have been $child.descendantCount or something similar. I fixed that for version 0.1.5

The other thing I am not going to changeright now. I do not see why...
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Yep, it most certainly is the links that are causing the problems. When I turn on the Show album thumbnails (nice feature BTW!), it gives this error for linked items:

Notice: Undefined index: frameType in W:\Pictures\albums\smarty\templates_c\%%981363278\%%2E^2E0^2E00E176%%album.tpl.php

And it shows the earlier error at the bottom of the page. I can give you more details and access to the site if you are interested in fixing this bug. But you might want to wait and see with the new version of Gallery...

Chrisrub,
So you want each subalbum to be on a new line?
Then you shouldn't add <br/> elements but change the css instead.
here's how:

Change the file theme.css inside the tien drectory;

Change the lines:

ul.albumsListingSubalbums li {
	display: inline;
	margin-right: 6px;
}

ul.albumsListingSubalbums li a {
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

ul.albumsListingSubalbums li ul {
	display: inline;
	margin-right: 6px;
}

into

ul.albumsListingSubalbums li a {
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

ul.albumsListingSubalbums li ul {
	margin-left: 6px;
}

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Nope, still doesn't work with the new version. Plus, there are some significant changes to make to get the code to work with 2.10. 'GalleryStatus' is gone, so a bunch of return calls break (set to null, I think). And "$ret->isError()" becomes just "$ret".

I just noticed that the Classic theme gives a similar error (Notice: Undefined index: _classNamein W:\Pictures\albums\smarty\templates_c\%%981363278\%%BF^BFD^BFDF4CFD%%album.tpl.php on line 76). Didn't find this error on the forum either. Thoughts?

This is an unfortunate error which accidentally happened while copying pieces of code inside the templates. I think I've fixed it now (v1.6) 
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What is the link items module? I do not remember having it installed, what would be needed to support it? 
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RwD, you don't need anything special for linkitems to work in your theme.. here is the only change matrix theme made:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gallery/gallery2/themes/matrix/templates/album.tpl?r1=1.12&r2=1.12.2.1
This just makes it use the selected imageframe for albums when showing a linkitem.

um... what? Is that code in Tien theme? what is it for and why does it cause problems with linkitem? what i posted above is accurate for themes in general.. if tien theme does something different then maybe it needs something else.

A linkitem is a GalleryItem so it should load like any other child item.. it is not a GalleryAlbumItem nor a GalleryDataItem, so maybe that confuses some code in Tien theme.

LinkItem extends Item.. this is what makes sense. It is not a DataItem, it has no data file; it is not a real album, you can't set a theme for it, it has no child items, etc. It has just a title, summary, etc and its own property, the target link.. this can be another album or an external URL. A core.ShowItem request for a LinkItem causes a redirect to its target.

if $child.link is numeric then it links to an album, otherwise it is an external URL. a dataitem type of link (the "Create Link" option) is a normal GalleryDataItem.

I was running this morning and suddenly I got this thought about a problem to include linkItems into the theme. It is so that linkItem extends Item which is ok. But the problem is os that my theme thinks completely in a completely different fashion from all the others. Standard in Gallery2 there is no distinction in albumitems and dataitems when they are retrieved and they can be mixed. My theme doesn't do that and seperately retrieves ALL albums, and then starts getting dataItems which can be split over different pages (but every page ALLWAYS shows EVERY albumItem. To achieve this I need to use the functions fetchChildAlbumItemIds and fetchChildDataItemIds which the standard themes do not use. Even worse, I completely redo the dataretrieval fase because the other themes actually do not even handle this part.

Now, if would like to add linkItems I would have to have a function that can retrieve albumitem ids but also includes linkItems if they refer to a G2 albumItem. If I cannot do this I can never maintain the correct sort order because I would have to get the albums first, then the linkItems which point to albums putting all linkItems in the last position where they might actually be sorted up higher...

I take it that linkItems that point to dataItems are actually dataItems that are of the type link and I will get them as normal using fetchChildDataItemIds??? At least that is what I got out of mindless' last reply...

Anybody any idea's on this?
Can fetchChildAlbumItemIds already get the linkItems? (perhaps if I set a marker telling it to do so?)
If not could this be added??
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Guess what I don't really understand is why? Why do you need to do all of this? Can't you just use the existing list of objects in the page and pick out which ones are albums (i.e. store the list in another array)? I'm going to try my own theme tonight, starting with classic, and use this approach. I suppose I'll probably see what you mean then.

yes, the framework has some limitations here. the same prevents a theme from displaying other sets of items such as search results/keyword matches.. so there will definitely be some theme refactors down the road.

Hrrrumph!
I'm trying to fix this (or write my own theme from scratch). Problem is that I cannot get a function to list not only the albums but the linked albums.... Here's the problematic code:

Is there a function that can be used instead of "fetchChildAlbumItemIds"? Or in conjunction with? If this can be done, the issue should be solved.

I used fetchChildItemIds, but I'm not sure how to test the items in the array (id's) to see if they are albums or link items. Getting tired, so I'll try again later.

The problem is, is that I do not know how to "request more info" after getting the links. From the code above, I have an array (including the link items) of IDs (numbers) which doesn't do me any good. How do I query the actual item based off of its ID?

For instance, I want to test this (you are already testing the fisrt half on an incomplete array list):
if ($child['canContainChildren'] || $child['entityType'] == 'GalleryLinkItem')

The real problem is that I am not that familiar on how Gallery works, but I'm learning fast. But how do I go from an array of $childAlbumIds to the individual $child objects? Is this making any sense?

Later,
Scott

Since my quest to write my own theme has gotten me cursing like a sailor, when do you expect a version for G2.1 to be available? Because your theme is awesome enough I could modify it just enough so that I'm happy ;)

Updating themes for 2.1 isn't too hard, but there are some changes.
http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:API_Changes_Since_The_Last_Release
Of all the API changes, you'll definitely need the error handling update (there's a script that you can run) and update the required version in the theme constructor; maybe check for relativeRequireOnce->requireOnce or if you use forJavascript=true in any g->url calls (now htmlEntities=false). Most likely that will do it.

Which thumbnails? the thumbnails for albums and items are treated separately. Thumbnailsize for albums cannot be changed. But the thumbnailsize per item can be set in the album properties (Edit album->Album->default thumbnail size)
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I'm afraid you are mixing up things. On the example page there are no thumbnails at all for albums.
The size I set is about 60 indeed.

I prepared a little change for you which I didn't test *at all*. So I cannot garantee it is going to work.
You can get it from here. Please try it and if it works I'll put it in the next version (then the link above will become dead).

I am expecting some problems. For example line 396 from theme.css. It might give you some trouble, if it does please let me know here (but you may change it in 202). Another problem might be that I misspelled something and then the whole thing will simly not work at all...

In any case, can you please tell me how everything goes?
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Hi,

I just installed your template, and ran the script to make it work with v2.1, but I get this error when I click on the first site of an album.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/costil/public_html/members/themes/tien/theme.inc on line 265

Do you have any idea how I can fix that ?

This is the code from line 265:

foreach ($theme['children'] as $child) {
$childId = $child['id'];
if (isset($tree[$childId])) {
$treeList[$childId] = array();
$this->_parseTree($tree[$childId], $treeList[$childId], $treeIds);
}

Thanks,
Bpn