[Theme] Tien for Gallery2

maybe add some screenshots when not offering a demo, this would definitely attract more users

Thanks nivekiam. The looks are actually the last thing I've done. It took some more work to separate albums from items back into the form that other gallery systems use, but it is possible with G2 as well

There are some issues with the css, but that's why I versioned it 0.1. But I didn't want to wait to show what I did so far...

Nice job RwD! What caught my eye (besides the Zebra wabbit) is you show the image filesize in bytes. That I like.

yep, i think that would make a lot of people happy
kudos for your dedication

I LOVE this theme, but for one thing... How do I add a thumbnail instead of the folder icon for each album on the main page???

I was studying the Translator class when I suddenly noticed the textdomains being (component) type_name. So checking this with the .mo files I suddenly saw that the translations which I did put into the zip file could not be used because they belonged to another textdomain (eg, there name was theme_donortheme.mo where they should have been theme_tien.mo. So I fixed that, and resubmitted (and replaced) the old zip files. Except for some strings everything should now be translated. I downloaded poedit, so chances are I'll translate the 5 or 6 words to Dutch, German and perhaps French and Swedish (and unlikely but possibly to Greek, Romanian, Finnish and Chinese).

Anyway, in short, the theme Tien is now comming with correct .mo files.

Actually most style and layout parts are in the css, so you need to find and change colors in there... So for changing the color of the header change this part in theme.css:

#mainHeader {
	height			: 90px;
	background		: url(images/tienLogo_bg.gif) #f55f00;
	overflow		: hidden;
}

For your site #f55f00 should be changed into #6c14c3 (or if you don't want a temporary color while the image loads use #fff

I tried my code myself now, and you must have done something wrong; I did not have to get rid of an extra {/if}. Perhaps you should redo the change??

Also, if you decide to redo the change you shouldn't put in the <br> again. Instead add

#gsAlbumMatrix .giThumbnail {
    display: block;
}

Which will put the title on the next line as well. (If you do want to put in the <br> then use <br /> instead because that is a valid empty XML element where <br> is not...)

Ow, while I was at it, I took the moment to update the theme slightly, minor change...
(the zip files in the start post are updated)

Ps, nice to see you like the theme
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 <img src="{g->theme url="images/tienFolder.gif"}" height="13" alt=""/>*number of photos goes here*
<!-- --><a href="{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}">
{$child.title|default:$child.pathComponent|markup}</a>

I'd like to add the number of photos within a folder next to the folder thumbnail, since members never know if a folder contains images or not.
I'm guessing there is a some kind of variable which returns the number of photos within a child folder, but I don't know what it is. If I could insert it within this line (where it says number of photos go here) it would be really nice.

How could I do this?

check modules/core/classes/GalleryTheme.class, loadCommonTemplateData. The phpdoc there lists data you can load with keys to that function call in showAlbumPage of your theme. Look at matrix to see how it gets child count and desendent count for subalbums.

Large file, yes.. but I was only directing you to the phpdoc above function loadCommonTemplateData where it lists all the data items you can request. Look at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gallery/gallery2/themes/matrix/theme.inc?view=markup function showAlbumPage to see how those keys are passed in. Now add 'childCount' and/or 'descendentCount' in the array of keys used in your theme, then turn on buffered debug output in config.php and load an album page.. in the popup smarty console you can see what new data is now available to use in your tpls.

Other suggestion:

I was looking at the Matrix theme album.tpl file to see how they had shown date/owner/size etc under the folder name. The code used is as follows:

{g->block type="core.ItemInfo" item=$theme.item showSize=true class="giInfo"}

I really don't know template coding language at all, but i see it's somewhat similar to html. This calls some kind of block (probably the gray one that shows the info) and then displays it all. I inserted this line into the tien album.tpl but it isn't doing much. I tried changing it to text format but it returns errors. Again, I really don't know how this works so obviously I am making mistakes. This looks like the simplest way of displaying the number if items in a folder.

atomix,
I had a few seconds today to look at it. I was not behind my own pc so I couldn't make new code (that would work). But I did notice something on line 46 of "album.tpl". The {if} part that is there is the part I intended to show the nr of items inside. It might only need little adjustments. I have no clue if it is easy to make it work or not; it has been a while since I made this. But at the moment I have no time to figure out how to do it. Perhaps in December...
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Love the theme, just had a question that I may just be overlooking?
You show a SS at the top with albums+items view, how do I get the split view like that?

Thanks in advance,
Dave

EDIT: disregard this, I see now that they are all subfolders within the main one.

Screenshot. :p

I am very new to G2 so I hope that you will be patient! I love this theme and in particular the after dark colour. However I have installed it and am finding that although the colours have changed to darker orange in the header the background is still white and I do not have the random image on the left. Can some please explain to me where I should be placing the various folders and if in fact I should be seeing the random image window on the left.
Thanks for your patience.....was running 1.4 so this seems like the difference between windows 3.0 and XP!

Regards

Phil

Hi RwD, I am using your theme if that is ok, and I have made some modifications to it but would like to add a couple of things I hope you can help me with. My site is here - http://www.waclan.co.uk/wfb/gallery .I would like the Header images to be linked to a url (in this case my site homepage) I gather I need to add something to this section of code:

But I am not too good with css.

Also, I would like the background colour to not be white but a different colour, while keeping the inside of the gallery white - i have tried to change this:

But it does the whole page, inside and out. Any ideas? Great theme by thw way

Thanks,
Adam

did you set tien as your default theme in site admin / themes? if you just did edit album / album tab to assign tien to 2 albums then i'd only expect those 2 albums to use it.. every album can have a different theme..

Well, you cannot add hyperlinks with css, you need to do that in the templates. In one of the templates there should be tienLogo.jpg or tienLogo.gif somewhere. Around that image markup you should add the link like: <a href="mysite.com"><img ...></a>.
That should fix the first point.

Second thing I cannot help you with exactly right now because I do not have the time or the theme itself nearby. But when you do not set a backgroundcolor then an object will be transparant (entire page will of course have a backgroundcolor, but everything in it is transparant unless told otherwise).
So when you set the backgroundcolor you must make sure that the site container element does get the color white.
My guess (since I haven't seen the code in a while) is that you should add: background-color: #fff; to #mainContainer. After that you can change the background color in the way you suggested...

I love, love, love this theme!
I've been making wee alternations with transparent icons and things and want to use the dark pack.
The one thing that I've been trying to get is album thumbnails. Not big ones just wee ones. I tried and tried with the dark pack and couldn't get it to work. I finally got somewhere when I took off the pack but it still has problems.
screenshot : http://ladymix.com/mix/screenshot_gallery.jpg
It has the little question marks and I can't change the size of the thumbnails any longer.

Thanks for any help I could get from anyone. Once again AWESOME theme!

It is Safari 2.02 and I obviously use a mac. Comes up the same way on Firefox. Thanks for the suggestion, one of these days when I have the time I'll go in and work with the css if no further suggestions are presented.

Still have the question marks though :P For now I'll use the folders until either I or someone else can figure something out ;) Thanks!

thumbnails are small anyway.. seems ok to send a thumbnail image and tell the browser to make it even smaller. PGtheme does this, as does micro-thumbs in matrix theme.

Thanks RwD
I love this theme and had tried unsuccessfully to load it but with your suggestion it works.
I have also found the answers to some of my questions in the thread.

I do have a suggestion though:-
It would be nice if you added in the footer -
"Theme created by <you>" and facility or instructions for us to add "adapted by <me>"

In fact I would like to see that in all themes. It would nicely get round the feeling that we should be giving credit where it is due.

I am planning to make a cream/lt brown version of the theme. I have yet to look at the css etc. Now I feel armed to do so.. just where is the time <ggg>

Blessings,
Gaynor

I have made some versions on the Tien theme
You can see them at http://travelpicsmcc.com/gallery2.0.2/
Login with user = gallery and password = forum

Obviously my G2.0.2 site is not yet public and I have a lot of work to do on it.

The first page is theme Matrix with my own colorpack “ltgold” (which has not come out the right colour because the computer I made it on has odd display colours)

Select Overseas Travel / USA / San Francisco / Colour Fun

USA has my adapted theme ‘PlusWebgold’
San Francisco has my adapted theme ‘PlusWebgold2’,
And Colour Fun has my adapted theme ‘PluswebGreen’

I think the adaptation I am doing is more than just colorpacks as I am heading towards making pipes instead of flat slats for the bars. The images for the bars looked like pipes, but somehow they changed in the theme, possibly because of the border.

We have some clients very happy with themes based on Jade’s pipe bars.
I am hoping to be able to translate these into G2.

I like the way Classic has the captions below the thumbnails, but don’t like the owner being stated beside every image.
I like Matrix, but for the caption being to the side
And so far I have not been able to work out how to add images to the heading and bars

Tien suits me very well, but so far I have not been successful in getting the thumbnails to show up.

Blessings,
Gaynor

Well, the colorpack is basically just an extra css on top of the existing one overruling previous settings. If you add images or change them then that is okl inside a colorpack I think; no need to call it a new theme like many would do...

You can set the border to 0 by adding border-bottom: 0 !important; to the colorpack css for those headers. (The !important makes sure you overwrite the previous setting, but may not be needed)

I don't really see the pipe in there... it is just some sort of flat rainbow to me. You also have a horizontal color shift which looks weird every time the bg image is repeated??

Thumbnails in images has been requested now many times where I actually specifically took them out because I don't like them. In a month or so I might have time to put them in as an option. You can do it yourself as well, but if you dnon't want to do more then needed then it requires to change the theme. Just use the image code used for images in the place where the folder image is used..
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