Shorten Names of Images When Looking at Thumbnails

LBSources

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Posted: Fri, 2008-08-29 14:50

Hi..

After looking at this old threadI'm wondering if this is now just supported in Gallery .. If so, where is the setting?

If it's not and still requires a hack to achieve, where do I get started?

Thanks in advanced.

LBS
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floridave
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Posted: Fri, 2008-08-29 20:46

That thread is for G1.. G2 is completely different so it can be fixed easy in G2. What theme are you using and are you wanting to shorten the title or the description. Some themes have both some don't.

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Posted: Fri, 2008-08-29 23:24

Hi Foridave .. Ah sorry on the version confusion.. I'm using the Matrix theme.. Do you know which themes support the "fix"? I want to either get rid of or shorten the actual name of the picture when viewing it in thumbnail view.

Thanks!
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Posted: Sat, 2008-08-30 04:42

Edit galery2/themes/matrix/templates/album.tpl
find

		{if !empty($child.title)}
		<p class="giTitle">
		  {if $child.canContainChildren && (!isset($theme.params.albumFrame)
		   || $theme.params.albumFrame == $theme.params.itemFrame)}
		    {* Add prefix for albums unless imageframe will differentiate *}
		    {g->text text="Album: %s" arg1=$child.title|markup}
		  {else}
		    {$child.title|markup}
		  {/if}
		</p>
		{/if}

And remove.
Or if you want to truncate it then you will have to use the truncate modifier.
http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/language.modifier.truncate.php
on $child.title|markup

Dave

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LBSources

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Posted: Sat, 2008-08-30 12:21

Hey Floridave the truncate worked, but it removes them from the albums also when looking at them as thumbnails (before actually entering a album). I actually just wanted to remove the names or truncate (now that I can) them from the images when looking at them in thumbnail mode.

Any chance or to much to ask for..
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Posted: Sat, 2008-08-30 14:53

I don't understand,
You want the titles of the thumbs to be truncated but not the title of the albums?

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LBSources

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Posted: Sat, 2008-08-30 17:41

so when you first hit any gallery page you see all the albums as thumbnails right? The names are under the highlight image. You click into an album and there you have all the pictures as thumbnails. I want to remove the image names from the image thumbnails, but not the album thumbnails. Is it possible?
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Posted: Sun, 2008-08-31 00:25

The bit of code I quoted will do that, just truncate the title after the {else} the first title is for the album(s)

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Posted: Mon, 2008-09-01 12:11

Ok.. Here is what I have, but the album names when in thumbnail view are also truncated which I dont want..

{if !empty($child.title)}
		<p class="giTitle">
		  {if $child.canContainChildren && (!isset($theme.params.albumFrame)
		   || $theme.params.albumFrame == $theme.params.itemFrame)}
		    {* Add prefix for albums unless imageframe will differentiate *}
		    {g->text text="Album: %s" arg1=$child.title|markup}
		  {else}
		    {$child.title|markup|truncate:20}
		  {/if}
		</p>
		{/if}
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floridave
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Posted: Tue, 2008-09-02 03:33

must be a cache issue.
URL?

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Posted: Tue, 2008-09-02 10:55

URL sent to you :)
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Posted: Tue, 2008-09-02 22:54

I did not know if you were using album frames or not. See how much URLs help! So this is the code then:
from 

		  {else}
		    {$child.title|markup|truncate:20}
		  {/if}
		</p>
		{/if}

to 

		  {else}
		    {if $child.canContainChildren}{$child.title|markup}{else}{$child.title|markup|truncate:20}{/if}
		  {/if}
		</p>
		{/if}

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LBSources

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Posted: Wed, 2008-09-03 09:48

Hmmm that seemed to create just a blank page :(
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Posted: Wed, 2008-09-03 14:14

Works for me, if you get a blank page then you probably missed a closing curly brace or some other typing error. Does your editor add stuff to the bottom or other such things?

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Posted: Wed, 2008-09-03 23:10

There we go .. You might have been right... I'm sorted out now.. Dave thank you very much!
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