so what advantages are there, that using the juice box lite App gives me over using Jalbum ?.

They are simply different ways of creating a Juicebox gallery. There are also plugins available for other programs such as Lightroom, Picasa and Photoshop. Use whichever method you are most comfortable with. Some people already use programs such as Lightroom so having a plugin for Lightroom fits in well with their current workflow.
For those not currently familiar with Lightroom, Photoshop, etc. a plugin is of little use which is why we provide JuiceboxBuilder-Lite (a standalone application dedicated to creating and editing Juicebox-Lite galleries) with the Juicebox-Lite download.
The jAlbum skin has the ability to create multi-gallery albums in a single action (by dragging and dropping an entire folder structure into jAlbum's main window). A Juicebox gallery will be created for each folder/subfolder in your input structure and all the galleries will be linked together by the JavaScript navigation tree. You can also upload the resulting album directly to your web space via jAlbum's built-in FTP functionality.

If you were to purchase Juicebox-Pro, you would gain access to the many Pro Configuration Options which are not available to Juicebox-Lite users and the 50-image per gallery limit would be lifted. Other benefits of Juicebox-Pro over Juicebox-Lite can be found on this page.
You could integrate Juicebox-Pro into the jAlbum skin by following the instructions on this page. Pro Options should be entered into the skin's interface as lines of text, such as:

option1=value1
option2=value2

As a Juicebox-Pro customer, you will also have JuiceboxBuilder-Pro which allows you to create a Juicebox-Pro gallery with all available Pro Options configurable via the interface (without the need to type or copy/paste text). The live preview window also shows you exactly how your gallery looks as you make changes.

The .air file extension signifies that the file should be handled by the Adobe AIR installer.
JuiceboxBuilder requires Adobe AIR v2.0 or later. The latest version of Adobe AIR (v3.3) can be downloaded from this page.
It is safe to install both Adobe AIR and JuiceboxBuilder on your Mac.
Please see the JuiceboxBuilder User Guide for details.

5,703

(7 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

i imagine i need that to upgrade my albums to v2?

It would become a two-step process but you could use svBuilder-Pro to first convert your SimpleViewer v1.9 galleries to SimpleViewer v2, then you could use JuiceboxBuilder-Pro to convert your SimpleViewer v2 galleries to Juicebox.

any chance the wonderful grid home page of sv will ever make it to juicebox?

I do not know about the possibility of having a grid of thumbnails but further thumbnail positioning options are currently being considered.

5,704

(8 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

There is I believe a small bug that is if you enter html code (e.g. <br>) in the title field in Lightroom the plugin hangs.  This also applies if it is in the presets XML options.

Thank you for reporting. I will log a bug report and hopefully this can be fixed in a future version.

If you just change a configuration option, then the only file you need to re-upload is the gallery's 'config.xml' file.
(You may need to clear your browser's cache after making such a change before reloading the gallery.)

There are certain options (Background Color, Gallery Width, Gallery Height) that are set in the gallery's embedding code rather than in the XML file.
If you change any of these, then you will also need to upload the gallery's 'index.html' file.

5,706

(2 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Does JuiceBox solution scale to this level (I see you support unlimited images) and how do you recommend architecting it?

One of the issues of having such a large gallery would be to ensure that not all images are preloaded by the browser at once.
Juicebox caters for this with the imagePreloading option which can be set to preload all images in the current thumbnail page, the next image in the gallery only, all images in the gallery or no images at all.

Is it possible to build something similar to the Flickr connection except to our own API?

Rather than manually create an XML file listing all images to be displayed, it is possible to use PHP to include all images in a specific directory.
You could use the following embedding code:

<!--START JUICEBOX EMBED-->
<script src="jbcore/js/juicebox.js"></script>
<script>
new juicebox({
containerId : "juicebox-container",
configUrl : "config.php"
});
</script>
<div id="juicebox-container"></div>
<!--END JUICEBOX EMBED-->

... and use the following code in a file named 'config.php' instead of a traditional static XML file.

<?php
header("Content-Type: application/xhtml xml; charset=UTF-8");
function GetDirArray($folder)
{
    $handle=opendir($folder);
    while ($file=readdir($handle))
    {
        if ($file!="." && $file!="..")
        {
            $ret[count($ret)]=$file;
        }
    }
    closedir($handle);
    sort($ret);
    return $ret;
}
$gallery=GetDirArray('images');
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
echo '<juiceboxgallery title="Juicebox Gallery">';
for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($gallery); $i++)
{
    echo '<image imageURL="images/'.$gallery[$i].'" thumbURL="images/'.$gallery[$i].'" linkURL="" linkTarget="">';
    echo '<title></title>';
    echo '<caption></caption>';
    echo '</image>';
}
echo '</juiceboxgallery>';
?>

In the above example, all images in a directory named 'images' would be included in the gallery.
You may be able to incorporate Amazon S3 API calls into the code above to fetch your images from Amazon's servers.

Do you have an example of a JuiceBox install with thousands of images?

There are no online examples of such large galleries but it should be very easy to create one yourself using JuiceboxBuilder-Pro. Just drag and drop all your images into the JuiceboxBuilder-Pro interface and save the gallery on the 'Publish' tab.
I have personally created a gallery with over 1000 images in the past and there was no discernible difference between the loading time of this gallery over the loading time of a gallery containing only a few images.

5,707

(1 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

When first creating a gallery with JuiceboxBuilder-Pro, the relative path to your 'logo.png' image is meaningless as the gallery folder does not yet exist. The path should be relative to the HTML file into which the gallery is embedded but the file has not yet been created.
If you save your gallery (on the 'Publish' tab) and then re-open the gallery in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro, you should see your image in place of the blue question mark.

This is not actually a bug. The SLIDE transition will always be used in Touch Input Mode (as the Swipe gesture lends itself to the SLIDE transition) and Touch Input Mode will always be used on small touch-screen devices.
As the description for imageTransitionType says on the 'Juicebox - Config Options' page:

Only applies for Large Screen Mode and Mouse Input Mode.

Apologies for suggesting that it might have been a bug.

5,709

(7 replies, posted in Juicebox-Lite Support)

You need to upload your gallery folder to a web server in order for the gallery to be publicly accessible to other users (who do not have access to your desktop).
If you do not have web space with a regular web host, you can use Dropbox as a host.

To upload your gallery folder to Dropbox:
(1) Download and install the Dropbox client program (from the link above)
(2) Run the install program and sign up for a free Dropbox account
(3) Create your SimpleViewer gallery with the method of your choice
(4) Drag and drop the entire gallery folder into the 'Public' folder within the newly created Dropbox folder on your computer
(5) Navigate towards your gallery's 'index.html' file (within 'username/Dropbox/Public/gallery_folder/'), right-click it and select 'Dropbox -> Copy public link'

To embed your gallery in a blog entry, insert an <iframe> whose 'src' attribute points towards the 'index.html' page within your gallery folder (the URL you copied in Step #5 above if using Dropbox), e.g.:

<iframe src="URL_to_gallery_index_page" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

When entering the <iframe> code in your blog, make sure that the method of entry is 'HTML' rather than 'plain text', otherwise, users will see the <iframe> code rather than your gallery.

It looks like you have found a bug. Thank you for reporting.
I have logged a bug report.

5,711

(3 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

I am glad you have found a suitable workaround for your problem.
Thank you for posting back to let me know.

Is there any way to convert simpleviewer galleries to juicebox?

Yes. Please see the Converting a SimpleViewer Gallery section for details.
You may also find this post useful for converting a large number of galleries.

Would it be a case of replacing 'svcore' with 'jbcore' in each of the galleries?

As you have discovered, there is more to it than that. The gallery's embedding code (in the HTML file) needs to be converted and the settings (in the XML file) need to be translated.

5,713

(7 replies, posted in Juicebox-Lite Support)

Have you also uploaded your gallery folder to a suitable host?
Please take a look at the FAQs to see if any describe your scenario (such as the first one) and offer a suggestion which might help.
If you continue to experience difficulties, please post the URL to your gallery so that I can take a look.

5,714

(9 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Please advise does the Juicebox PRO software  support audio in all browsers or not?

Yes.
Your problem seems to be due to the way that your web host serves the .ogg file to the user's Firefox browser.

If you go directly to this sample .ogg file in Firefox, the music starts playing.
However, if you go directly to your .ogg file on your web server, Firefox does not play the file but instead offers to download it.

I notice in Virgin Media's Support Pages that the .ogg MIME type is not configured by default.
Try adding the .ogg MIME type in an .htaccess file as described on this page.

5,715

(6 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

The demos on this page show what can be done with Juicebox but the themes are not downloadable.
A Theme Gallery is planned but not yet available. Please see the Juicebox - Theming page for more details.

5,716

(2 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

This is a known bug (imageClickMode="OPEN_URL" does not work on mobile devices).
A bug report had already been logged and hopefully it will be fixed in the near future.
Thank you for reporting.

5,717

(7 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

I do see config XML file in "wp-content/uploads/juicebox/"

Yes, but the full path to your gallery's XML file is: http://media.kutovadesign.com/wp-conten … ebox/5.xml which is a different domain to URL you quoted for the page into which the gallery is embedded.
(Did you change the path to the uploads folder in the WordPress Dashboard 'Settings -> Media' section?)
If you visit: http://media.kutovadesign.com/juicebox/ you will see your gallery (as the page's domain matches that of the XML file).

That's great! Thanks for posting back.

5,719

(9 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

There is a typo in your audioUrlOgg entry.
Currently, you have audioUrlOgg="04.0gg" (note the zero character in the file extension).
This should be audioUrlOgg="04.ogg".

5,720

(7 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Although not sure how to check "PHP DOM extension enabled"

Create a new file named 'phpinfo.php' containing the following code:

<?php
    phpinfo();
?>

Upload it to your web server, open the page in a browser and search for the DOM section.
However, this is not the problem.

Your website URL is http://www.kutovadesign.com/juicebox/
However, your XML file is stored on: http://media.kutovadesign.com/
All Juicebox files should be stored on the same domain (or subdomain).

The latest version of svManager (v1.8.0) now includes support for Juicebox galleries.
You can download the latest version using the link from your original purchase email.
If you cannot find the email or your link has expired, please fill in this Upgrade Request Form to request a new link.
You can upgrade svManager from Juicebox-Lite (which it comes bundled with) to Juicebox-Pro by following Step #6 from the instructions here.

5,722

(3 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Ensure that your galley's background is transparent by setting the background opacity (the last parameter in the 'rgba' notation) to zero, e.g.:

backgroundColor : 'rgba(0,0,0,0)'

Also, try giving your header <div> a high 'z-index' value so that it appears on top of all Juicebox gallery elements, e.g.:

<div id="header" style="z-index: 9999;">

Your gallery's XML file uses the setting useFlickr="false" but there are no images listed in the XML file for the gallery to display.
Make sure that your images are present in your WordPress Media Library and that they are attached to the post containing the gallery. After checking this, 'Edit' and 'Update' the post to rewrite the gallery's XML file and include the images in your gallery.

5,724

(15 replies, posted in Juicebox-Lite Support)

@UrsusMaritimus

Thank you for sharing! Hopefully others will be able to benefit from it.

5,725

(1 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Do you have Small Screen Mode and Large Screen Mode sample galleries that I can compare side by side?
Also, on what platform and in what browsers do you see the differences?
I have created SSM and LSM galleries using my own images and have viewed both galleries side by side in Firefox 12, IE9 and Safari 5.1.7 (Windows PC) and cannot see a difference between the two.