Steven:

Thanks very much -- this is very helpful.

I'll probably stick with the approach of writing a script to read the .BridgeSort file and use the image order there to reorder the image lists in the config.xml file and the <noscript> section of index.html.  That will allow me to keep the resizing option and to use custom sorts and preserve them if I redo a gallery.

Just out of curiosity, does the sort.php approach slow things up noticeable for big galleries of (say, 100+) images? 

-Patrick

Bill and Steven:

Thanks for the replies.  Bill, those are good suggestions.  Lightroom and other software will also rename files, and I do that, but I don't use a convention that would allow me to sort by file creation date.  The approach I use has worked for me for years (in part because other software allows me to sort by file creation date), so I'll probably stick with my old file naming method.  But I appreciate the suggestion.

I'll probably just write a perl script or something to read my .BridgeSort file and use that to reorder the image listing in the config.xml file. 

Steven, the ability to sort by file creation (capture) date seems like an obvious feature to add.

-Patrick

After a bit of looking around, I came up with this short list (and some examples of font sizes):

            /* font for gallery title in small-screen mode (above thumbnails) */
            .jb-idx-title .jb-idx-ssm-title-wrapper {font-size: 18px !important;}  
            
            /* font for page numbers in small-screen mode (typically below thumbnails) */
            .jb-idx-thb-list-page-number {font-size: 13px !important;}  
            
            /* font for image title in caption */
            .jb-caption .jb-caption-title {font-size: 13px !important;}  
            
            /* font for caption text */
            .jb-caption p {font-size: 10px !important;}  
            
            /* font for image numbers in caption */
            .jb-cap-frame .jbac-number {font-size: 13px !important;}  

-Patrick

Steven:

Thanks.  I did finally manage to get what I was looking for.  Here’s the page:

http://www.imagetree.org/family_friends/family/test9/

The three primary things I did to get the result I was looking for were:

1. Include this line in the juicebox call:

galleryHeight: '93%',

My guess is that this clunky “solution” may be of limited usefulness for others.  However, because I display the same banner on most of my pages, it seems to work for me.

2. Drop the code that is supposed to dynamically reset the page size, that is

function doLayout()
        var winHeight, headerHeight, footerHeight;
        winHeight = window.innerHeight ? window.innerHeight : $(window).height();
etc., etc.

It never worked for me.

3. Turn off the splash page (set “showSplashPage” to “NEVER”).  The splash page was coming up automatically when I reset the gallery height.  (I’m not a fan of the splash page.)

In response to your message, I should clarify that I strongly prefer the "SMALL" screenMode, so this suggestion was not an option for me:

Thanks again for your help,
Patrick

Hi Steven:
Thanks again for the follow-up.  Again, I tried what you suggested.  I put the code that loads the juicebox.js script

    <script src="jbcore/juicebox.js"></script>

at the top of the page.  But I found that this code needs to come after the script that creates the function "doLayout"--otherwise, the page does not load properly. 

Some good news and bad:

Good news:  This code does seem to resize the JB section of the pages properly.

Bad news:  My banner and the captions seem to load intermittently, depending on the browser used:
- IE11 only shows the banner on the thumbs pages.  On the full-size image pages, the banner is missing, but the captions are displayed.
- Safari 7.0.1 at first fails to load the banner, but it does load the photo captions.  However, if I navigate to the thumbs and then back to the full-size images, Safari displays the banner but does not show the captions.
- Firefox 27.0.1 always shows the banner, but it only displays captions for a few images.  For most of the photos, the captions are missing, and I cannot figure out what the pattern is (when captions appear and when they don't).

I tried many permutations, and I'd be happy to create new versions if you'd like to see what different tweaks produce. 

Again, I'd be grateful for any suggestions!

Thanks again,
Patrick