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(495 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Speaking of small screens...

I was just on the Juicebox home page and noticed this:
https://scrot.cloud/images/2021/01/31/responsive.th.png

Do I have my galleries setup incorrectly? No control buttons for me.

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Thanks for the link. I tracked down all the libs required and I'll set up a test system on a blank HD to try it out.

https://scrot.cloud/images/2020/07/25/test_setup_1200.th.jpg * https://scrot.cloud/images/2020/07/25/test_setup1_1200.th.jpg

I guess we're getting a little off topic. ;)

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^ Thanks for doing all that. :)

I've tried it before and it fails with a missing dependency which isn't in any Debian repository. :(

Thanks again. Support second to none.

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Weird. I booted into Linux and then back into Windows (which I keep only for JuiceBox) and problem - gone. Shame Adobe discontinued  Air for Linux.

Firefox - Edge - Chromium

https://scrot.cloud/images/2021/01/27/3Browser.th.png
Right click image. Select "Open in new tab."

And if one resizes Firefox narrower than 1000px, the thumbs disappear.
Edge is now a rebranded Chromium anyway...

Just thought I'd share.

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(495 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Better small screen rendering. On my Android, even with 720x1560 pixels, 6.40-inch screen, there is no scrolling for overflow images; or two finger resizing or captions. YMMV.

Still one of the best out there.

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Steven @ Juicebox wrote:

I think you might have just answered your own question by posting the link to Harman's AIR runtimes (which, by the look of things, were released just a few hours ago).

Funny how that happened. ;) ;)

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Thanks Steven, that did the trick.
I wonder why search didn't turn up that thread...

Any news on Harmon updating Air?

Adobe AIR - Runtimes for end user download
https://airsdk.harman.com/runtime

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Subject says it all.
Two different computers.
Three different operating systems.
Four different browsers, I can't view the files. Juicebox can open them for editing/saving.
Searched the forum, found a thread, but it didn't seem to apply to my case.

Any help?

P.S. I've been looking at a bunch of slideshow/lightbox programs, even major ones my host provides and Juicebox is the best looking.

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(2 replies, posted in Tricks and Tips)

Part Two


Let's look up:

showOpenButton

in  https://www.juicebox.net/support/config_options/.

With your browser at the config options page, enter control-F, for Find. Search for 'showOpenButton'.
This is how to find the settings from your config.xml and check for the default value.

The default value/action for  'showOpenButton' is "true". This is what will happen if it's not listed in config.xml. The defaults don't need to be declared and can be purged from config.xml.

Also, the order of declarations in config.xml is not Important. I've rearranged one of mine, by grouping related items together, and then copy/pasting it to every gallery in that section, making the changes universal.

As a general rule, I would suggest opening the modified gallery with JbB and re-publishing. Use that config.xml as the template for cloning your galleries.


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P.S. Remember, whatever happens to your galleries, you did it.  :-)
P.P.S. Information is offered is the best of my understanding.

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(2 replies, posted in Tricks and Tips)

If you have a gallery that you've played with for a while, changing settings back and forth, this might interest you.

Start JuiceboxBuilder (JbB) - New Gallery. Then import a few images, and make no further changes. Go directly to Publish, and do so.

It's interesting to see what JbB creates on it's own. Here's the settings section of config.xml:

    imageQuality="99"
    thumbQuality="99"
    useLargeImages="true"
    largeImageQuality="99"
    useSmallImages="true"
    smallImageQuality="99"

None of which are in the Config Guide.¹  https://www.juicebox.net/support/config_options/
The interesting ones (for now) shown below, the rest of the options set maximum image quality.

    useLargeImages="true"
    useSmallImages="true"

This creates three sets of images for the gallery, Small, reg, large. Small screen mode for phones and smaller tablets. And images 1024x768 pixels or bigger for larger screen devices.

Now lets change something in JbB and see what happens to config.xml.

Side Note: config.xml and index.html are really a pair of files to be considered together. JbB changes both files depending on settings selected.

In JbB,  lets change the 'show open button' setting in the Lite Section. Then re-read config.xml:

    imageQuality="99"
    thumbQuality="99"
    useLargeImages="true"
    largeImageQuality="99"
    useSmallImages="true"
    smallImageQuality="99"
    showOpenButton="false"

The new settings are added to the bottom on config.xml.
Now we're getting to the point of this post.
Let's reset 'show open button' back to the original setting, using JbB. And re-read config.xml:

    imageQuality="99"
    thumbQuality="99"
    useLargeImages="true"
    largeImageQuality="99"
    useSmallImages="true"
    smallImageQuality="99"
    showOpenButton="true"

Now, there will always be a setting for 'show open button' in your config.xml.
If you've enjoyed playing with the many options in JuiceboxBuilder, you config.xml could be quite large. I don't know what performance that might make on slower, low powered devices. It just makes sense the leaner config.xml is the better.

And if you're like me and it doesn't take much of a reason to go mucking about with things, here we go.

Continued in Part Two.

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¹ as worded in config.xml. The are options to include or not, the small and large images in JbB.

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(1 replies, posted in Tricks and Tips)

Juicebox Lite and Juicebox Pro are so easy to use, it belies how powerful they are.
If you haven't see these already, here is some suggested reading to help new users get started.

A good overview of Juicebox; Gallery Tour:

https://www.juicebox.net/tour/gallery/


JuiceboxBuilder Tour:

https://www.juicebox.net/tour/juiceboxbuilder/


See Juicebox in Action; Options to help decide the look and feel of your next gallery.

https://www.juicebox.net/demos/


Maybe you have a question that's been asked before?

https://www.juicebox.net/support/faq/


Juicebox Configuration Options.

https://www.juicebox.net/support/config_options/


And lastly, Juicebox support home:

https://www.juicebox.net/support/

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Steven @ Juicebox wrote:

I've also created a new forum for your 'Tricks and Tips' thread here.

I knew we were in good hands.

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Whoo Woo!! My work here is done! No, seriously...
Thanks, it's a big help.
There are so many great options, it takes a while to master them.
The Config Options page is a big help.

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Please remember to make the same edits in your local copy or the two copies will fork.  :(

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Let just say you've uploaded your new gallery and while admiring it you discover a minor typo or punctuation error.

Fire up JuiceBox, make the edit. Publish. Upload to server,. Or,
If your host allows editing a document on the server, (I guess most do) you can directly edit:

config.xml
index.html

of the gallery in question.

The upper part of config.xml looks like:

showAudioButton="false"
    showInfoButton="false"
    showNavButtons="false"
    showAutoPlayButton="false"
    backButtonPosition="OVERLAY"
    backButtonUseIcon="true"
    galleryTitlePosition="TOP"
    maxThumbColumns="8"
    enableDirectLinks="false"
    useFullscreenExpand="true"

Those are gallery settings and is beyond this post to explain. But at the bottom of config.xml:

 <image imageURL="images/wborg2.jpg"
    thumbURL="thumbs/wborg2.jpg"
    linkURL="images/wborg2.jpg"
    linkTarget="_blank"
    sourcePath="C:\Users\mypc\Desktop\PC Done\wborg\wborg2.jpg">
    <title><![CDATA[]]></title>
    <caption><![CDATA[This is an example of a text errerrerr. .]]></caption>
  </image>

<caption><![CDATA[ is the text that needs correcting. The word error is misspelled.
index.html needs the same correction. 

- config.xml is instructions for the galleries (including gallery captions)
- index.html is instructions for the web browser if it can't do javascript. To display the captions text with the image.

This way you can fast simple edits.

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Edit: Please remember whatever you do to your galleries, you are solely responsible.

Steven @ Juicebox wrote:

You could even do this for many images at once as a batch process via 'File -> Batch Conversion/Rename... -> Use advanced options (checkbox) -> Advanced (button) -> Canvas size (checkbox) -> Settings (button)'.

Nice. Thanks.

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Here's a way to control the width of the container that displays the caption.
Caption - Max Caption Height will set how tall the container is;
But I've found no formal way to set the width; when the caption is set to display below the picture/stage.

If one has a narrow picture that has a long caption, it can be unattractive, as well as hard to read; IMHO.

I made an image just larger than the largest image in my gallery, and filled it with the color of the background used in the gallery. That's the new background image.

Copy/Pasted my narrow image on top of the new background image and centered it at the top of that new background image. Save image. The size in width of the image will control the width of the caption container.

One could use a set width for the new background image for use throughout a gallery keeping them all the same, or adjust the width of each picture to change the width if the caption container to fit the text associated with that image.

I found that making the narrow image even just a little wider, I can cut down on the number of rows of caption text by at least half.

https://scrot.cloud/images/2020/01/05/e … e_nice.png

Add your tips in the new Tricks and Tips section.
Not only do you get to show the world how clever you are but also how generous. :)

Agreed with all you said about large galleries. The mitigating factor in this case is, it's kind of a story. Shortly, the reader has a vested interest to finish it and see what happens. The more they read, the more they would be giving up if they quit. :)

Collecting ideas for the requests thread,
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Hi Steven,
Title says it all. Got any tricks and tips for larger galleries?

TIA
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Steven @ Juicebox wrote:

There are 20 configuration options available in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro's 'Customize -> Main Image' section and all 20 are listed in the Main Image section of the Config Options page.
If you find that any configuration options are missing from the Config Options page, then please let me know what they are so that I can add them to the page. Thank you.

I stand corrected. 20 for 20. Just in a different order than in the application. That's what threw me off. The point being I _am_ trying not to be lazy.  :)

Thanks,
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Hi Steven,

When thumbnails out number 'Max Thumb Columns', is there a setting to advance the thumbnails one by one instead of set by set?

I really have been reading the documentation, trying to find info for my self. Like there are more options under 'Main Image' than are explained on the Config Page  :-) (https://www.juicebox.net/support/config … ge-options)

JuiceBox is a great product, worth every penny.

Regards,
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Steven @ Juicebox wrote:

That is, however, the same message that the user who had to wind back his system clock a couple of years to install JuiceboxBuilder-Pro received so, if you have not yet tried this odd suggestion, then it might be worth trying.

Okay, that did the trick. Odd solution indeed. Never did find the 'wind' knob on the clock. :)

I hope these additional notes/suggestions help.

Juicebox support is as fabulous and the software. :)

Best Regards,
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Thanks Steven. Did all of the above carefully, step by step. I've probably used up my 5 download limit trying to solve this. This is from my Win10 machine. Same error as in Win7.

[2019-12-30:07:57:08] Application Installer begin with version 32.0.0.125 on Windows 10 x86
[2019-12-30:07:57:08] Commandline is: C:\Users\eight.bit.al\Desktop\JuiceboxBuilder-Pro.air
[2019-12-30:07:57:08] Installed runtime (32.0.0.125) located at c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe AIR
[2019-12-30:07:57:08] Unpackaging file:///C:/Users/eight.bit.al/Desktop/JuiceboxBuilder-Pro.air to C:\Users\eight.bit.al\AppData\Local\Temp\flaEDFE.tmp
[2019-12-30:07:57:09] Package signature validation failed
[2019-12-30:07:57:09] Got an unexpected fatal error while unpackaging: [ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="invalid package signature" errorID=5022]
[2019-12-30:07:57:16] Application Installer end with exit code 7

Thanks for your time.
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Steven @ Juicebox wrote:

<snip>I hope this helps.

Yes, a big help. Thanks for the quick reply.
Now if I can get it installed in Win7. Nothing but errors. Followed every link on the subject I could find.

Thanks again,
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