In 2016 this doesn't even count as a 'feature' .... why can't we update to new versions from within the app?

Every piece of software I own, from the simplest freeware to the highest end professional applications allows this. Juicebox feels like a throwback to the late '80s in this regard.

Enough time goes by between updates that I can't even remember the byzantine procedures necessary to update. I have to look through ancient emails and find my original link, and it still doesn't work.

You guys really, really have to fix this.

Also, why is "about Juicebox" under the "help" menu? Are you just porting from the Windows version, with minimal actual attention to the Mac version? If this is the case I'm going to have to go shopping for a new web solution, because that diminishes my trust in the seriousness of the company.

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I looked at the gallery xml file, and sure enough, some of the link URLs are set to the image address, and some to the main site URL.  But I don't know why this would be ... this file was automatically generated by Juicebox builder.

How can I make sure that it gets generated properly every time?

I looked at my preset for this gallery, and there is no line for linkURL.

Please modernize the update process!

Almost every other piece of software I own checks for updates, alerts me, and then offers a one-click option to download the update. The install process rarely requires more than typing in admin credentials and clicking OK.

Juicebox seems more inclined to send us on some kind of vision quest— in search of new updates, and then in search of the How to Update instructions on the site, and then into the bowels of our own email records to try to find the original email receipt ...
All this just to send a web form requesting a download link. This followed by a few days wait, a manual download, and a manual uninstall and reinstall...

Honestly, it's the most Byzantine update process I've encountered in the last ten years.

Please spare us.

I tried this but the file ends at line 635.

I did upgrade to 1.2, but replaced the jbcore folder in order to keep my old edits. I thought that's what I was told to do but perhaps it was a mistake?

Everything else works fine.

That worked, thank you.

After playing with some other web galleries, I've found one feature that I think would be very useful: a thumbnail grid view. With a large gallery, this gives people the option of scanning everything at once, and picking one or two images to look at. This is especially nice for a returning visitor who is looking for a specific image, and doesn't want to have to go through all the images or thumbnails sequentially.

It could be implemented as a third option attached to the thumbnail view button. That button could become a pull-down that lets you chose between image-only, image+thumbs, or thumbnail grid.

Another thought ... I intuitively try to move through the thumbnails by scrolling (I use an Apple magic mouse, but this is the kind of thing anyone with a trackpad or scroll ball is used to doing). It would be cool if that worked.

Also, concerning the hot-linkability of the images, there may be an SEO benefit to this as well. I noticed that google image search was able to catalog the images from my old HTML web galleries, but it doesn't seem to be able to do so from my Juicebox galleries.