101 Reply by paulr

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Re: Feature Requests

The Juicebox main image does have a drop shadow by default. To modify the drop-shadow CSS, check the themeing section here: http://juicebox.net/support/theming/ The main image drop shadow is defined by the ".jb-dt-main-frame .jb-dt-main-image" entry.

.jb-dt-main-frame .jb-dt-main-image {
    -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);
    box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);
    border-color: White;
}

Can you tell us which value(s) to change if we want to completely eliminate the drop shadow? Is drop shadow control going to be incorporated into the graphical interface?

Also, on the Juicebox site, the link showing how to get the software to use a custom theme doesn't seem to work. Can you point me to that information?

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
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Re: Feature Requests

@paulr

Can you tell us which value(s) to change if we want to completely eliminate the drop shadow?

Just remove the following lines from the code you posted:

    -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);
    box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);

Is drop shadow control going to be incorporated into the graphical interface?

Yes. We plan to incorporate drop shadow options (color, opacity and blur) for thumbnails and main images in a future release of Juicebox-Pro. These options will be available within the JuiceboxBuilder-Pro interface. However, I do not know when this will be.

Also, on the Juicebox site, the link showing how to get the software to use a custom theme doesn't seem to work.

I think the link you refer to is the 'themeUrl option' link on the Juicebox - Theming page which should point to the Embed Options section of the Juicebox - Config Options page. I have now fixed the link (see links above).

103 Reply by paulr

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Re: Feature Requests

Thank you Steve.

Another option it would be nice to have control over is the shading of the selected thumbnail. I find the current setting, the ghosted outer section, to be odd and a bit confusing.

It would also be nice if pixel dimensions (of thumbnails, at least) would be recorded in presets.

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The ability to set the 'Thumb Frame Width', the 'Thumb Hover Frame Width' and the 'Thumb Selected Frame Width' independently of each other within the JuiceboxBuilder-Pro interface is also on the roadmap and should hopefully be included in the next version of Juicebox-Pro.

105 Reply by paulr

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Re: Feature Requests

Steven wrote:

@paulr

It would also be nice if it were possible to download or copy the link of an image without opening up an expanded view window. I know virtually nothing about HTML5 ... is this locking of the image intrinsic or is it a feature that can be turned on or off?

This is due to the fact that the gallery is displayed dynamically using JavaScript and XML and the images are not simply displayed on the page using traditional <img> tags.
One way to achieve what you are looking to do would be to link directly to the images within your gallery's captions.
If creating or editing your gallery with JuiceboxBuilder-Pro, this can be done automatically by selecting 'Images -> Captions -> Use Link URL' from the drop-down menu at the top. The caption fields for all images will then be filled with links to the images so that users can right-click and save the image directly.

How is it done on other responsive sites? Like this one: http://flakphoto.com/exhibition/looking … d/#photo-2? I hope there's a good reason for coding the way that it's done now, because this strikes me as an unfortunate drawback.

I'm also very surprised that the images don't support pinch zooming in iOS devices. This is a shame. What would it take to allow this?

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Not being able to right-click and 'Save Image As...' is likely to be due to all the layers that are stacked on top of the main image (obscuring it from the right-click menu) to make the gallery function as it does (i.e. the Caption Area, Navigation Button hit areas, Button Bar, Gallery Title, AutoPlay status messages). In order to prevent the main image from being obscured by other layers, the functionality of the elements which would normally be on these layers would have to be reduced. The gallery does have an 'Open Image...' button to allow the user direct access to the main image and my workaround above (using the caption to include a direct link to the main image) is easy to implement in JuiceboxBuilder.
With regard to pinch-zooming, this is also likely to be related to the above, whereby the pinch-zoom gesture interferes with the Juicebox controls (such as navigation buttons) which are layered on top of the gallery.

107 Reply by paulr

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Re: Feature Requests

Hmmmm. Did you look at the link I posted? That site also has navigation and other elements superimposed on top of the image, but the functionality of pinch zoom and direct access to the images is unimpeded. I bet there's a way around this.

I understand the caption workaround, but I don't use captions and I imagine a lot of other people chose not to as well. And the Open Image buton is not intuitive. Users won't automatically know they have to use that to download or hotlink an image. If I have to include written instructions somewhere on how to use the web interface, this strikes me as a useability fail.

108 Reply by Felix

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"the Open Image buton is not intuitive. Users won't automatically know they have to use that to download or hotlink an image."

Hopefully it is fairly intuitive. There are not many buttons in the gallery UI, and rolling over the 'open' button shows a tooltip: 'Open Image in a New Window".

That said it may be useful to add a right click 'Save Image As..' option. We will consider that for a future version.

109 Reply by paulr

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Thank you for considering that. I think it would make a big difference. And the ability to zoom with pinch gestures from iOS would make a bigger difference. Very sad to think that people on small screens won't have easy access to the details in the shrunk images.

110 Reply by paulr

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Re: Feature Requests

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.

  • Registered: 2012-10-21
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Re: Feature Requests

I need a option that it I could have 4 or more images in one slide, instead of just one photo, four or five, and it could be configurable.
ex.Photos per Slide [5]
the thumbnails below following the order shown above, it's that possible?

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@pedro.pissarra

This is not possible using JuiceboxBuilder-Pro. You would need to create your own composite images in an image manipulation program such as Photoshop prior to feeding them to JuiceboxBuilder-Pro and your gallery would have only one thumbnail per composite image (not one thumbnail for each image within a composite image).

113 Reply by paulr

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Felix wrote:

"the Open Image buton is not intuitive. Users won't automatically know they have to use that to download or hotlink an image."

Hopefully it is fairly intuitive. There are not many buttons in the gallery UI, and rolling over the 'open' button shows a tooltip: 'Open Image in a New Window".

Well, my girlfriend is a web developer (she built the entire site for PBS, among other things), and when I showed my web galleries to her and her colleagues, they did not figure out the Open Image button without my showing it to them. I just asked them, "what would you do if you wanted to download or hotlink one of these images?" and they were baffled—not just by how to do it, but by why it would be difficult. They did not actually look at the code ... I was just asking them as web users.

114 Reply by paulr

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Re: Feature Requests

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.

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@paulr

If you set screenMode="SMALL", your gallery will initially display a thumbnail page (without a main image) from which a user can select a main image. The user can then return to the thumbnail page via the Thumbnail Button on the Button Bar.
For more information about Screen Modes, please see here.

With Juicebox-Pro v1.2.0, you can also specify a grid of thumbnails to the left or right of the main image (in Large Screen Mode).
Please see the Thumbnail Options for more information.

116 Reply by paulr

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Re: Feature Requests

Thanks Steven. I'll play with this. It might be a decent workaround, but I suspect you could do better with a user-selctable thumbnail view option desiged for big screens.

  • Registered: 2012-09-24
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Re: Feature Requests

On a nature photography site, I think that having the title of an image appear as a tooltip when the thumbnail for the image is moused-over would be highly-desirable.

If a viewer of the site is looking for something in particular, the only way to currently see the title is to go through all the large images one-by-one.

  • Registered: 2012-11-26
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Re: Feature Requests

Hi Juicebox team ! Thank you very much for the great work.

I want to +1 all those who asked for other choices of transition, especially "cross-fade" between two images rather than fade to background. I do think it would be easier for the eyes. But it doesn't have to be one or the other, maybe it could be just another choice of transition.

I would just like to know if that's something you would consider or is it a definitive "no, it is not possible" ?

Thank you !

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@sylvia

Adding a cross-fade transition type is something which we are currently considering and this will hopefully be implemented in a future version of Juicebox-Pro (although I do not know when this may be).

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Re: Feature Requests

Ok no problem, this is nice to know it's coming :)
Thank you ! ^^

  • Registered: 2012-12-06
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Re: Feature Requests

I've been using this gallery for nearly a month now, and I have to thank you for your great work. We discussed these things on other topics, but I just want to remind you my thoughts about missing things on Juicebox;

-Localization on top right icons' title names
-API Calls on fullscreen view (to make mousewheel-navigation working)
-Pinch to zoom enabled on iphone (an option to disable touch events)

I hope we will get an upgrade in a short time period with all the features demanded.

btw, Happy new year!

  • Registered: 2012-05-01
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Re: Feature Requests

Hi,

I have some JuiceboxBuilder Pro requests for the next build:

Position of Backgrond image (left, right, centralize, padding)
Text color of Title independent from Text color of picture description

kind regards

Hans

  • Registered: 2013-01-01
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Re: Feature Requests

Please come up with a place where we can save PREFERENCES..
Like  NO RESIZE IMAGES and ITPC Choice in caption, and Title  choice, like NONE or whatever. That would be great, as the presets don't seem to save those things and it has to get put in each time. Actually, for how I use it, I would really like the TITLE of Gallery to be savable in a preset. 

I have about 13 different galleries where I use the same preset except I change the title of each gallery. So that for me would be great, as I can just duplicate the preset, and pre type in each title so each time I use it, I won't have to type it again. But as I mentioned above, the Caption choice and Title choice, should be set in preferences.
Thanks..   learning this program little by little.. but looking good, and with future updates, I'll bet it will be quite amazing!



Felix wrote:

Please reply to this post with any suggestions for features you would like to see added to Juicebox-Pro. We are listening.

124 Reply by jhob

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Any chance you'd be able introduce a smoother fade transition?  At the moment one image disappears before the next displays.  It would look slicker if the next image faded in as the last faded out.  As it is the images flash up at you.

Many thanks
John

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@jhob

Introducing a cross fade transition is on the roadmap and should hopefully be included in a future version of Juicebox-Pro (although I do not know when this may be).