We have significantly customized CB Gallery for our Artist's site (
www.hcaaonline.org
) both for the main gallery (we call Portfolio) and for each member's Profile Gallery. Unfortunately, each time there is an update, we spend quite a bit of time modifying these files: /components/com_comprofiler/plugin/language/default_language/language.php; /components/com_comprofiler/plugin/templates/default/fontawesome.css; /components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbgallery/templates/default/template.css; /components/com_comprofiler/plugin/templates/default/jquery/qtip/qtip.css; /components/com_comprofiler/plugin/templates/default/bootstrap.css; and /components/com_comprofiler/plugin/templates/default/template.css.
CB Gallery version 2.4.0+build.2019.01.07.16.33.35.eec2b7e53 was far more than a minor modification, so that many of our "fixes" aren't where we expect them to be. Even though the programming has changed significantly behind the scenes, we have yet to see any actual improvement to the product.
We have restored our site to a pre-2.4 update for the time being and are working on a development server to try to figure it out. We can re-do all the work we did months ago to find all the bits and pieces and what they're called now; however, there are some portions we haven't found at all. For example, the basic look of the Galleries was controlled by the Box Width parameter so that we could control not only the number of thumbnails across each page but the spaces between thumbnails where we inserted a box-shadow to give the images a 3-D appearance. That Box Width option is no longer available, and we've found no way to change the size of the thumbnails, other than modifying the size they are created at when they're uploaded. We have several hundred images, and we're not going to upload all of those to each profile again just to set that thumbnail size. With the new update, the main Gallery has two images side-by-side filling the width of the page (where we previously had
; in the Profile Gallery there are four images side-by-side (instead of the 5 we had before). All thumbnails are against each other, with no padding or space for a box-shadow. Why have thumbnails at all if you can see only two images at a time and have to scroll way down the page to see the 25 thumbnails we want on each page of the Gallery? What are we missing to customize our pages and allow the much nicer view we used to have?
Additionally, when we hover over a thumbnail in the Profile Gallery, we used to have a pop-up of the title of the image, which we centered, with our choice of colors (and shadow), with a transparent background. Now, the title is justified left, on a white background, and underneath is a date associated with the file, which has no utility at all, and we don't want that date. How can it be removed, how can the background go back to transparent, and how can we change the justification and color of the title text?
When we hover over the thumbnail in the main Gallery (not in a Profile), the title is centered under the image, but it's on a white background. We want a transparent background there, too, with control over the title color and hover appearance.
When we click on a thumbnail, we get a "slideshow" view with a panel to the right with the Artist's name (we've always removed the "time ago" display) and additional information attached to the image. We used to center the title under the image and brightened the color so the title was more visible, along with the X in the upper right which was not at all visible against the black background until made lighter. Now, after the update, the title is nowhere to be found until you hover the mouse cursor over the image, then it appears above the image with a large gap below that before the top of the image begins. It is now stuck in the upper left corner, but it is brighter than before, as is the X to close the display. We want that title on all the time and we want to control where it is. We don't see any options for doing that without more editing of CSS files once we research where the new CSS has been placed.
Some time back we had significant problems using GD2 as the image processing software when we uploaded images, particularly when they were high resolution (large files). When we switched to ImageMagick, it worked perfectly all the time, so we discarded the use of GD2. In the 2.4 update to CB Gallery, there is no longer an option to select ImageMagick. The options are Auto and GD2. One must ask what Auto does if there is only one image processing capability installed. Can we expect the same problems with GD2 we used to have when images simply would not upload at all if they were above a certain size (and, no, it wasn't a host server or Joomla limit; we made everything 20MB but anything above about 4MB, as I recall, would not load at all)? What happened to ImageMagick?
We recognize that you're not in the business of customizing our site, and that's not what we're looking for. We will go through all the files listed above again every time you update the software to get the site looking good; however, this time, our first attempts were met with failure because so many of our modifications (the names of the divs, for example, in CSS) just don't exist in the new programming.
But, if we had only one thing that is a deal-breaker, it's that Box Width option that is no longer available (previously, we set the Album Box Width to 200 and the Media Box Width to 212). Perhaps we've missed it, but we see no way to establish how many thumbnails can be displayed horizontally on either the Profile Gallery or the main Gallery.
Anything you can do to help put us on track would be appreciated.
krileon
