Gallery Portlet

Gallery Portlet provides a single portlet which displays serie of images using JQuery fade in/out animation.

Project Description

Gallery Portlet provides a single portlet which displays serie of images using JQuery fade in/out animation.

I have created this simple portlet to be able to display a serie of images from the portal with fade in/out. It can be also done with the use of flash or animated gif, but I wanted to display images stored within the site.

You can see demo working on page: www.se.cs.put.poznan.pl

To make it more adjusted to your needs you can use plone.app.imaging, which will help you in creating different resizing functions.

Tested with: Plone 3.3

Installation:

[buildout]
eggs = ...
       se.portlet.gallery

zcml = ...
       se.portlet.gallery

Distribution at PyPi

Version: 1.2.1-bugfix

• fixed problem with [enters] in descriptions of images

Version: 1.2-final

• added tranlsations: pt-br (by Davi Lima),
• you can disable portlet border, header, footer with omit border option
  
• you can display image descriptions under the image (configurable font size and color)
  

Version: 1.1-final

• added tranlsations: de (by Thomas Massmann), fr (by Jean-Philippe Camguilhem), pl
• images are searched based on addition-date in reverse order
• images can be shuffled
• $ (jquery) which in Plone 3.3 is changed to 'jq' can now be configured
  

Version: 1.0-final

• removed dependency from plone.app.layout.navigation.root
• fixed description of configuration fields
  
• fixed width param
  

Version: 1.0dev

You can control:

• title - or leave blank 
  
• width - or leave blank to leave standard width
• height
  
• content types which should be treated as images
• workflow state
• paths where images will be looked for (you can have a single folder or many ...)
• image size using PIL (e.g. mini, thumb ...)
• animation properties (interval between slides, number of steps in animation)

Issues:

• JQuery - it is based on JQuery lib, which is available in Plone 3. If your version of Plone doesn' have jquery installed you can add it yourself. There is important issue however. Plone changes $ to jq to avoid confilcts. If your version didn't change this you have to do it yourself.
• fixed in 1.1-final- there is a new configuration option, which enables you to adjust JQuery $ symbol to your version of Plone