This support page is not intended to be intensive but a mere quick explanation to the most common questions, you can get more in-depth answers at JonDesign's.net. 1. Can i have more instances of Smooth Gallery on my site?Yes! You can have as many instances of the Smooth Gallery module on your site as you wish, but you can only have one per page.
2. Do i need to install the Smooth Gallery for every instance i want to have on my site?No! All you need to do is use the administrators copy feature within admin to copy the module, everything will work perfectly.
3. Why can't i see the thumbnails even though i see the main image and the thumbnail placeholders?The most common cause for this is a typo in the url that you would type in from the admin module parameters, please check your spelling and the url itself. The url should look something like:
Main image folder: images/myfolder
Thumbnail image folder: images/myfolder/thumbs
if it doesn't pick up the images add a trainling slash / at the end of the url parameter.
4. How do i add titles, descriptions and a link?You need to create a text file (.txt) that has the same name as the actual image, so if your image is called smoothgallery.jpg, then your text file will be called smoothgallery.txt. The text file will go in the main directory, i.e. the directory where the main image resides. You don’t need to create thumbnails, you can use the same images, the script will deal with everything. The format of the text file will be as follows: URL
TITLE
DESCRIPTION Therefore it might look like: http://www.perfectdesigning.net
Smooth Gallery
This is a cool smooth gallery developed by Derek Buntin @ Perfect Designing Ltd. 5. Do i need to create thumbnail images?If you don’t want to have thumbnails just make both url parameters within the module admin the same, so if the url to your main image is images/myimagefolder, just make the thumbnail one the same, although I can’t remember if they are scaled, try it and see. We will be integrating a script that will automatically scale images so let me get that integrated into the next release, it also stores the scaled images in a cache folder too. 6. Can i alter the dimensions of the gallery?Yes you can edit the dimensions of the gallery from within the css file within root/modules/mod_pd_smoothgallery/pd_moothgallery/jdgallery.css. Everything regarding the look of the gallery is controlled from there; there is another css file you can edit in that same folder.
7. Does the gallery work with the slimbox javascript or Ajax?No, as far as i am aware they do not work well together, nor does it work with some Ajax code either.
8. I get this error, what does it mean and how can i solve it? Warning: opendir(/images/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/XXX/public_html/modules/mod_pd_smoothgallery.php on line 71 Warning: readdir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /home/XXX/public_html/modules/mod_pd_smoothgallery.php on line 72 Warning: closedir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /home/XXX/public_html/modules/mod_pd_smoothgallery.php on line 78
This means you have not configured the path to your images yet. Go into your administration and open the pd_smoothgallery module and edit the paremeters there making sure you change the path to your images.
9. How do i make the link popup in a new window? Open up jd.gallery.js and replace line number 96 with this: title: '',
target: '_blank' and then save, upload and refresh your browser. If you still can't work it out or need help please contact us .
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