Hi Stramm,
Vuud was able to diagnose the problem on the CPMFetch, at least for one of them. I did something very unconventional -- I placed the photos outside of the Coppermine Gallery itself, based from another thread. It works that way also, but the CPMFetch was designed to recognize the photos to be in the default "albums". He suggested a patch to deal with the uncoventional placement of the pics -- and that solved the problem.
Anyway, in regard your mod, the "square pics" creation worked, as I told you in another thread. However, certain things did not work properly. Here are some of them:
(1) I opted for some features, like having the "mini-thumbs" in the slide show. The mini-thumbs worked for the "Classic" theme but not for the "Hardwired" or the other themes I opted to keep -- all of them showed the standard larger thumbs. So there must be something in the code of the Classic that was not in the others.
Because of the discrepancy, I cannot add as many thumbs at the bottom of the slide show. To illustrate this point: five (5) of "150pix thumbs" would almost fill the reel in the slide show, but five (5) of "75pix thumbs" in the working Classic would look odd -- it no longer looks like a film negative since only a portion of the simulated film reel was filled.
(2) Among the options also was ability to use the "mini-thumbs" for the icon of the Album folders -- as was shown in your Demo website. I double-checked several times that I "checked" the appropriate boxes in the "Config" in the "Album list view", i.e., I specified 75 pixels for size and checked "Yes" for "Use mini thumb as category lead image".
Here is what happened when I did that. When I just created an album, the "mini thumb" size, as specified did indeed show; but once I placed photos, mainly using the "batch load", the empty album image was then replaced with the standard thumb size. In my case the standard thumb size is 150 -- so it is quite huge, and occupies much height space, especially if I have many albums.
I observed the above tansformation from mini to standard thumbs -- once the album is filled -- in all the themes, including the Classic. So, I was not getting the same "mini thumbs" as shown in your Demo page.
(3) I think I observed this after I applied the "mod". If I chose the default of "last uploaded" photo as the image showing in the "Album", the image in the Album folder would change, everytime I added a new photo. I believe this was the case a long time ago -- not sure now -- before I added your mod.
Now, if I added say ten photos in one batch -- using the batch mode -- the last photo in that batch did indeed appear as the image in the Album. However, the next time I added more, the last of the newly added set of photos would no longer replace the image in the album -- even if I still kept the default, "last photo:, as the option to apear in the Album image icon.
(4) This is no longer a bug, but more on aesthetic appearance. If I could get the "mini thumbs" to work, not only in the Classic but in all, the "reel" icon -- to simulate a film roll -- placed at the top and bottom of the pics in the slide show appear disproportionately large relative to the "mini thumbs". Is there a way to proportionately reduce the "reel" icons? The standard size of the "reel" icon did not appear nice in proportion to "mini thumbs", so I may opt to remove the icon if I cannot reduce it, proportionately. I may just opt to replace it with a hairline, but thaat may look not as nice either.
(5) Again, not a bug. I am not too fond of too many icons either, like the smilies in the comment box, so I removed those in the Config option. Is there a more elegant alternative to the simulated "one star" to "five stars" for the photo-rating? I wish I could remove them -- because they detract with the elegant appearance of the photo in the slide show page. Unfortunately, I need a democratic mode of rating the photos, since I am interested to give the visitors a chance to help select what photos to be kept, if the maximum number of photos in an album is fixed.
On the whole, I find the "squared thumbnail" as very useful. I wish to commend you again for developing that mode.
One possible advance in the "squared thumbnail" would be an option to manipulate specific photos that do not provide a good squared thumbnail. This is true for extreme disproportionate "vertical" or "horizontal" photos.
Again, thanks for the mod.
cgc0202