Imagecache for image handling

I would also like to use imagecache for a different reason - to present thumbnails in a square format, scaled cropped and centered - I can do this using imagecache but at least so far have not been able to figure out how to do it with brilliant gallery.

BG already can cache images either in the database or in the file system (very fast). Therefore there is no need to invoke module imagecache.

See the caching selection in your /admin/settings/brilliant_gallery

Cheers,

Tomáš

Hi there,

Re opening this one up, as I don't think the issue was address. The request was for images that could be scaled, cropped and centered (the same functionality that imagecache uses) The current ability of BG is to set the width of the thumbnail, but the height is then calculated automatically to maintain the original aspect ratio of the image. What we are after, is the ability to have uniform width and height of thumbnails, not just uniform width.

Any chance the BG module could use the imagecache module or method of doing this, as a feature request.

And fantastic module BTW.

Two more point that could be added to documentation are the need to run the html filter before the BG filter, as the html filter strips out the bg tags, making galleries not display.

The other point to be added to documentation, is the fact that text always wraps to the right of a BG gallery display. One user suggested the very helpful idea of inserting
, see poster 5 at this topic http://drupal.org/node/318208

But this solution is not helpful when end users are inserting text and galleries with a wysiwyg editor like fckeditor. They would need to disable the editor, and insert this tag after each gallery. I tried adding clear: both as CSS to the
tag, but this had no affect. So not sure if this is feature request or bug.

I hope these issues can be address, many thanks, and can help to test any patches for these requests.
Renaee.