By no2e on

I want to create a slideshow/gallery. The images are uploaded with ImageField (one image per node) and the nodes (=images) are listed by Views.

Now, I want to limit the node listing to 1 node per page -- this is of course possible with Views + pagination option.

But is there a slideshow/gallery, that can be set on top of this? So that the slideshow/gallery fetches the next image?

Why?
There will be many images, I don't want them to all get loaded. Some users might only look at 5-10 pictures, no need to load all of the ~ 200-400 images.

So, if JavaScript is disabled, just show the normal Views listing - one image per page, with Views pager.
If JavaScript is enabled, show the gallery/slideshow.

Slideshow/gallery?
I want the user to be able to activate the slideshow, or to navigate manually (prev - next). The images should be linked to the nodes. And - important - it should not scroll to the top, when a new image gets loaded (so the gallery should always stay on the same place, no page reload, no size changing).

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mcsolas commented

http://drupal.org/project/cck_pager

Demo:
http://www.psegno.it/cck_pager_photogallery

I am trying to build a photo blog style site with similar image navigation. I am not sure if this will work in my case.. I am tracking photo views & allowing content rating. each image is its own node. from there I am trying to use customer pagers, but cannot figure out how to get it working properly... its strange.. somehow it always limits you to a group of 10 photos. Right now, there is about 800.. so I really need to upgrade this on my site.

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no2e commented

With CCK Pager, your node is the gallery. So you have to upload all the pictures to one node (multiple value field).

But I need a solution, where the content type is the gallery - so each node is an image.

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adam_b commented

http://drupal.org/project/lightbox2

The gallery isn't a content type - it's just an alternative presentation method for Views, with one image per node as you want.

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mcsolas commented

>so each node is an image.
I used the image module to create that content type*. I did this to enable image rating on my photoblog www.crsurfcam.com

From what I understand you could also do this with cck/imagefield. Simply define a field, call is mainimage, limit it to 1, require it and there you are. each node=1 image.

* doing it with cck might be a more flexible solution. I have been moving away from the initial configuration. The image project creates its own content type & creates a menu item with a /gallery page that shows an album list. At first I thought we would use this but the "tags" (a second vocabulary I made later) and a few views pages made the /gallery page seem kind of redundant & I have disabled it from the menu on my site.

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no2e commented

From what I understand you could also do this with cck/imagefield. Simply define a field, call is mainimage, limit it to 1, require it and there you are. each node=1 image

Yeah, this is what I got. But now I need a slideshow.

Something like a better pagination for Views, where you can select auto-cycle (new node every X seconds), for example.

The important part is, that only the next image gets loaded. Otherwise I could use Views Slideshow (http://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow), but as far as I understand, it loads all images at first. This would become a heavy download - because I got several hundred pictures.