I really need comments for individual pictures and I'm wondering if the engine (the one that you have to purchase) is still compatible with the latest versions of Gallerix? It seems like it has been taken off the homepage so I want to make sure before I pay for it.

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AlexisWilke commented

mrwhizkid,

Did you try the development version? Because I turned on the comments on that one. There is a problem because of the # double use but it works otherwise.

Thank you.
Alexis

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mrwhizkid commented

Hi -- Thanks for the quick reply.

Actually, the DEV version does seem to give the option of commenting on albums but not individual photos. I think I read before that the engine gives users this option which is why I was wondering if it still works with the current version of Gallerix?

Some of my users are complaining about the fact that they can't comment on individual photos...

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AlexisWilke commented

I haven't seen anything in the code that would indicate that it ever supported commenting on a per photo basis.

Now the problem when you comment is that the Save adds #comment-<id&gt and that causes problems with the current photo.

The Album is ONE node, so you can comment that one node. All the photos of an album are attached to that one node. That means we have only one comment thread.

You may have seen that in another gallery system...

The comment system is so bad, adding such capability would be quite annoying. What we'd need is the ID of the photo being commented attached to the comment. Then we could display the comment whenever that specific picture is selected. So in principal easy... in practice, loads of work. 8-)

Now, I'd accept a patch!

Thank you.
Alexis

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mrwhizkid commented

Hi. I had assumed that you were somehow associated with the previous maintainer of the module but maybe I am wrong about that...

Here is a post that I found: http://drupal.org/node/230730 ...from the previous maintainer...

At one time, he was advertising this link: http://the.failbo.at/gallerix_widget_engine

Supposedly, if you purchased this engine, it would add greatly to the functionality of this module...including the ability to comment on specific photos.

Funny thing though...I had just checked that link out a few days ago and it worked but now it's giving me a 404.

I am wondering if he would be willing to share that code with us because it sounded like it made this module even better.

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AlexisWilke commented

Ha! 8-)

I may have read that post before, but I don't remember. Anyway, there was a problem with the comments that made them break because of that anchor.

The page you tried (the fail boat) is gone. The previous author turned it off. He had some module extension that he was selling for $15 or so... But he was not really maintaining Gallerix so I took over. There are many little things I'd like to do, but first I'd like to have a 1.5 out... so I need to fix a few more problems (image filename case is one of them and the JS to remove the use of the anchor is another.)

Thank you.
Alexis

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mrwhizkid commented

Thanks, Alexis. Actually, the module is quite good as it is right now and I am using it on two of my biggest sites. So, for now, I am happy just to have the comments on the album.

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frenk commented

Aaah this is really sad..

Best looking photogallery for me, but I do need comments per picture.

Gonna try Node Gallery.

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ghede commented

For what it's worth, I've got the widget engine installed on a small personal site of mine. I like 'em. If I recall correctly, the comment and story widgets were supposed to allow individual photo comments and stories. They never really worked correctly. I have the comment widget turned on. You can comment on individual photos, and it will stick to the photo you commented on, that is, until you view a different photo (I use the little arrow widgets to cycle through the photos in an album). Then the comment shows up on picture #1 of that album. In turn, all comments end up on photo #1 for whatever album their in.

Personally, I really like gallerix. It's my favorite photo app for Drupal. If the comment and story widgets were fixed, well now, that would really be something.

@AlexisWilke
If you'd like to take a look at the widgets, I'd love to test any fixes you can find!

Best regards,
James

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AlexisWilke commented

ghede,

Comments are not attached to a picture, they are attached to the node where you have the pictures.

You can post the comment at any time which may effectively make it look like you're attaching it to a specific image, but that's really not the case. To do that would require a very special handling of the comments which do not really have the interface to do that at this point.

Now I'd like to put some more time in this module, but I'm really short these days... 8-(

If you can produce a patch, however, I'd be glad to look into it.

Thank you.
Alexis

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