Is there a way to prepend a loading gif to Galleria? If so, what would need changing? The actual Galleria.js plugin or galleria.js.

This is what I would like to do:

I want galleria to display only after it has completely loaded the images as it looks really messy for a few seconds in IE.

Are there any ideas on how to acheive this: Hide the contents of Galleria first, then display a loading gif to indicate it is loading the contents?

Any suggestions on how to achieve this would be great!
Thanks

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Mark Theunissen’s picture

Mark Theunissen CreditAttribution: Mark Theunissen commented

I'm not sure, you may have more success getting support from the creators of the actual Galleria plugin for this task.

fallsemo’s picture

fallsemo CreditAttribution: fallsemo commented

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, I checked support off the Galleria forums and there's really only a loading bar solution but it requires Jquery UI and Jquery 1.3 :(

I tried wrapping the script with a loading.gif myself but for some reason, any version of IE continues to load galleria and does not complete - so I'm left with my loading.gif still spinning over the image.

This load issue even effects the sites example http://devkick.com/lab/galleria/demo_01.htm.

Mark Theunissen’s picture

Mark Theunissen CreditAttribution: Mark Theunissen commented

Yeah... sorry but it's a hugely frustrating issue for me trying to massage these things into working together. ;)

You could try looking at the Lightbox source and see how they implement their loading images. No doubt there's a trick somewhere.

fallsemo’s picture

fallsemo CreditAttribution: fallsemo commented

That's a good idea.

I will post a follow up if I come up with a solution.

Thanks again

Mark Theunissen’s picture

Mark Theunissen CreditAttribution: Mark Theunissen commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)
eromba’s picture

eromba CreditAttribution: eromba commented

My patch for #436354: Galleria images load full size and stack down the page hides the image list before Galleria is loaded. You can also check out my patch for #444948: Galleria flickers when changing images, which makes image transitions smoother. Using them together, I bet you'll find that a loading animation isn't even necessary.