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By: amos

amos — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:20:31 +0000

My attempt to pull the description didn’t work
Any direction you could provide on how this can be accomplished will be a significant enhancement and greatly appreciated!! Please consider developing and sharing. Best, thanks + thank you for everything we don’t thank you enough for!!

By: Lennart

Lennart — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:09:31 +0000

I’ve been away for a while and forgot to respond to some comments. So, better late than never:

@uiucphoenix:
You need to change the first part of line 78 ( $$(“a”) ). Now every a-element is selected. If you change it to $(‘photos’).getElements(‘a’), only the images in the album should be selected.

@whershfeld
You can hardcode an album by changing line 30 to

var url = ‘http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/'+ username +’/albumid/’+ < > +’?category=photo&alt=json&callback=viewPhotoList&thumbsize=’ + thumbsize +’&imgmax=’+imgmax

Make sure you change < > to the correct album id.

@gaetanlamaille
Try installing Firebug in Firefox and see where your browser tries to find the files.

@amos
A bit of a guess: the description is probably located in item.description.$t (check that please), so you can change line 66 to something like “var title = item.title.$t + item.description.$t;

By: amos

amos — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:24:11 +0000

Hi Lennart. Picasa Albums have an optional Description field. How can the album descriptions be pulled into the tops of album pages, like here for example: http://tinyurl.com/ozo25k ? Thanks!!

By: gaetanlamaille

gaetanlamaille — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:43:55 +0000

sorry, the html codes I tried to put in my message didn’t appear

I inserted the CSS files with the element link rel=stylesheet type=text/CSS href=css/filename.css
and the Javascript files with the element script type=text/javascript src=js/filename.js

By: gaetanlamaille

gaetanlamaille — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:27:36 +0000

Hello Lennart, your script seems to be just what I need. The problem is : I can’t work with Javascript. I tried to include the Javascript and CSS to my page like this:

…but nothing appears on my webpage. Can you tell me what I exactly have to do to include the Javascript and CSS files? What do I have to change in picasaViewer.js? (For example where do I have to write my username?)

Thanks a lot!!

By: whershfeld

whershfeld — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:47:53 +0000

Thanks so much for your hard work in developing a truly useful and impressive way to share photos via Picasa!

I’m using your script for http://kendylart.com/paintings/

Is there a way to embed a specific album? I’ve looked through the script and haven’t figured out how to link to one album rather than all of them… I’m fine to hard code it –

Thanks again!

By: uiucphoenix

uiucphoenix — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:22:38 +0000

The script works great but I wanted to integrate it into my website and the Lightbox wants to be applied to every image on the page. Please see here: http://www.cspack15.org/gallery_main.html?&albumid=5359224708163307249

How can I get it so that Lightbox only applies to the images within the gallery and not my navigation?

By: drdwcai

drdwcai — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:52:27 +0000

Hi – I just stumbled across this script and it works flawlessly! Thank you very much for releasing something so useful. I just have one questions regarding how the script interacts with videos loaded on Picasa. I uploaded a small video to my Picasa account and when the script roams over it, it grabs the first frame and then treats it as a image rather than a video. Do you think it would be possible to embed a video into the same scheme of the slideshow? Just curious about this, because it would be very cool and useful.

Thanks!

By: Lennart

Lennart — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:45:35 +0000

Hi amos, I would start by looking at the slimbox-script, or at the generated html. See if the last image you view is the last image present in the source code. Success!