Comments on: PicasaViewer: embed a picasa gallery in your site

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!

By: amos

amos — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:14:20 +0000

Hi – love the script excellent work. When I get to the end of an album, the slimbox still displays Next and the loader spins and spins. In your example it knows when there are no more photos, and only the Close button is available. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot or where that detection is controlled? Thank you!