Fullscreen Viewer, ideas and questions (maxiMEE lite)

[baerlichkeit]

Hello everyone.

First, I have to thank you for this great piece of software. I'm absolutely new to this photoblogging-thing, and Pixelpost supports me perfect

Ok,
I also have a gallery, and there some sort of "fullscreen-viewer" runs, and maxiMEE (as I call it) is the successor with more functions. I currently work on it, and it's not finished, but you can see a "demo" inside a Coppermine-Gallery installation here.

So far, so "unfinished"

Pixelpost is simple, and I love it! But I also love to view photos without anything else than the black/white background. So I thought a fullscreen-button, opening the photo in fullscreen, and a click on the image closing it, would be all I need.

I came up with a little "more-than-pre-alpha-version" of it. It is a

- flash-button, wich opens an image in fullscreen
- the program resizes the image in a smooth way, not just scaling it, to fit the visitors screen
- there is a config-xml

See it in "action" here (it's the button only, click it )

Before I end up with a program no one else than me can use, I have some questions left, and I will be very very happy, if I found some people out there answering

1. Would you prefer an self-defined image as a button, or just text that is displayed on a "flash-button"?
2. Should there be anything more than opening in fullscreen and click the image to close it functionality?
3. Many people out there use switchable themes (background colors) in their templates. Again the question, would it be better to use different images for the button, or is the use of color-definitions inside the config.xml preferred?
4. any other ideas?

So, any suggestions, ideas, help is greatly appreciated, and I thank you for reading this post

BTW, integration of the button is simple. All you need is SWFobject (a javascript class to embed flash) and little code in your template.

a div-container holding the flash-button

<div align="center" id="flashcontent" >
		<a href="http://adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"  target="_blank">You nee the last version of Adobes Flash Player. (Klick to go to Adobes Site)</a>	  </div>
</div>

and some Javascript embedding the button in this div

<script type="text/javascript">
function addSwfs(){
   var so = new SWFObject("maxiMEELite-debug.swf", "vollbild", "100", "20", "9.0.115.0", "0x0000FF");
   so.addParam("allowFullScreen", "true");
   so.addVariable("url", "image.jpg");
   so.addVariable("buttonText","fullscreen");
   so.write("flashcontent");
}  
</script>

Have a nice Sunday
Andreas

[kevincrafts]

Your demo was just a blank page for me on Safari 3.1.1

[baerlichkeit]

I'm sorry, did not test it with Safari.

Used an old version of SWFobject, and this one did not work.

Does this one work for you?
http://wurzel.makrograf.com/maximee/...008/index.html

Thanks Andreas

[kevincrafts]

Yep that worked fine. I was actually thinking about this the other day after seeing some full screen youtube videos. That would be a nice addon.

[baerlichkeit]

Hi,
ok, today I had some time and created an addon (perhaps I'm in the wrong category of this forum, now )

Before I release something (still have to "clean" the code etc.) perhaps someone can have a look at and tell me, if it works.

http://makrograf.com

The button can be found in the top-center.

It supports multilingual sites and works with transparent png's as button.



Thank you
Andreas