About the Webcomic Module
just created a test site and did install the module, got one of our comic artists to upload his stuff and he got a bit pissed off as there was no navigation through the strips, so i tried to see if there was a gallery for webcomics, as the module for uploading the images for the strips I think is great, so tried everything, from installing page route and because I dont know the coding, got a bit frustrated at having to muck about, even with creating categories and containers, because everything is in link form the comics loose a lot of their grab power, whereas if people would see the images straight away they would proceed to look further into the next ones,
Anyway after a couple of hours chatting with David I asked him what he thought would be great or what sites he had seen and used and he came up with these links. So I am hoping that you either create a gallery specially for webcomics or look at these other sites and see how they operate for some inspiration of what the users of the sites and fans do, I have uploaded a lot of our artwork for the project to Comic Space Galleries
http://www.comicspace.com/daughterofhell/ it allows you to upload the images and shift them round and although we havent got actual strips some of my friends have and they are displayed as such like these ones
http://www.comicspace.com/thefallenangel/comics.php?action=gallery&comic...
also the sites that David liked to use are the following and I hope that it gives you some inspiration
http://www.ruxp.net/files/folders/icomicde/entry28.aspx
http://istrip.thiscanthappen.com/
Views hold the key
Basically, from what I understood of your requirement in terms of navigation and strip gallery, here is what we have up to the point.
If the all strips are organized as Storyline > Episode > Strip - they do show up properly, and the different navigation icons( first, prev, next, last) work as required. Also, the gallery view based on episode or story line and other option works.
When it comes to showing the same gallery as a thumbnail image, it seems to spew some error.
The key to getting this workin in Webcomic module, is to have the views integration working. (I am not well versed in the Views API and am trying to wrap my head around it).
Also, if we can get the intention of the different option in the gallery settings of webcomic module, we can either discard the ones that are not needed, and at least, try to create views from scratch for which we understand the requirements.
Thanks for the list of those links. :) Now if we can break them down into bite sized requirements (or bugs in the existing module), it would be easier for people to contribute code/patches and work on them.
I also did some testing with
I also did some testing with the 5.x snapshot, but I DID get the navigation to work.
However, I had to go to the CVS repository and manually download all of the .png image files for navigation (and put them in the img sub-directory which I had to create).
Secondly, I edited webcomic-theme.inc and inserted leading / characters into many of the lines thusly: < img src="/'. $path
I don't know if that's the right way to fix it or if I have something configured incorrectly, but I noticed in my error logs that there were file not found errors for the navigation arrows that could be resolved simply by having that leading slash.
My drupal installation is "normal", i.e. it is in the root of the server....well, virtual root as it's a shared host. Everything else seems to be working fine...webcams, blog, video, gallery(though this was a pain).
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Hmm - weird
You should be able to use the 5.x-dev snapshot. Weird. I will try to put some hours into it.
To be honest, I have not been able to put much effort into this for past month and a half. I have gotten a bit more understanding of the views module.
And madbunny, you can use the Report a new bug page to submit bug reports on Webcomic.
If you have a good experience in getting your feet wet with Drupal code, patches are welcome. :) I certainly can allocate some time to review patches and push them into CVS.
okay after mucking about
with views, custom pagers and CCK to create an image gallery, as I found the image module was murder for displaying stuff and creating galleries, and believe me I tried numerous times I managed to create image galleries using the cck, custom pagers and views which worked great.
Is there any way of geting the webcomic module to work with cck imagefield, as this would make the navigation so much easier. I know understand the views module a lot better using this method, and all the extras you can have with it.
Would their be any way of having an option to choose whether you use imagefield or image module? Please, please please?
CCK + Imagefield + Views
That is something I discussed with Eaton yestereday at IRC. He said it was a better approach that what we have been doing now.
Kerry, I believe you have had some success with using CCK + Imagefield module in creating all the different content type: Storyline, Episode, Comic Strip, and Bio. Could you document it somewhere, so I can reproduce it quick, and then try and figure out how I can do it programatically - that is through APIs when activating the webcomic module?
You could start another WikiPage. :)
Take a look at this:
(This was supposed to a reply to Vyoma's comment about CCK and Views... obviously I clicked the wrong link somewhere)...
This might give you some ideas to work with...
http://www.ubersoft.net/comic/hd
Each comic is a CCK node with a CCK image field that uploads the comic itself. I also use Custom Templates to allow me to add the custom pagers and the little comic menu bar (as well as the transcription data on the full node view of the comic). I use Drupal's built-in taxonomies to categorize it by comic, storyline, and episode, and then use views to create my archives and my character bio pages.
I am actually working on writing up how I put all of it together, but I'm a bit distracted by other things at the moment.
As far as I know this doesn't yet work with Drupal 6, because not everything has been ported...
Thanks for that info. :)
Will have a look at that.
Now, that we know we can get it working with CCK + ImageField, I just need to get it done programatically.
This is something I got after some search - putting it here for record: G.D.O #10249