Acidfree albums and Flash gallery

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I'd like to integrate acid free album support to flash gallery module and enable it to work with cck and image field in this year's Gsoc. I'm now a college student and I wish I can participate in this great project.

The Acid free image album module is the best choice to manage a photo album with Drupal. And Simplerviewer is also a very popular flash slide show programme. Although know the Simpleviewer can work smoothly with flash gallery module(which now is sub module in swf tools project), it can't work with acid free album. So some useful features, such as nested galleries, are missing. I'd like to make it work with cck too. I believe this will provide more flexibility to users.

I've made a patch to standalone version of flash gallery to make it support cck and image field. But it just only works. I wish I can make it better and publish it through this Gsoc.

These are the features I wish to implement
1, Using Flash gallery to view the photo album managed by Acidfree.
2, Make Flash gallery support nested galleries.
3, Enable Flash gallery to view the node which is created by cck and has image fields.

I'm also wondering that is it possible to create a API frame work to Swf tools . Can anyone help me out of this question?

Thanks,

Yang Tao

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gdd's picture

Crossposting to image group to promote more feedback.

Great idea!

casperl's picture

Yang, this is probably not the appropriate place to comment, but speaking as a mere user of Drupal with only minimal technical skills, this promises to be a very useful module to me.

I have invested heavily on Acidfree on my sites to the point whereby it is really much more about Acidfree galleries than about the functions of Drupal as far as the majority of my users are concerned. I run Acidfree sites, not Drupal sites!

An alternative mechanism of presenting Acidfree galleries, especially utilising some of the pizaz promised by Flash is sorely required.

From my perspective as an integrator, I am not so much concerned with an alternate methodology that manages Acidfree albums. What I do require is an alternate for displaying the galleries created by Acidfree. And if Flash is used to display those galleries the possibilities - wonderful!

Put in a different way, on http://boerboel.co.za there are thousands of images in hundreds of user galleries. But the present navigation using the interface provided by Acidfree is tedious, unintuitive and is lacking in presentation options. Presently the photos are great, but the presentation is boring, and the present navigational interface is unitiuitive. Furthermore, my presentation options as integrator are limited to making links to individual user galleries with extremely little control over which content is displayed and how it is being displayed - ie as a slide show, or scrollable thumnail bar, popup windows etc.

I hope that this end-user perspective will be valuable in designing and implementing the goals of your project.

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