FW7-Exhibeo resize to fit vertically

I’ve spent ages trying every permutation I can think of, but I can’t get an Exhibeo gallery to resize ‘to fit’ vertically. The vertical images extend beyond the page.

(I am trying to build a very simple test site, to see how well it works for me).


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Or a simple test site that illustrates the problem, as I cannot fathom what
that is from your description of it.


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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:28 AM, grantsymon email@hidden wrote:

I’ve spent ages trying every permutation I can think of, but I can’t get
an Exhibeo gallery to resize ‘to fit’ vertically. The vertical images
extend beyond the page.

(I am trying to build a very simple test site, to see how well it works
for me).


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You don’t say what theme are you using, though I think they’re all designed for horizontal resizing over vertical resizing.

Joe

On 16 Oct 2014, at 11:28, grantsymon email@hidden wrote:

I’ve spent ages trying every permutation I can think of, but I can’t get an Exhibeo gallery to resize ‘to fit’ vertically. The vertical images extend beyond the page.

(I am trying to build a very simple test site, to see how well it works for me).


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Sorry guys, I should have put up a couple of test pages.

So using the Showtime theme, very roughly done but it gives an idea … when you choose the vertical (red) image it is not resized to fit the available window space.

http://test-1.grantsymon.com/test/exhibeo-test-1.html

However, when using the Thumblie theme and you select at the vertical image, then resize … in any direction … it zooms around fabulously to fit.

http://test-1.grantsymon.com/test/exhibeo-test-2.html

I’m not certain at this stage which theme I would want to use, but I would definitely want the verticals to fit the visible page size whichever it turns out to be.


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Grant, I’m not sure I’ve got this right - your focus on the vertical image
makes it sound as if you think the vertical image should be resized down to
fit the vertical space a horizontal image occupies. Which in fact is not
the case with either example.

If by some chance you are talking about how Thumblie resizes with the
browser and Showtime does not, that’s because the Showtime code creates a
fixed-size container. This can be made flexible, by hacking the Exhibeo
export file as some have suggested. Something of a learning experience.


Ernie Simpson

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:24 AM, grantsymon email@hidden wrote:

Sorry guys, I should have put up a couple of test pages.

So using the Showtime theme, very roughly done but it gives an idea …
when you choose the vertical (red) image it is not resized to fit the
available window space.

http://test-1.grantsymon.com/test/exhibeo-test-1.html

However, when using the Thumblie theme and you select at the vertical
image, then resize … in any direction … it zooms around fabulously to
fit.

http://test-1.grantsymon.com/test/exhibeo-test-2.html

I’m not certain at this stage which theme I would want to use, but I would
definitely want the verticals to fit the visible page size whichever it
turns out to be.


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Hi Erns,

I’m talking about the first case. You’re right that in the Thumblie theme, the stage (correct term?) res-sizes to fit a horizontal/vertical, BUT, what I was trying to demonstrate, is that as a result, it also re-sizes to fit the verticals into the available screen dimensions.

If you look at the other galleries on my site (just click one of the links to the left) you will see that the galleries resize (clunkily) to fit the window dimensions, so that there is a consistent presentation and the viewer always sees all images in their entirety, not matter what size they have their browser window and without having to re-size the window or scroll the image.

From what you said, I fear this is going to be a show-stopper for Exhibeo??


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Actually … having just looked at the Thumblie theme again (2nd) it does in fact resize the images, without altering the stage. It centres the horizontals (vertically) but other than that, it doesn’t change anything … however … the images (horizontal and vertical) … are all completely visible on the page (no cut-off). If you make your browser window quite small, you’ll see what I mean.


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Place your stuff relative (inflow) rather than absolute and a left positioning of 159px and I see increasing chances for a working Exhibeo.

It’s 99% a question of basics construction (and iFraming your own stuff is kind of unacceptable).

Cheers

Thomas


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Thanks Thomas,

first off … thanks for the ‘inflow’ pointer because now I understand why sometimes I see the the blue CSS checkbox in the Inspector and sometimes not … and I have a much better understanding of how I should be building a responsive site (well sort of … I learned by using the Floral template, but it hardly uses any percentages and I’m not sure why that decision was made. I guess there must be a good reason, but most of what I see here suggests percentages are king.)

So below is, I believe, an inflow layout and I still have the same issue:

http://test-2.grantsymon.com/test/exhibeo-test-4.html

To explain what I’m seeing … here’s a screen-grab movie. I get exactly the same behaviour in Mavericks/Safari and Yosemite/Safari on separate Macs:

http://test-2.grantsymon.com/exhibeo.mov

N.B. The last thing I do in the movie, is show the problem with verticals, but I can’t reload the gallery without it reverting to the 1st image. However, it is always overflowing (correct term?) the page, no matter what I’ve tried.

Any suggestions?


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Thomas,

forgot to ask. My iFrame site is several years old and I had an idea that it was not the best way … but how else do you reference an image gallery in this way?


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No one any idea on what’s going wrong here? :frowning:


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… already answered:

Place ALL items relative (inline - inflow, if not to say BoxInBox Model) - and I guess it’ll work.

Cheers

Thomas


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Sorry Thomas, I thought that was what I had done?? Did you look at my last couple of links?

Any ideas on why the vertical resizing works until a second page loads, then it breaks? (in the screen-grab movie)


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