smughack: bulk zoom thumbnail (super deluxe version)

devbobo · April 29, 2009

brandofamily wrote:

dunno

so, I wrote this hack a long time ago, before I worked for SmugMug when I had loads of free time to do cool stuff like hacks or 3rd party apps for community. Unfortunately, now with having two small children i'm not so lucky...and most of my time goes towards developing new stuff (one such project has some exciting improvements which may actually reduce the need for this hack) that will benefit everyone and not just a few who choose to use hacks.

I have been hoping that someone from the community would step up and look at fixing the issue....but obviously that hasn't happened.

brandofamily · April 29, 2009

devbobo wrote:

so, I wrote this hack a long time ago, before I worked for SmugMug when I had loads of free time to do cool stuff like hacks or 3rd party apps for community. Unfortunately, now with having two small children i'm not so lucky...and most of my time goes towards developing new stuff (one such project has some exciting improvements which may actually reduce the need for this hack) that will benefit everyone and not just a few who choose to use hacks.

I have been hoping that someone from the community would step up and look at fixing the issue....but obviously that hasn't happened.

Thanks for all you do Dev. You've done a ton for me personally...

I hope the work on this new feature goes well and it can be released soon as the hack version is such a time saver I'm having issues setting up my new galleries w/o it... Thanks again...
I definitely understand the lack of time issue...

Allen · April 30, 2009

Sure hope something shows up for bulk cropping and zooming thumbs, it
now takes me hours doing one at a time for every new gallery.

afarber · May 3, 2009

Agreed. This is CRITICAL. Without some sort of bulk zooming capability, square thumbs are virtually useless.

We really do appreciate your work, Dev! I just hope that SM makes this a priority for proper implementation.

Allen wrote:

Sure hope something shows up for bulk cropping and zooming thumbs, it
now takes me hours doing one at a time for every new gallery.

devbobo · May 4, 2009

bump, new version (3.4)

The Bulk Zoom Thumbnail option now appears under the Tools button..

Allen · May 4, 2009

devbobo wrote:

bump, new version (3.4)

The Bulk Zoom Thumbnail option now appears under the Tools button..

I only have four items showing, not the new fifth.

Hang on, duh, guess I have to install new version on page one.

Edit:

workin' great

Thanks Dev

Did one Smugmug gallery page and only took about 30 seconds to complete.

Ryan Armbrust · May 5, 2009

Awesome!
Thanks for all your hard work with this. Love the new tool!

Biggles · May 7, 2009

BZT new code??
HI thereGuys

I am sure I am being particularly thick, but where i sthe new code so I can get it in my drop down menu?

Thanks now

David

devbobo · May 7, 2009

Biggles wrote:

HI thereGuys

I am sure I am being particularly thick, but where i sthe new code so I can get it in my drop down menu?

Thanks now

David

On the wiki, just replace the JS section.

Biggles · May 7, 2009

devbobo wrote:

On the wiki, just replace the JS section.

Thank you>

tonyd · June 9, 2009

I just tried v3.4 since v3.3 seemed to stop working. It seems that the thumbnail setting in the gallery settings must be set to original (not square) for this to work ok (in some cases).

I had this set to square, then tried to use bulk zoom and the thumbnails looked as if they were all compressed either vertically or horizontally. You should see what I mean in this screen shot:

So I was just wondering if this is a bug, or if it is required to change the gallery thumbnail setting (under look and feel) to original before using this tool.

brandofamily · September 19, 2009

devbobo wrote:

On the wiki, just replace the JS section.

Bulk zoom seems to have stopped working again...
It's says loading, but the crop windows never load...

HELP!!!!

brandofamily · September 19, 2009

brandofamily wrote:

Bulk zoom seems to have stopped working again...
It's says loading, but the crop windows never load...
HELP!!!!

Anyone take notice of this other than me?

Allen · September 20, 2009

brandofamily wrote:

Anyone take notice of this other than me?

BZT loaded here, all crop windows showed, checked 1x1 and they switched to
1x1. I didn't go any farther because all thumbs already set.

Only thing I've noticed is getting the "picking a crop drop" to work tales quite a few clicks.

brandofamily · September 20, 2009

Allen wrote:

BZT loaded here, all crop windows showed, checked 1x1 and they switched to
1x1. I didn't go any farther because all thumbs already set.

Only thing I've noticed is getting the "picking a crop drop" to work tales quite a few clicks.

Maybe the stretch slideshow code conflicts? That's the only new JS I've added in a while... I'll test that...

brandofamily · September 20, 2009

Allen wrote:

BZT loaded here, all crop windows showed, checked 1x1 and they switched to
1x1. I didn't go any farther because all thumbs already set.

Only thing I've noticed is getting the "picking a crop drop" to work tales quite a few clicks.

Which viewing style were you in? It seems to be OK in SM view, but not all thumbs

Allen · September 20, 2009

brandofamily wrote:

Which viewing style were you in? It seems to be OK in SM view, but not all thumbs

Smugmug style

I usually blow my browser full screen so there are more thumbs to work with.
Then use two or three tabs for different pages BZT'in.
Too much trouble to switch to all thumbs every time.

brandofamily · September 20, 2009

Allen wrote:

Smugmug style

I usually blow my browser full screen so there are more thumbs to work with.
Then use two or three tabs for different pages BZT'in.
Too much trouble to switch to all thumbs every time.

Can you do a test in all thumbs for me to see if BTZ works in all thumbs for you?

Allen · September 21, 2009

brandofamily wrote:

Can you do a test in all thumbs for me to see if BTZ works in all thumbs for you?

Nope, doesn't work in all thumbs.

mcschmidt_00 · October 23, 2009

This has all of a sudden stopped working for me. Anyone else having the same issue?

I'm appear to be getting a js error:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)
Timestamp: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:31:08 UTC

Message: Object expected
Line: 646
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://www.schmidtfamilygallery.com/include/js/user_schmidtfamilygallery-20090825220223.js

iklimon · October 24, 2009

BulkZoom Thumbnail has also stopped working for me.

mcschmidt_00 wrote:

This has all of a sudden stopped working for me. Anyone else having the same issue?

I'm appear to be getting a js error:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)
Timestamp: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:31:08 UTC

Message: Object expected
Line: 646
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://www.schmidtfamilygallery.com/include/js/user_schmidtfamilygallery-20090825220223.js

iklimon · October 24, 2009

iklimon wrote:

BulkZoom Thumbnail has also stopped working for me.

Is there anyone else that can test this so I can figure out if this is me or not?

Did SM recently make a change?

ian

Andy · October 24, 2009

iklimon wrote:

Did SM recently make a change?

We always are updating. You'll want to subscribe to our Release Notes blog, so that you don't miss a single update from SmugMug

http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/ at the bottom, there's a link for Entries (RSS) - put that in your favorite feed reader.

I'll ask Devbobo to look at BZT hack.

brandofamily · October 24, 2009

Andy wrote:

We always are updating. You'll want to subscribe to our Release Notes blog, so that you don't miss a single update from SmugMug http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/ at the bottom, there's a link for Entries (RSS) - put that in your favorite feed reader.

I'll ask Devbobo to look at BZT hack.

BZT stopped working in all but Smugmug style a while back... still seems to work in SM style.... as stated above....

iklimon · October 28, 2009

brandofamily wrote:

BZT stopped working in all but Smugmug style a while back... still seems to work in SM style.... as stated above....

Mine worked until last week. I don't know if I use SmugMug style or not.

But it definitely worked until last week. Now...

One would think that something that could be that easily hacked could be put in as a real feature by the code wizards...

mcschmidt_00 · October 28, 2009

iklimon wrote:

Mine worked until last week. I don't know if I use SmugMug style or not.

But it definitely worked until last week. Now...

One would think that something that could be that easily hacked could be put in as a real feature by the code wizards...

+1 to making this a real feature, not a hack. If you use square thumbnails, modifying them is kind of an important thing to be able to do easily and quickly.

There is something that looks like it should be for this purpose:

Tools > Many Photos > More > Adjust Thumbnails.

But I can't for the life of me figure out what this feature does. It goes off and says "We're working on your thumbnails" .. but it doesn't seem to make any adjustments.

afarber · October 29, 2009

This is one of my biggest frustrations with Smugmug right now. They implement, and even encourage, the use of square thumbs for a long time now, but ever since square thumbs started, there has never been an easy and quick way to modify them.

Square thumbs need adjusting in over half of my portrait photos and probably a third of my landscape images. The recent "upgrade" to the thumbnail crop tool is a joke. When I upload a gallery of hundreds of images, it would take hours to do it with the official tool. Using the BZT hack has certainly helped, but it's quirky and doesn't always work.

This is something that really must be addressed by the SM team.

brandofamily · November 7, 2009

Andy wrote:

I'll ask Devbobo to look at BZT hack.

I know Dev is probably locked in the SM dungeon being flogged as he develops new code, but do you think you'll allow him some light and a moment to look at this hack anytime soon?

cry

brandofamily · November 16, 2009

bump

Allen · November 16, 2009

Really need this, it's a pain changing one at a time.

smughack: bulk zoom thumbnail (super deluxe version)

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