On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:03 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > hmm, thanks stephen, you're right. that link shows the file / image > browser working exactly as i expected it should. weird thing is i'm > posisitve i have pillow installed in the virtualenv i'm using for mezz > development... i'll have to try to work out what's gong on there. >
It can definitely be fiddly. For example on debian based servers you might not have installed the "libjpeg-dev" package via apt. > > in terms of wanting to build on what's there to create and improved > gallery system, is there a recommended way of piggybacking on the existing > gallery functionality, and just adding features while allowing the built in > gallery stuff to be updated normally? or am i needing to fork the existing > gallery stuff to create a version with more features? > This thread might give you some background on where customization is headed: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mezzanine-users/KNqHqs2lSeU Although it's terribly hard to be more specific than that without more specific questions. > > thanks, > e. > > > On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:48:59 AM UTC+10, Stephen McDonald wrote: > >> You'll probably find you don't have PIL or Pillow libraries correctly >> installed. >> >> Take a look at the media library on the demo site: http://mezzanine.jupo. >> org/en/admin/media-library/browse/ (user/pass: demo/demo) - you'll find >> that with either PIL or Pillow installed, wherever images are displayed, >> they'll be resized. >> >> >> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:44 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> hi there, >>> >>> if i upload large images to my mezz site the filer /gallery image >>> browser is pretty useless for changing any properties or even selecting >>> images because it shows the images at full size. >>> >>> really you should be able to have a scaled down version of the image >>> there to retain useability. >>> >>> questions: >>> >>> is there any plan for simple improvements (with vast usability impact) >>> to this part of mezz? >>> >>> in the meantime can someone give me a pointer to where in mezz to apply >>> my own changes to this? >>> >>> if this stays the way it is i guess i'll be forced to write my own >>> custom uploaded image handling from scratch, which seems a shame since >>> what's there by default is already part of the way to being useful for me. >>> >>> cheers, >>> e. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Stephen McDonald >> http://jupo.org >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Mezzanine Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Stephen McDonald http://jupo.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
