Thanks for the positive feedback!

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:59 PM, elguavas <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> ok. thanks for the quick responses in both cases stephen. ;)  i have a
> feeling we may both be on an antipodean clock. :) with most projects i'm
> used to getting replies my next day, after north american / european day
> while i'm sleeping.
>
> interesting link.
>
> on mezz in general i should say i think it's great work!  i was looking to
> implement a site in django (i am advanced in python, but only basic in
> django so far) when i stumbled across mezzanine. looks to me like you've
> got a lot of the basics covered so i don't have to, while still letting me
> add custom django stuff easily as need. this seems like a python web
> development "sweet spot" to me.
>
> cheers,
> e.
>
> On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 12:48:22 PM UTC+10, Stephen McDonald wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>>>>
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