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. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. > -- 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.
