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1. animesubs
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hi, do you speak German? No matter, I try it in English.

   The Slidshow widget displays the pictures always in a wrong way. I set the Option to "Stretch image: false" But the wdget seems to use "Stretch image:true". It doesn't matter if I try another Option, the Slideshow widget always use "Stretch image:true".

   Please, can you help me to fix my display problem. It looks so horrible if the Images are not displayed with its real resolution (proportion).

   I thoght an update will fix that problem, but I am wayting for 3-4 updates now, and I have still that resolution problem.

2. Alex Rabe
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Could you give me a link as example?

3. pazderajr
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   i have the same problem with widget. nextgen gallery and nextgen slideshow widget both made the picture wrong stretch. check this on http://www.judatenis.com
   thx

4. Alex Rabe
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   These are the description for the slideshow option "overstretch"

   overstretch (false): Sets how to stretch images/movies to make them fit the display. The default stretches to fit the display. Set this to true to stretch them proportionally to fill the display, fit to stretch them disproportionally and none to keep original dimensions.

5. pazderajr
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   thx alex, but i dont get it ...
   is it possible to describe me in which menu what is necessary to set up to have slideshow WIDGET in good format. normal slideshow is ok.

   thank you so much

6. wpelvis
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi,
   my images are bigger than the slideshow so i want them to 'shrink' so they can be seen inside the slideshow, but also to stay in proportion.

   What would the option be for that?

   thanks
   elvis

7. Alex Rabe
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Set this to true to stretch them proportionally to fill the display

8. Najaf
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have the same problem.
   Set "true" in "option-slideshow" would work for slideshow in content area, but not work in widget area.
   Why?

9. Najaf
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Just a screen snapshoot: http://www.zhouyoutianxia.com/zbbs/ShowPost.asp?ThreadID=14

   So you can see that with the same settings of "overstretch:false", the picture in widget and the content are really DIFFERENT.

   How to fix the problem? Sorry i am just testing my web, not published yet.

10. NickOg
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I have just taken the latest NextGen upgrade and I can't get slide show to work any more. The gallery does but not the slide show. Puts up a blank black window.

    http://www.bonzerplus.org.au

    any ideas/suggestions or fixes very gratefully received!

    Regards

    Nick

11. enrico_34
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Same problem here like NickOg... and plus I get a 500 error on the edit area of an article, when i try to click to NextGen.desc button to insert a gallery... has something change on the last update?

    Thanks.

12. NOgbourne
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    re
    

    I have just taken the latest NextGen upgrade and I can't get slide show to work any more. The gallery does but not the slide show. Puts up a blank black window.

    I fixed it by uninstalling NextGen, deleting the plug-in directory, re-installing and importing the images from the original folder.

    Not sure why the problem occurred on each browser I tried but, oddly,not on a copy of the site to a new domain.

    Regards

    Nick

    a top hole plug-in!

13. NOgbourne
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Looks like I have two logins - the problem was posted as NickOg - will clean up.

14. enrico_34
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I CANNOT delete the gallery and install it again. It's not the way how it should be. There must be a fix to this...

15. NOgbourne
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Of course - enrico. For me, having just started, it was a quick work round. But given uninstall doesn't remove the photo directory and there is a handy import control, it at least presented a work round that got me up and running again.

    Yes, a fix is required....

16. enrico_34
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    The problem is the author released itas an update for the 2.6 version. TOday I upgraded to the WP 2.6, and it all went fluent...except for nggallery: remained the same even after this! Now this is really strange, can't figure out where and what to change in the code.

    Hel needed!

17. NOgbourne
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Same for me - upgraded to 2.6, applied nextgen patch but still no slide show. I at least my test site and haven't yet tried the (unsatisfactory) fix I used before

18. bee dudler
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Hi NOgbourne,
    if your relating to http://www.bonzerplus.org.au the slideshow there is up and running now.
    cache issues?

    best regards
    bee

19. NOgbourne
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Hi Bee

    No, not bonzerplus this time - my test version (not public) but a fair point. I have left bonzerplus at .97 NextGen 2.5 WordPress for the moment. Just tried clearing temoprary files and cookies with no improvement. Tried it on three broowsers. Just to be sure I tried it on a machine/browser that I hadn't used before and again no improvement. The gallery content is still there OK.

    Thanks for the suggestion though.

    regards
    Nick

20. winksmile
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    It doesn't look like the original issue has been resolved here and i have the same problem. Here is my website: http://www.handmadebyamy.com

    Some of the images in the widget slideshow seem to get resized disproportionately (some of my images are already square so those look okay as they're not being resized). I have played with many settings and can't seem to get my widget slideshow looking right. Did anyone figure out the fix to this?

    Also, an unrelated problem (well, more of a preference I guess!)... I want to use the imagebrowser on certain pages, however I do not like that the page refreshes each time you click next. Is there a way to get the page to "anchor" in place and only refresh the image? That would be much more user friendly.

    Thank you!

21. winksmile
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Okay, so I feel the need to reply to myself here. :-) I've been playing with ngg and found the flash plugins by Airtight Interactive that work with it. The simpleviewer (http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/) does exactly what I was hoping for! Hopefully it enlightens someone else too.

22. horrorshow
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    winksmile -
    Thanks for that tip. I've actually given up on ngg, and I am using the simpleviewer in a separate directory within wordpress mu. Blog members can't use it, but it's a sitewide photo gallery that I maintain anyway, so it works for me.

    Dear NextGen developer, it's a great plugin, but it still has some ways to go.. It just doesn't work the way that you'd expect it to work. I don't know if they are bugs or the user interface is counter- intuitive, but it is really frustrating to use.

23. dogdayfear
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I dont understand: I set the Stretch image option to "none". And I get two results:

    Images are resized to fit: in this slideshow

    Images are not resized: in this other slideshow

    Any ideas, please?.

    Thanks in advance

24. bitkahuna
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    i believe the stretch/fit non-functioning to occur when the image FILES are too big for the flash piece to handle in memory. i found resizing the files (resolution and file size) to fix the problems and now it all works for me.
    hope that helps someone.

25. lesfreeman
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I can confirm what bitkahuna is saying about image size. NGG does NOT automatically resize images on upload. You have to do this manually:

    After you upload them, click the checkbox next to new images on their gallery page, then pick the "Resize Images" bulk editing option, and click ok.

    NGG will now resize the images down to the size you specified in Gallery >> Options >> Images

    Stretching of images in the player should work now.

    Also, here is a clear description of the stretching options:

    True: Makes images fill the player area by "overstretching" them, IE, making their smallest dimension fit the player size (maintains aspect ratio).

    False: Makes images fit inside the player area. IE, their largest dimension is the same size as the player (maintains aspect ratio).

    Fit: Stretches images to fit the inside of the player (DOES NOT maintain aspect ratio).

    None: Does not resize image at all. Appears to center the image in the player and crops whatever is too big (maintains aspect ratio)

26. MtnBikerSoCal
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Thanks lesfreeman. I just put a new WordPress/NextGen install and thumbnails were fitted to fill the square thumbnail.

    You may need to add a step after resizing images: resize thumbnails (Or maybe this is all I needed to do to get full image thumbnails).

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