Simple NextGEN SimpleViewer

07Mar08

Based on some request I added two new flash scripts to NextGEN Gallery. The fantastic Tiltviewer & Simpleviewer from Airtight Interactive can now easily added to your post or page.

See some example here : http://nextgen.boelinger.com/simpleviewer/

Demo Tiltviewer

If you like it, then download this addon here :

Download NextGEN SimpleViewer
WordPress plugin

(This plugin isn’t finished at all, I maybe add more comfortable options later)

UPDATE : I’m currently not able to work at this addon, if some is interested to update or maintain it, give me a note or pick up the script and write your own plugin. I will help with any questions…

36 Responses to “Simple NextGEN SimpleViewer”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 gilbert FRANCE Posted March 8th, 2008 - 3:59 am

    Hi Alex
    Very nice to watch your Tiltviewer and simpleviewer demos. So … I was really impatient to install NextGen Simpleviewer pluggins !!! ;o))
    Unfortunately it does not work !!! :o((
    However I installed and activated Nextgen gallery then NextGEN SimpleViewer …
    In the installation notice, you wrote to download Tiltviewer and simpleviewer. But where do I have to upload these packages ? Within NextGen Simpleviewer directory ?
    Where do I have to put the swf files ??

    Thanks for your nice help

    Gilbert

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 gilbert FRANCE Posted March 8th, 2008 - 11:33 am

    OK !!! Found the problem !!!! Don’t write spaces for sizes !!!! ;-))

    I wrongly wrote
    “[tiltviewer=3, 640, 480,*Cu Lao Ong Ho, l’ile au Tigre*]”

    rather than

    [tiltviewer=3,640,480,*Cu Lao Ong Ho, l’ile au Tigre*]

    Tiltviewer is simply wonderful !!!

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 alex.rabe GERMANY Posted March 8th, 2008 - 1:08 pm

    Oh,yes.. I should optimize readme & the code

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 impropio Posted March 8th, 2008 - 7:03 pm

    Gracias, este plugin es lo maximo! :-)

  5. Gravatar Icon 5 Tommy GERMANY Posted March 8th, 2008 - 7:16 pm

    Very cool! Looks nice!
    Have a look at http://www.zoomer.de –> “Ansichtssache”.
    What do you say to it? Perhaps is applicable as new function?

  6. Gravatar Icon 6 Amis LATVIA Posted March 8th, 2008 - 8:10 pm

    :( how i can put this simpleviewer to work on full screen like demo? Last 2 hours i spend to figure that out, and i cant. Mabey you can help me?

  7. Gravatar Icon 7 cecile FRANCE Posted March 8th, 2008 - 8:49 pm

    It simply looks amazing on your blogs !

    Tommy –> I don’t speak a word of German but I love the way you integrated your videoplayer and of course the picture gallery is great.

    Which player did you use for the video ?

  8. Gravatar Icon 8 cecile FRANCE Posted March 8th, 2008 - 9:30 pm

    BY THE WAY : does it work with Autoviewer the same way ? I bet so right ?

  9. Gravatar Icon 9 Rubem Posted March 8th, 2008 - 11:28 pm

    It works!!!

    Very Cool!

    Is there a way to use the album ID ?

    Thank You!

  10. Gravatar Icon 10 Tommy GERMANY Posted March 9th, 2008 - 11:50 am

    Hi Cecile
    http://www.zoomer.de is not my own website.
    It should be an example for Alex. Perhaps he still integrates the picture gallery in NextGen.

  11. Gravatar Icon 11 gilbert FRANCE Posted March 9th, 2008 - 12:47 pm

    Hi Alex

    Thanks again for your very nice work !!! Tiltviewer is simply cooool ! I like it !!!
    But as AMIS, even if I directly changed values in my MySql database, I am not able to display full mode. Apparently, even if I change maxImageHeight, the window seems to be blocked around 400 (not sure of the value !!!)

    Values changed :
    1. table _options - option name “ngg_sv_options” - value “maxImageWidth” set to 1024 and “maxImageHeight” set to 768
    2. table _options - option name “maxJPGSize” set to 1024

    Apparently, maxImageWidth/maxImageHeight corresponds to the window size and maxJPGSize to maximum size of a single picture. Am I right ?

    Is there a limitation in the flash ?

    Help would be fully appreciated ! :o))

    PS : if U need help for a french documentation translation, I could help …

  12. Gravatar Icon 12 alex.rabe GERMANY Posted March 9th, 2008 - 3:30 pm

    @Gilbert
    You can change the settings in the nggsimpleviewer.php file (when you activate this plugin they will be saved to the database).

    The fullscreen page requires a additionla HTML page, currently I have no time to work at this addon. Enjoy it as it is…

  13. Gravatar Icon 13 Stanislav Posted March 9th, 2008 - 4:14 pm

    Hello !
    I have made everithing according to the instructions in readme file, everithing is ok, but SimpleViewer do not work on my site. Tag [gallery=4] - is work properly in the posts, but tag [tiltviewer=4, 1000, 716, *text or link*] displayed as a text inside the post. I dont know what to do…

  14. Gravatar Icon 14 alex.rabe GERMANY Posted March 9th, 2008 - 4:27 pm

    Do not use any spaces…

  15. Gravatar Icon 15 Oliver Posted March 10th, 2008 - 6:37 pm

    Nice plugin, got it up and running on my site now :)
    One thing: You mixed up rows and columns in your descriptions in your nggsimpleviewer.php

  16. Gravatar Icon 16 Joerg GERMANY Posted March 10th, 2008 - 6:47 pm

    Hello Alex,

    Did I understand it in the right way that the thickbox window had a max. height of approx. 350 pixel (see gilberts comment above)? I change the nggsimpleviewer.php up to the max. width (1024) of my pictures but nothing happened.

    Did I do anything wrong?

  17. Gravatar Icon 17 gilbert Posted March 10th, 2008 - 8:07 pm

    You would like to have a tiltviewer full window ???
    Ok !!!! Follow me —>

    1st STEP : setup the plugin
    1. Deactivate nggsimpleviewer pluggin
    2. in nggsimpleviewer.php - simpleviewer section, set ‘enableRightClickOpen’ to true
    3. in nggsimpleviewer.php - tiltviewer section, do not forget to
    localize ‘langGoFull’, ‘langExitFull’ and ‘langAbout’. It will appear in the right-click box !!!
    4. Activate nggsimpleviewer pluggin

    2nd STEP : use the tiltviewer in ur post/page
    ONLY USE INLINE METHOD ‘[tiltviewer=gallery number,window width,window heigth]’
    In ur post, write a code as
    ==========================
    ‘Clic droit puis “Affichage Plein Ecran” pour un écran GEANT !!!
    “Echap” pour revenir à l’affichage normal …
    [tiltviewer=3,510,600]’
    ==========================

    DO NOT USE THICKBOX METHOD as
    ‘[tiltviewer=gallery number,window width,window heigth,*TEXT*]’
    or
    ‘[tiltviewer=gallery number,window width,window heigth,**]’
    otherwise your pictures will be displayed in a fixed height window …

    3rd STEP : USER PROCEDURE
    the user just have to right-click the tiltviewer then choose “full display” and magic window appears
    just press “Esc” for going back to normal view !!!

    That’s all folks !!!

    PS : did not found how to directly go in full mode without right-click OR without tiltviewer pro version so … if someone does …

  18. Gravatar Icon 18 tom314 Posted March 11th, 2008 - 12:07 pm

    Hi Alex, this is a magnificent plugin.
    I have another (for you, simple, i guess) question:

    I’m working on a template page, where the nextgen-gallery is passed via a custom field (key: Gallery, value: Name)
    so that i can query that in the template page and output this as I wish..

    $galleryCV = get_post_custom_values(”Gallery”);
    $galleryID = $wpdb->get_var(”SELECT gid FROM $wpdb->nggallery WHERE name = ‘$galleryCV[0]’ “);
    $gallerytitle = $wpdb->get_var(”SELECT title FROM $wpdb->nggallery WHERE name = ‘$galleryCV[0]’ “);

    now my question is, what piece of code can I use to display the simpleviewer-swf, just passing it the gallery-ID. I know php well enough to put this decent in my template page, but not well enough to derive it from your plugin-code.

    if there’s anybody else who knows how to do this.. you might answer this one as well.

  19. Gravatar Icon 19 tom314 Posted March 11th, 2008 - 2:02 pm

    I found it !

    for those interested…

    I put the code for the template-page (note: customized for my project) in a textfile:

    http://www.imagomedia.be/temp/NG_SV_template/projectpage2.txt

    you can easily extract the bits you need.
    the lines in the header-include, the php-bit in the projectpage-div, and of course the code-snippet inside the projectimg-div.

    the css-styles are on the bottom of the file

  20. Gravatar Icon 20 Will UNITED STATES Posted March 11th, 2008 - 7:23 pm

    When I try to install it I get this error…

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare nggallery_init() (previously declared in /home/www/gospel903/wp-content/plugins/nggallery/nggallery.php:92) in /home/www/gospel903/wp-content/plugins/nggallery/nggallery.php on line 90

    What can I do to fix it?

  21. Gravatar Icon 21 Peter Velichkov Posted March 11th, 2008 - 9:45 pm

    You should add option about adding swfobject (or check if it is already loaded).

    Some other suggestion when i use single image in same size as thumbnails use thumbs instead of generating every image.

  22. Gravatar Icon 22 UserNotFound UNITED STATES Posted March 12th, 2008 - 6:35 am

    The tiltviewer seems to come up fine, it shows the animation of the tiles moving into place, and then they disapear quickly. My pictures are never shown. Has anyone run into this problem?

    I am using the latest versions of everything, and have tried several different galleries of 4 to 10 picures, nothing ever shows up.

  23. Gravatar Icon 23 The Daily Yeah UNITED STATES Posted March 15th, 2008 - 11:26 pm

    Hey, VERY useful plugin. I had to resort to Flickr, before it found this plugin. I use it very often, and just want to thank you for it.

    :)

  24. Gravatar Icon 24 ems Posted March 29th, 2008 - 2:47 pm

    Wow! this is great.. are you considering integrating nextgen in imageveu and menalto gallery?

  25. Gravatar Icon 25 uwe23 Posted April 1st, 2008 - 10:37 pm

    wow, the tiltviewer is absolut great!

    in german:

    der absolute hammer!

    wahnsinn, ich bin begeistert bei solchen Ideen. Heben sie sich doch erfrischend von dem gallery einerlei ab. Auch wenn mit der ngg-gallery der Hammer schon sehr hoch hängt.

    Danke, Thanks!

    uwe

  26. Gravatar Icon 26 mgroenne GERMANY Posted April 3rd, 2008 - 12:00 pm

    Bei mir wird nur der Text ausgegeben… liegt es dran, dass es mit WordPress 2.5 nicht harmoniert? Leerstellen habe ich nicht mehr drin.

    Lieben Gruß
    Marc

  27. Gravatar Icon 27 Karin Posted April 6th, 2008 - 3:31 pm

    I’ve wordpress 2.5, nextgen 9.2 and the flashviewer installed. But I get the message: sorry the flashviewer is only working with NextGen gallery - But I have nextgengallery

  28. Gravatar Icon 28 Soheil Posted April 11th, 2008 - 5:22 pm

    hi
    i put the tag in the page (my gallery id is 1):[simpleviewer:1,640,480] but it displays the tag on the page !what should i do?
    p.s:my NextGen gallery is working good, i mean [gallery=1]

  29. Gravatar Icon 29 Karin Posted April 13th, 2008 - 5:26 pm

    Just upgraded NextGen Gallery to 0.93 and the NextGen Flashviewer to 0.61 - but still have the message ‘Sorry, NextGen Flashviewer works only in combination with NextGen Gallery’. And yes, they are all activated.

  30. Gravatar Icon 30 dave Posted April 22nd, 2008 - 1:18 pm

    i cant get it to work. when i click gallery it takes me to my blog page and sorrys “sorry the page you are trying to load is unavailable” I have WP 2.2 PLEASE HELP

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