README document for mkgallery script
- Copyright (c) 2006 Eugene G. Crosser
+ Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Eugene G. Crosser
This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
mkgallery.pl traverses directory tree starting from current directory
downwards, and in each directory creates an index.html file with the
list of subdirectories and the list of image files in the directory.
-Fielsystem objects starting with '.' are not processed. For every
+Filesystem objects starting with '.' are not processed. For every
directory, a file ".title" is checked, and created if absent, with the
-title for this album. Two subdirectories are created with scaled down
-versions of the images: ".640" and ".160", and a direcotory named ".html"
-containging slideshow pages (and info pages for non-javascript clients).
+title for this album. Subdirectories are created with scaled down
+versions of the images, and a directory named ".html" containging
+slideshow pages (and info pages for non-javascript clients).
-For the thing to work, you must create a subdirectory named ".include"
+For the thing to work, you must create a subdirectory named ".gallery2"
at the root of your image gallery, or somewhere upstairs in the
-document tree, and put there files from the subdirectory "include"
+document tree, and put there the files from the "include" subdirectory
of this distribution. Then, chdir to the root of your gallery and run
"mkgallery.pl" script. First time, you will be asked to enter titles
for all subdirectories ("Albums"); if you wish to recreate the titles,
command-line options:
--help: print help message and exit
- --incpath: do not try to find .include diretory upstream, use
+ --incpath: do not try to find .gallery2 diretory upstream, use
specified path (absolute or relavive). Use with causion.
--debug: print a lot of debugging info to stdout as you run
--asktitle: ask to edit album titles even if there are ".title" files
files are absent. Use partial directory names as titles.
The only way to specify titles for individual pictures is to write
-comments into the image files.
+comments into the image files (in UTF-8 encoding).
"mkindex.pl" is a simple script that is completely unrelated to the
gallery (theoretically). If your tree starts with YYYY/DD (four
Image::Info
Image::Magick (optional. If not present, will run djeg|pnmscale|cjpeg pipe)
Term::ReadLine
+XML::RSS (optional. If not present, will refuse to make RSS feed)
Homepage:
http://www.average.org/mkgallery/
TODO:
+- support gestures. Make the interface more mobile-friendly
+- make jumping to adjacent albums possible (via parameter to upper index.html)
- make index.html depend of .title and directory timestamps
-- any ideas?
+- rebuild htmls in .html when directory timestamp changes (images added)
+- try to make showwin "Extending: Element" and get rid of domelement()
+ dummy getter and getCoordinates() replacement function (?)
Eugene Crosser <crosser at average dot org>