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I have to say I still find the documentation accompanying backlight pretty meager. You developers may find things to be "pretty intuitive" but trust me: the are not. I have worked with most gallery apps and add-on available in the past 20 years. I have been a TTG-client from the very beginning, and backlight is a good idea. But it needs more stepping stones, walkthroughs, tutorials etc. One I know how things work I may be willing to help set such things up, but for now the user interface is really under par.
In the case I am trying to find out what I paid for in the theater add-on. How can I get the examples from your site running without tutorials? I followed what little guidelines there are, uploaded everything, put it in place, but theater only shows a rectangle:
http://www.mafasca.es/galleries/el-teatro-1/ instead of the pictures I uploaded.
I would so much like to get on with this job, and not have to start all over again with any of the other Lightroom based utilities.
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The default layout is "Blank". Edit the template, scroll down to Presentation, and select a Presentation Type.
As for tutorials, I'm planning to produce more videos based on the 1.2 release.
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I tried it all, including making a new gallery, new upload, clearing all caches (in backlight too), editing the template as suggested, changing the presentation types.
But all I get is an empty yellow square.
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In the Backlight Designer create a new template
Choose Pangolin Page Template
give it a name and under "Type", choose Pangolin Page.
Design as you like.
Create a new Album template.
Name it and choose Pangolin Theater under Type.
This will put you in the Designer. Be sure to choose the Pangolin page template you created above.
Under Presentation, choose the type of presentation you want to make.
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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I can see you have the filmstrip option selected, and what's happening is there's a script breaking on your page, killing subsequent scripts. In effect, the filmstrip scripts aren't being loaded because something broke before the page load gets to them.
This is basically happening because a script to expecting to find a pallet in existence in the layout, but it isn't there, because you're going fully without navigation. Not a layout scenario we tested much, I'm afraid.
So I expect to have a fix rolling out with a small update later in the day that fixes a few other things. In the meantime, if you'd like to see this working, you can turn navigation back on, or set a two-column layout.
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I see the error on this line:
d.element !== d.element.window && (y = d.adapter.offset()[s.offsetProp]),It looks like d.adaptor.offset() is undefined. Does that mean anything to you, Matt?
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I've already provided a fix for this in the repo, Ben. The issue is simply that the script cannot locate the element on the page, because in his layout it doesn't exist. The script then cannot get an offset value from it, and dies.
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Good stuff. So an actual issue with our code, rather than our documentation.
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Documentation is fine. I'm not sure I would say it's even an issue with the code, so much as an unexpected set of conditions not accounted for within the code. His page layout is pretty fringe, with navigation being fully absent.
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