official request for enhancements

pjtraveler · 2017-10-30 23:35:54

I thought I would gather the scattered requests into a single post.

1) Add audio playback during an album. (the js is beyond me)
2)Have two sets of meta data, one for display during the slideshow, and a second when there are stills or or the slideshow is stopped. The goal is to have minimal meta data during the playing, while a rich set for when it is stopped.
3 More useful examples of phplugins (Rod's red text is a start), but there was with CE2 or CE3 a breadcrumb example that was quite useful in that context. There are working examples of css changes for useful things like gradients., but they don't appear to have occurred yet for backlight.
4) Fall back request if we don't get audio controls in BackLight, that there be some examples with js as in jplayer.
5) Confirmation that running the SQLite cleanup routine doesn't wipe out indexes for BL

rod barbee · 2017-10-31 01:04:27

3 More useful examples of phplugins (Rod's red text is a start), but there was with CE2 or CE3 a breadcrumb example that was quite useful in that context. There are working examples of css changes for useful things like gradients., but they don't appear to have occurred yet for backlight.

look in the /backlight/custom/css/ folder. The campagna.css file has an example of a linear gradient background.
It also includes a background image, but you can remove the unnecessary code

background-color: #000;
background-image: url(/galleries/03-cart-album/photos/e_njrv9hre-felipe-santana.jpg);
background-size: cover;

and here's the code I'm using on this test page: http://pangolin.barbeephoto.com/?page=main-site

body {
	background: linear-gradient(180deg, #D18555, #0F0701 100%);
	background-attachment: fixed;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	min-height: 100%;
}

Ben · 2017-10-31 06:12:57

5) Are you referring to running the vacuum command?

In my testing of running the vacuum command, indexes are untouched. However, I can not guarantee that this will be the case for you. If you're running commands on the database outside of the core application functionality then the onus is on you to test that it works as intended.
One way of doing this would be to copy the database files to your local machine, run the commands and test the outcome, either by running queries on the database, running it in your application, or both.

Another approach to shrink your database would be to run a 'dump' command, and then import into a new database file. This is also something to be done on your local machine.

rod barbee · 2017-10-31 06:40:02

Patrick, I've tried answering your direct emails but your Earthlink account keeps bouncing them. So if you need answers, your best course is to continue posting in the forum.

Ben · 2017-10-31 06:46:15

Further testing on vacuum. Each row has an internal rowid. This rowid may be changed from a vacuum command. We don't use the rowid, but instead manage our own integer primary ids. Any change to rowids should have no effect on the integrity of Backlight data. In my testing, the rowid doesn't actually change.
As above, we can not guarantee the vacuum function will work perfectly for you.

pjtraveler · 2017-10-31 07:57:22

Hum,
I check my spam folder and I haven't seen anything from any of the folks, unless it is You have won a free all expensens paid trip to...

Thank for the update on vacuum

rod barbee · 2017-10-31 08:25:57

pjtraveler wrote:

Hum,
I check my spam folder and I haven't seen anything from any of the folks, unless it is You have won a free all expensens paid trip to...
Thank for the update on vacuum

the bounce message shows as Undelivered so it probably wouldn't appear in spam. It's happened a few times. The first couple of times I just re-sent it and it seemed to go through(?).
But re-sending isn't working now.

the message states that the IP address is blocked by Earthlink.

Anyway, if you send me emails and you don't hear back, that's why.

pjtraveler · 2017-10-31 09:34:25

Wow,
You are in portland, ?

rod barbee · 2017-10-31 10:17:21

Me? No.

pjtraveler · 2017-10-31 12:31:38

Where?

rod barbee · 2017-10-31 13:43:43

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Matthew · 2017-10-31 15:49:18

I am unlikely to build audio into Backlight as a feature.

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