Hello from germany,
i am not sure about the thumbnail and image options in your FESlideshow. Can i force the thumbs to be square? So, they all appear in equal sizes and dimensions, no matter what the original ratio was... Is there something like a real cropping or a DIV-overlay which hides the unwanted parts?

Thanks for listening.

At the moment there is not this feature. You would need to modify the part of the script that creates the thumbnails, in the module file js/slideshowclasses.js

Modify line 180 from



to



This places the thumbnail inside a div container with the css class thumbnailDivContainer. You can then give this div element the css style

div.thumbnailDivContainer{ width: 80px; height:80px; overflow:hidden; }

obviously you change the dimensions to suit your needs.

I believe that should work.

Thanks again (7 month later )
In the meantime, did you change or add something like the modification in the previous post?
Or even options in backend parameters? Recently worked with jReviews and Gavick NewsShow Pro... both support squared and equal sized thumbnails! Which makes a big difference on the frontend. It looks very professional.

Thanks for listening.

EDIT:
Just remembered this K2 How-To article and my first comment

The thumbnails take the same aspect ratio as the large image. You can completely specify the image size to be a standard size, so the thumbnails will be of a standard aspect ratio, the same shape as the large image. It you set the large image to be square then the thumbnails will be square too. There is not an option to force square thumbs when the large image is not square. This would not make sense to me, because you would be forcing the thumbnail to cut off part of the image.

Maybe "force" is a bit harsh. I am talking of an "option" to have it cropped. I remember Joomlaworks FPSS has something like a smart cropping feature... the image center is taken into account... so, you won´t end up with an unimportant edge of the original photo.

I am 30% coder and 70% designer... might have another perspective on websites and module layouts Mixed portait/landscape images or stretched/distorted photos are a nightmare.

PS: Is the surrounding DIV "workaround" already integrated?

No. If there was a really demand for it we would look into it further but I don't feel that there is a need for it. There is no problem with mixed portrait/landscape, you can completely specify the dimensions of the large image, eg set them to 400 x 300 - then all images will be resized to those dimensions. Those with a different aspect ratio such as portrait orientation will be cropped to fit. The thumbnails are simply the large images scaled down, so they will have a uniform appearance. It all looks very neat - there is really no point in forcing them to be square.

But if you want square images all you need to do is set the large image dimensions so they are square.

Susan Boggler wrote:


I see. I guess, i will have to try it in real world All my thought depends on your demo and product descriptions. Sorry for bothering you again and again.
Scaled down: Do you mean they are the exact same images... not extra thumbnails?

It's no problem asking questions.

Yes the large image and the thumbnail that you see are the same image, just viewed at different sizes. There is really no point in loading separate thumbnails, it just means loading extra files. These days web browsers can do a very good job of scaling down images.

Hello again,
my english is limited, so i want to make my thoughts about thumbnails and options more clear... fortunately this 3rd party module shows exactly my "perfect vision" of thumbnail creation



link to original page:
www.smartaddons.com/joomla/extensions/ex...uides/323-yt-mega-ii

Since you are loading and re-sizing the bigger images, my ideas might be obsolete. (Not applicable to your modules)

As I said, the thumbnails and the original images are the same. I will think about whether this can be applied to the module.