Gallery widget black - no "slideshow" preview

In iWeb, when I drag the gallery from the media menu, there's only a black screen. If I click on the little arrow in the bottom right-hand corner, it takes me to the MobileMe gallery. But the box itself is black, with no slideshow preview, and nothing happens when I click on it.

You can't change the look of the thumbnail in the embedded gallery widget. You can certainly try to use you're own HTML widget but the gallery effect will not be the same since it will only be in full-screen mode once the user taps on the widget image as opposed to having the ability to swipe through the widget right in the book. If that's fine with you, I recommend two sources: Get a widget using JS/HTML code from a place like Code Canyon, or if you don't want to mess with coding, you can use bookry or bookwiddgets.

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Here's a link to Apple feedback page for iBA. Feel free to hammer it with your suggestions.
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2) How do I set each widget window to “fit” all the preview thumbs inside its dimensions, rather than arbitrarily hacking off the tops and bottoms of all the vertically-oriented images, which for many shots just looks arbitrary, amateurish, and really ugly?
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Toronto

Old Toad wrote:
John:
#1 - are you referring to the "skimming" of photos as you move the cursor over the gallery? That's javascript controlled I believe and would require knowledge of javascript and widgets. You might ask Cyclosaurer as he's the resident expert on javascript and widgets.
No, no, no -- I'm fine with the skimming, in fact I like that feature. I'm talking about the fact that EACH of the six different MobileMe Gallery widgets, from the moment I dragged each one onto the iWeb page I was creating and selected which already-published Gallery it should link to, began showing each of the different images contained in that Gallery/Album, changing to the next one every second or two. This happened completely on its own, I did not (at least not intentionally) select or activate anything, and it happens in ALL the widget windows, even though the mouse is not skimming over ANY of them.
It continues (again, in every widget window, and completely on its own) when I save the page, it continues when I publish the page, it continues when I visit the page online. The only thing which does stop it -- temporarily -- is when I do mouse over a particular widget window and manually skim. But the moment I stop skimming, this "automatic slideshow preview" (I don't know what else to call it) kicks back in.
Is this normal? Or is this some weird aberration peculiar to my system?
The added annoyance is that when you click on one of the widgets, instead of going to that Gallery in its full album view, it goes to a single frame view of whichever image happened to be being displayed at the time you clicked, requiring the user to then click on the "Back to Album" button in the upper left to get their bearings. Which again makes me wonder -- is this normal?
#2 - Again, you're referring to the skimming, right? Since it's a square shape the photos would have to be square to be able to be scaled exactly. Since it's only a "skim" of what's inside being perfectly scaled isn't that necessary.
It certainly wouldn't be as annoying if I could switch off this "automatic slideshow preview" behaviour as described above. (Though even for the skim function, I still think it would make sense to have the option to have the images auto scale to fit completely within the widget window -- which is not square, by the way -- or at least on my system appears to only be sizeable as a horizontal rectangle, to a maximum size of 320x260 pixels. This orientation works fine for previewing horizontally-oriented images, but looks butt-ugly when completely decapitating various groups of people in vertically-aligned shots, of which I happen to have many.)
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#3 - it still exists. If you don't want it to be displayed in your overall MMe gallery with the rest of the individual galleries Apple isn't letting it be published alone.
Just to make sure we're talking about the same bug, in an ideal world I DON'T want these particular Gallery/Albums to be displayed as part of my overall MMe Gallery page, but I DO want them to be the designated content of the MMe Gallery WIDGETS which I'm including on the specific iWeb page in question. And if this bug still has not been fixed, then it appears I and many others are still S.O.L. for what should be a simple and obvious bit of formatting.
Send your 2¢ worth to apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html. We're just users like yourself and can't do anything about it.
Rest assured I will. What's one more page after the hundreds I've already sent them?
I'm just a bit stunned that this particular bug hasn't been dealt with already. And it only reinforces my firm belief (see the thread at
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1996786&tstart=0)
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2.) Layout your widgets in landscape, edit content in portrait and of course test in both. In those cases where you need a bit more control, bifurcate.
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Message was edited by: coocooforcocoapuffs

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Is there a trick to getting a lightbox gallery inside of each Spry Tabbed Panels 2 tab?
Is there a way to scale down the enlarged photos 50% with css for iPhone retina display (as can be done with Spry Content Slideshow)?
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1, There is no trick, just make sure that each unique constructor is within each each tab.
2 and 3 The widget is third party and as such you will need to obtain the information elsewhere like here http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/
Gramps
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citywest wrote:
...it just reaches a set size (small) and stops.
I think that's just the way it works — it's only meant to be a thumbnail. Besides, the miniature slideshow images in the thumbnail would probably appear very pixelated if enlarged too much. This _video tutorial_ also shows only a limited re-sizing capability.
If you want to actually embed an album into a page, see _this article_. Note: In their code, change the "mac.com" to "me.com". And click on the "comments" link in that article for more info.

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