Anego CMS Modules - Report 6

Due to the holidays this report has been slightly delayed ;-)
However, I'm happy to report that the gallery module is now mostly finished and only a number of smaller features are missing. Since the last report I've completed:
- Store/Restore image size and crop area
- All the server side code
- Default sizes from which the user can select from. This includes default sizes for the original image, the preview image and the crop area.
- Pictures can be deleted.
- There's now default sizes for the original and preview image which is a per-gallery setting.
- Drag&Drop image reordering is finally working too. I've had difficulties getting jQuery UI Sortable to work, the bug being wrong event bubbling.
- Added a very simple pagination for the blog (not related to the gallery module)
- A ton of bug fixing

The gallery module is now also being tested and running the gallery on my wife's website saraty.com. I was happy to hear that she is very pleased with the simplicity of setting up a gallery. Below is a screenshot of an image being edited.

Until the end of January the only things left to do are:
- There is one bug left to fix with image reordering
- Classic style file upload with file selection
- If there is time left, there could be some per-gallery-batch-image-resize so one could easily change all the preview and original image sizes.
- Write documentation.

Anego CMS Modules - Report 5

In the last 2 Weeks I've been busy implementing a small image editor that allows the user to crop and resize images for the gallery. It turned out to be unexpectedly much work to create a 3-in-1 Image resizer, Cropper and Dragging tool that has some usability. Hence, I wasn't able to write the server code for it yet, which is however the easiest part. For the next report there's a number of functionalities that I have to build:

• Store and restore the image size and cropped area so a user doesn't need to select it from anew if he wanted the picture just a bit bigger.
• Server code for cropping and resizing
• Allow image editing of both thumbnail and full size picture. For this I have already refactored the image editing code into a jquery plugin for it to be modular.

For this project I will probably drop my plans for improving the blog and focus entirely on the gallery. I realize it's a better choice to have a feature-complete, versatile gallery module, rather than having 2 not very finished modules.

Anego CMS Modules - Report 4

Since last update I've added a settings dialog for each image so users can change their properties such as description and thumbnail. This information is also saved and stored in database now.

Also I've found a great image cropping tool named Jcrop which I probably will be implementing until next time. I'm also considering to add a thumbnail resize feature like in this demo.

And finally I've been fixing a few bugs in the dialog code.

Anego CMS Modules - Report 3

In this 2 weeks I've had to do some major refactoring of Anegos dialog code so that it allows multiple dialogs. This will be needed so e.g. one can open a gallery settings dialog while being in the edit mode.

In the process I had to touch a lot of code, so I also cleaned up much of the code style. I've also found a number of bugs that I fixed.

The progress on the Gallery itself though hasn't gone much further. I've made only small additions and until the last day I spent a lot of time getting jQuery UI Sortable working on the images so one can Drag&Drop them but I failed. There must be something bugged with that widget.