Hi there,

I have started with my own skin in order to integrate an existing web-site template. I am not sure if it is a problem with my skin, but jAlbum no longer creates folder thumbnails. When I switch to another skin (e.g. Tiger) then they are created).

What possible setting am I overlooking that could affect the folder thumbnail not to get generated anymore?

Thanks,
Roland

It should also be pointed out that the jAlbum core doesn't generate anything called, for example, folderthumb.jpg. That's something that Laza's skins do on their own, for their own reasons (for example, to create a thumbnail image with different image bounds from the other thumbnails). jAlbum just generates a thumbnail for each image, like thumbs/mydog.jpg.

If the user has not chosen to have one of the images in a folder used as the folder thumbnail, then an iconPath variable exists, and is used to represent the folder. If he has chosen an image to use for the folder, then thumbPath points to it.

Take a look at the index.htt template in the Minimal skin, lines 39-44. If the object is an image, thumbPath points to its thumbnail. If the object is a folder, thumbPath points to the thumbnail of the image within that folder that's been chosen to represent the folder.

It's as good a way as any, but you will need to test if the current object is a folder, if not presumably you still want the normal thumbnail image.

When trying to find a variable, or looking how to arrive at a required answer, I always drop in a 'current' statement i.e. ${current}
That will list all of the related variable attributes.

Thanks again for your replies. I got everything to work and am pretty happy with my new skin. I wanted to keep using jAlbum because it makes things so easy but I also wanted to have a different appearance.