Projector 5.0.0

Version 4.6.2

Fixed:
- Clicking an image during a slideshow, the thumbnails show up for a split second, then disappear
- After double-clicking a zoomed image, no animation is applied, only when zooming in
- The tag cloud panel might come too narrow on small screens
- The tag cloud panel's button appears on pages with no tags

Modified:
- Settings / Site / Design panel layout, Advanced / Site admin panel layout

Version 4.6.1

New:
- The Tag cloud's "Labels" button can be renamed, e.g., "Tags"

Changed:
- Improved font size and line spacing in the tag cloud

Updated:
- Dutch and French translations

New:
- Threads and Bluesky sharing (experimental)
- In the tag cloud, you can avoid collecting tags from Folders, Pages, or Web Locations. Now, by default, the skin collects tags only from folders. Previously, it collected tags from every custom page, too.
- You can use the "&" character in search in place of "and". (E.g., 'cat & dog' - mind the spaces around!)
- High-resolution hero background image for HiDpi devices. This option is now the default because the number of HiDpi devices keeps increasing.

Changed:
- Social sharing icons' design changed to round buttons
- Slide pages are only generated when the sharing button is enabled in the Lightbox, i.e., individual image sharing is possible (or Sitemap is used)
- The tag cloud now excludes single-character labels containing only a punctuation character. Letters and numbers are still allowed.
- Added Barlow font family (in pairing suggestion)

Fixed:
- Tag search with "and" did not find the images containing both keywords
- JPEG variants do not work for thumbnails
- Removed debug prints from the System Console
- Multi-word tags cannot be found when using the URL (...#label=Jim%20Beam)
- Accessing external albums added as web locations might fail

Updated:
- Dutch, French, Hungarian, and Polish translations

Changed:
- Google Maps now loads asynchronously (it did before, too, but not in the fashion Google liked :) )
(Note: Google Maps still drops a warning on the console about the deprecated Marker library, but to fix that, all users would need to generate a MapId on their Goole consoles)

Fixed:
- Error: "displayOriginals" is not defined in init.js

New:
- Possibility to control the slideshow interval and transition speed for images independently, see Edit mode -> Image data panel

Fixed:
- HTML and CSS validation errors
- When you select a language in the skin's user interface different from the main jAlbum language (in the Preferences), the dates might still show the original month and weekday names
- Broken first transition in Cube mode
- PDF files do not appear on IOS devices
- Broken link to the social share image (shareimage.jpg)
- At page load, the first video or audio file starts automatically behind the cover page, if autoplay is on

Fixed:
- Sidebar buttons might grow too wide because their labels were forced to one line, even if they had space(s)
- Regions (face tags) did not appear properly

Changed:
- Close buttons were removed from the sidebar panels. Use the buttons to toggle the panels' visibility.
- The map type selector got removed on small screens to spare map space
- Photo data window received scrollbar when too large to fit above the button
- The map button toggles the Map panel
- Using "X" instead of "Twitter"
- Better calculation for legible text colors
- jQuery updated to 3.7.1

Fixed:
- When the slideshow is combined with auto-starting videos, the slideshow gets stuck at the end of the video, and won't go forward even by clicking the next photo button
- Long menus in the sidebar might be too short or overlap with the "Start slideshow" button.
- Long menus might stretch below the button when displayed on a panel
- The Map button on the pictures does not trigger opening the related panel; it looks like nothing happens when you click it
- The first map display might be empty
- If the cover is on (not in lightbox mode), clicking a location mark on the map did not open the lightbox
- Photo data popup could not be toggled off on touch devices

New:
- Auto-start slideshow

Changed:
- Lightbox padding made narrower on small (0.5x) and medium (0.75x) screens

Fixed:
- Lots of swiping-related problems: disappearing images, slideshow not stopping on swiping, etc.
- Image disappears after swiped down and returned to the cover page
- The first image in 3D transitions opens in the opposite direction (e.g. rotates down instead of up)
- Slideshow-controlled background audio didn't work

Updated:
- Dutch, French, and Hungarian translations. Other translations are updated with Google auto-translate.

New:
- You can easily control the "Panorama" and the "Hide GPS location options" with right-click -> Projector submenu
- Swiping down the image in the lightbox brings the cover page back

Changed:
- Slideshow progress indicator style (pause button)
- The default image size is now 1600x900
- Better social sharing card layout

Fixed:
- The slideshow stuck at the last image if "Do nothing" or "Ask" was selected as "After last image" behavior
- The progress indicator is out of sync
- Too long delay before the first image change after starting the slideshow
- The last image disappears when swiped left when no navigation to the next folder or looping happens

Version 4.1.5

New:
- Latin Extended character set can be added to Google Fonts when using English as album language. Useful when you want to support all European languages.

Fixed:
- The database loading has been made less picky about missing folders
- Reloading the album after the Slideshow timing has changed, might reset to its default value (4s).
- Buttons in the lightbox might blend within a white or light caption

Changed:
- Slideshow delay is represented as milliseconds, not seconds
- Better handling of audio and video files

Version 4.1.4

Fixed:
- Initial image stays too short when starting a slideshow - hopefully, it works now :)
- The date format of the "New marker" doesn't match the album language

Fixed:
- Transition types involving 3D transformations fell back to 2D
- Initial image stays too short when starting a slideshow
- Automatic start of slideshow when using the URL with "&slideshow" parameter didn't work
- Version number has remained v4.1.1, triggering repeated skin update warnings

Fixed:
- Changing fast between skins (before the skin load is completed) might hang jAlbum

Fixed:
- No folder image in Card or Turntable mode
- The poster image lingers on after loading a video

Updated:
- Dutch and Hungarian translations

Changed:
- Better folder image preloading method
- Smoother Ken Burns transitions

Fixed:
- Broken image when sharing search result images from another folder
- Custom page content might get unscrollable
- Search result (or tag result) overlays' headers placed behind the images, so it was impossible to return to the normal view
- Thumbnails appear on the left side of the lightbox when closing search results and the album was made with "thumbnails always hidden"

Updated:
- French and Dutch translations

New:
- Use a single click to toggle the thumbnails
- Possibility to use double-click to magnify the image

Fixed:
- Sharp moves when starting or ending a swipe gesture
- After closing an overlay (e.g. search results) the original view isn't restored
- Folder names weren't encoded in the sitemap.xml file
- Ampersand (&) characters weren't always properly encoded in the sitemap.xml file

New:
- Added "Barlow" font family

Fixed:
- About and Contact custom pages might hinder Make album on jAlbum 29 and newer
- Initial position of the thumbnail strip might be wrong
- Thumbnail strip visibility "Always hidden" and "Hide during slideshow" is ignored

Fixed:
- Google fonts were stored in the image directory's 'res' folder, which caused a ghost 'res' folder to appear in the album. They are now moved to the hidden '.jalbum' folder.

New:
- Unique background music can be assigned to each folder (select the folder, right-click + Edit, Image data panel)

New:
- Selectable icon set: Thin (as before) and Fat

Changed:
- The new features need at least jAlbum 24, therefore the compatibility requirement had to be bumped up

Updated:
- French, Dutch, and Hungarian translations

New:
- Selectable album language (if you'd like to use different from the application's language)
- Google Fonts can be used locally, no need to access them from Google servers, which might arise GDPR concerns in the EU. See Projector / Advanced / Copy Google fonts!
- The skin generates a separate image in each folder optimized for social sharing. You can control its size on the Projector / Advanced panel.
- Facebook sharing updated. Now you can share pages (and images) not only to your newsfeed but also in groups and events.

New:
- The video or audio content gets paused on going back to the cover page, resumed after getting back to lightbox

Fixed:
- The video gets interrupted during the slideshow if the interval is shorter than the video length

Changed:
- The navigation tree can be much wider than before (it was 320px)

New:
- Face tags (area tags) can be set visible by default, so visitors don't have to click the button
- Separate pause slideshow button is added when "Hide sidebar during slideshow" is used

Changed:
- Background music player is automatically closed after 3 seconds
- The Share panel is automatically closed after 5 seconds
- The slideshow plays from the 1st picture if the last picture is the current

Fixed:
- Several slideshow-related oddities and bugs
- Non-working buttons under the pictures, e.g. Photo data or Face tags

Fixed:
- Slideshow stopped after you manually moved to the next or previous image during a slideshow

Updated:
- French, Dutch, and Hungarian translations

New:
- Audio clips have volume control
- The last volume level is remembered between folders

Fixed:
- Audio clips continue when the cover is down
- Slideshow might go haywire when you manually move to the previous or next image

Changed:
- Audio clip settings are moved under "Lightbox / Buttons" tab

Fixed:
- Google Maps API key is not accepted

Updated:
- Dutch translation

Changed:
- The slideshow gets suspended until the audio clip has finished

Updated:
- Hungarian, Dutch and French translations

Version 3.3

New:
- Audio clips introduced in jAlbum 27.1 play in the lightbox. The skin's own "sound clip" functionality works too, but that was a lot harder to set up. Check "Settings / Tiger / Lightbox / Main image / Use sound clips" to enable the functionality.

Fixed:
- The sound clip button remains in playing state even after the clip has ended

Changed:
- "Use sound clips" is now on by default for new projects

Version 3.2

New:
- Image counts work for Web locations. You can also let the album dynamically read the latest stats from the linked album with the "Gather information from linked albums" option.

New:
- During the slideshow the album tries to avoid screen lock / sleep mode. Works in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, but no support in Safari and a bunch of mobile browsers yet.

Changed:
- Auto-starting videos will start muted in the case the browser refuses to play them with sound

Fixed:
- Next folder jump at the last picture doesn't work
- Videos might be smaller or larger than optimal

Improved:
- Skin UI loading

This version comes with an overwritten overlay manager and updated libraries taken over from other skins. This is supposed to fix quite a few bugs and bring better search and better handling of large databases. However, it might also bring new bugs. Always test new major versions on duplicated or unimportant projects!

Improved:
- Instant preview on the Settings panel

Fixed:
- Can't open metadata panel on touch devices
- Clicking the +(number) on Calendar page fails to gather photos taken on that day
- Error if no breadcrum path is selected

Updated:
- French translation

New:
- Custom content at the top of the cover page
- New mark can be text instead of star
- Updated custom pages
- New custom page: Calendar
- Better top bar layout (logo and top menu)

Modified:
- Moved "Mark new file" in the "Ligtbox" tab
- Moved "Right-click protect..." into "Lightbox / Main image" tab

Note:
- In order your previous custom pages (About, Contact, etc.) work properly you might need to update them using this custom tool: http://jalbum.net/forum/thread.jspa?threadID=52475&tstart=0
(Newer jAlbum versions - 21+? - update custom page templates automatically)

Changed:
- Optimized "Card" type title to avoid the hero image becoming a narrow strip
- Added border around the interactive preview to separate it from the background

Fixed:
- Hard to read title color in some of the styles with Card type header
- Smaller headline fonts for mobiles
- OK / Cancel buttons of the user interface got pushed below the taskbar on 768px high monitors

New:
- You can select "square" or "rounded" shape folder thumbnails too

Fixed:
- Too low resolution hero image in full width mode

Fixed:
- Thumbnail strip captions not always show up on mouse over

Changed:
- A few more icons got polished

New:
- Optional full screen button

Changed:
- Contents page description width is limited
- Updated (slightly changed) icon set
- Instead of all skin settings Projector skin selectively imports the settings when changing skins (within Turtle family). This way it can preserve the skin's inteded layout.

Fixed:
- Sidebar buttons remains highlighted on mobiles after toggled

Fixed:
- Unnecessary tags in the tag cloud box - for example the album title
- Better rendering os share panel on mobiles
- About page, Contents page: better layout on mobiles
- Missing close button after search

Changed:
- Default font to "Helvetica Neue"
- Ask tracking consent is off by default

New:
- Interactive preview on the User Interface
- Individual controls for the background images
- New typefaces, Open Sans is the default font family
- Top menu (on top of the Cover page) can contain folders and web locations too
- After last image you can return to Home page address too

Improved:
- Reorganized User Interface
- Most transitions got rewritten in order to achieve smoother behavior
- More modern icon set
- Improved colors with many styles
- New / Changed option: Go full screen on mobiles, which makes the page full screen on hitting the Play button or the Cover up button.
- Animated cover up/down button

Modified:
- Automatic slideshow is disabled now, visitors can start it manually

Fixed:
- Caption placement cannot be changed, always ended up center bottom.

Fixed:
- Diacritics (accented letters) in words cause them to be ignored or chunked in tag cloud

Version 1.4.2

Fixed:
- "Mark new images" function might result in broken album

Changed:
- Upload path can include index.html: http://me.jalbum.net/albumname/index.html (more convenient)

Version 1.4.1

Fixed:
- Download button appears even though the related setting is off

New:
- Improved deep data loading in large albums

Fixed:
- Map complains about "Api Key is missing", falls back to development mode

Fixed:
- MS IE and Edge browser Javascript Error
- Sidebar panels has zero width in Edge browser

New:
- Mandatory fields are marked with red asterisk

Fixed:
- Search, Tag cloud search missing results
- HTML entities might show up in Tag cloud
- HTML tags in Titles cause the ALT text broken

Fixed:
- Lightbox caption: better image number / text / buttons arrangement
- Manually set Slideshow speed and Transition length are disregarded
- Low contrast on sidebar panels, e.g. folder tree
- Low contrast on Social share buttons

Changed:
- Default hero type changed to "Full width"

New:
- Fotomoto support
- Google Maps support in the Ligthbox: bouncing the placemark of the current image
- Added Print button
- Added Download button for images
- Additional SEO content for the title and meta/description tags
- Text encoding can be other than UTF-8. Not recommended, only on servers where you can't set UTF-8.

Fixed:
- Duplicate tags in tag cloud box, and other search-related anomalies

New:
- Possibility to hide the sidebar during slideshows. You can stop the slideshow with previous / next buttons, swiping, space, etc.
- Facetag support: tagged faces (or areas) will appear on images if you click on the "People" button

Fixed:
- ${resPath} in comments (used in captions) might not get replaced with the real value

Changed:
- Better metadata template, includes more fields (e.g. Lightroom, Photoshop) and jAlbum's Copyright URL
- On mobiles the screen does not go back to normal mode from full screen when you stop the slideshow

Fixed:
- Using swipe moving before the first or after the last item, the image might get stuck out-of-screen
- Tracking consent option missing from the User Interface
- Special characters in filenames caused missing image in lightbox when called through a direct link or used the back forward browser buttons
- Browsing within the search results the URL might become corrupted (missing index.html)

New:
- Thumbnail strip visibility control: Always on / Hidden during slideshow / Always hidden (Please note, thumbstrip cannot be hidden on search results!)
- Ability to change order of the sidebar buttons
- Folder tree visibility control: Only button / Depends on window size (= button on small screens) / Always show

Changed:
- The sidebar layout changes on small height devices -> smaller buttons, no labels
- Play/Pause button moves up on small height devices
- The top cover page handle gets hidden during slideshows
- Sidebar button labels get hidden also on narrow screens
- Folder tree position "above" and "below" removed, but now you can freely reorder the buttons

Fixed:
- The main image size and position gets refreshed after toggling play/pause

New:
- Video autostart works in slideshow mode too: suspends the slideshow until the video reaches the end
- Hiding Photo data button during slideshow
- Clicking the theme image on the cover page also opens the projector
- On small screens the labels gets hidden in the sidebar

Fixed:
- Excluded custom pages still show up on the cover page
- Video autostart didn't work
- "After the last image" didn't work
- Wrong button titles in translations
- Custom page layouts

Release Candidate 2.

- Better handling of full screen mode

- Initial release. Release Candidate 1.