Projector 4.6.0

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.