jAlbum forums : Thread List - Skin and tool development

Problem with Fileiterator Code

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:31:38 +0100

Hi, I've been having some trouble creating my album lately.
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Problem creating a new skin based on PhotoBlogger

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:11:59 +0100

Hi, I have just bought a copy of jAlbum and find it very nice to use. I wanted to add password protection via .php to the PhotoBlogger output. I realise I will have to change the output files from index.html to index.php and generate copy of the...

How to get the description of the folder one level up?

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:46:31 +0100

Hi, I use tiger skin and slightly adapt the slide.htt according to my needs. My album has a structure whith to level of folders. In the slide.htt I use the ${description} of the current album directory and also the ${albumDescription} of the entire...

What is the simplest way to parse xml-file?

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:57:07 +0100

It seems the groovy libraries

groovy.xml.XmlParser
groovy.xml.XmlSlurper

are missing in jAlbum.

Cleaning up path variables

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:04:02 +0100

I suspect that you skin developers have opinions about the values of certain skin variables like thumbPath, imagePath, iconPath, originalPath and contentPath. I plan to rewrite the *path variables (the code is a mess) and at the same time adjust things...

Comments are missing in view-folders

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:38:39 +0100

I have an album with only two images. One image is marked with a red flag.
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ClassNotFound exception when trying to use new skin

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:48:06 +0100

I am using jalbum 38.
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New "Internal linking support" skin feature

anders@jalbum.net — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:52:59 +0100

There is a new "Internal linking support" skin feature for those skins that supports this new feature in jAlbum 38. It will be set automatically when uploading a new version of a skin (that supports it), but if you already have released an updated...

Any bright ideas?

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:29:30 +0200

OK, at first I thought this was a bug, but it isn't, really. It's a weird side-effect of something I do in just one of my skins, to wit, Jupiter (which I'm in the midst of heavily revising). It only crops up if you're doing the following:
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Better caption templates

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:57:59 +0200

I'm thinking of integrating caption templates in the core of jAlbum so they become uniform. Apart from supporting the standard tags and ${expressionLanguage} syntax, I think this form would be convenient:
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