Hi,

fyi, I implemented it this week using GreyBox to replace my previous iBox implementation. So now you can next/previous through the images. It will be in the next release.

Its certainly possible to implement new or different image galleries but they should plug in like a content feature not using a provider model like the editor. We already have 2 image gallery features, I would like to see one that integrates Flickr or Picassa because photo storage uses a lot of disk space so it would be nice to have a gallery that offloads the storage to one of these popular services, but its not something I plan to work on soon as I have a lot of other things in the works.

Best,

Joe

Hi,

The next release is coming soon, next week or the week after. I've updated this site with the latest code, you can see the new greybox on this page http://www.mojoportal.com/gallery.aspx

It will affect existing galleries only in that they now use the greybox instead of ibox and the next/previous functionality is there.

Best,

Joe 

Hi,

Yes, they will automatically be using greybox after the upgrade, like it or not ;-)

I will probably leave the ibox files in place in case people are using it in custom features. For example in the mojoPortal.Web.Controls project there is a HelpLinkButton which uses iBox and I'm afraid people are probably using that in their custom features. I have recently marked it as obsolete/deprected because I've changed all the help links in the mojoportal features to use the new mojoHelpLink located in the Controls folder of mojPortal.Web project, it also uses the new greybox instead of iBox.

So basically I'm no longer using iBox for anything in the included features of mojoPortal and don't plan to use it going forward, but will leave it there for backward compatibility with other custom features that may exist in the wild and still depend on it.

I've seen tons of stuff on Codeplex for Flickr, its probably really low hanging fruit to implement it using one of the helper libraries out there. One day I'll get to it or maybe someone in the community will do it first.

Best,

Joe