Simple Media Gallery for Books, Movie,TV-Series, Games, etc

[Mr.Red]

@Mike

That does the trick, thanks!

I will add it later to the library, expect an update later or tomorrow where this snippet will be included.

[Mr.Red]

[UPDATE]

• just pushed an update with snippet to move the widget control buttons outside the widget window, which should fix the issue (raised by @Mike ) of overlapping buttons in the top right corner.

[Mike]

I was trying to setup a custom mediaGallery and it doesn't pickup my custom config (which is kept in my CONFIG file). After some playing around, I solved it by moving the lines below into the widgets.mediaGallery function. With this adjustment, it picks up my config properly.

Am I making some mistake (it has been known to happen ) or is this a bug?

-- Configuration Defaults
local cfg = config.get("mediaGallery") or {}
local tileSize = cfg.tileSize or "160px" -- default for posters
local pageRows = cfg.pageRows or 2 -- pagination limit by rows

[Mr.Red]

Technically you shouldn't modify anything in the source

just add the config example to a space-lua codeblock in your CONFIG page (or technically any page should work too).

config.set("mediaGallery",{
  tileSize = "180px", -- default value for Virtual Page or if not specified in widget
  pageRows = 2,       -- default value for Virtual Page or if not specified in widget
--  custom = {
--    {"object","person",{"name","birthday","phone","emoji"}}
--  }
})

If it the config still doesn't apply/load correctly, check/add the priority to the config codeblock:
-- prioirity: 10 or -- prioirity: 100 or any higher positive number, depending on your setup.

This should make the config load in the correct order. If this solves the issue please give me a short feedback, so I can add it to the config example or documentation.

[Mike]

Thanks, setting the priority addresses the problem. Forgot about the whole loading order thing.

PS: I know modifying the source is not the way to go, but it did help me to troubleshoot the issue, at least to some degree.

[Mr.Red]

if this solved your issue, I might modify the space-lua in the library with -- priority: -1 this might even solve the necessity to use the priority attribute in the config alltogether.

I'll do some tests and will update the library later today with the -1 priority.

Thanks for your feedback.

PS: I thinking about modifying all my libraries and adding the --priority: -1 to all codeblock which supposed to use config, so that the order is already dictated by the library and not needign to set anything in the config

[Mr.Red]

I pushed the update of the Library with -- priority: -1 in the space-lua block.

Can you confirm that if you remove the -- priority attribute from your config, it it still works?

[Mike]

I can confirm that the updated version works - I removed the priority line from my CONFIG and updated the library and my config is still correctly loaded.

[goldwarq]

Would it be possible to add some kind of tutorial on how to use this? I have installed it but am completely stumped. The virtual pages are empty, and I can't figure out how to add any data.

[Mr.Red]

You can use the dedicated Media Manager to add Movies/TV-Shows/Books automatically to the gallery.

1. Install this library from my repo: MediaManager

2. Then Run the Media Manager: Add item command and follow the instructions:
   

   

3. Select the Media type you want to add, e.g.: Books:
   

   

4. Search and add the desired book.
   

   

5. This will automatically will create a new page with the media informations:

6. Then you navigate to that specific virtual page(Books/TV-Shows/Movie): you'll see the added media:

of course if you want to add your own media type for example: Contacts, Games, Pokemon Cards etc. you can do so by creating specific object codeblocks or Pages using your custom codeblock-tag or writing the attributes to the page frontmatter.

If you have something specific in mind you would like to add to the gallery other than TV-Shows/Books/Movies, feel free to give some more detail, and the source & information of that media type, and i could give you some more instructions, but without knowing exactly for what do you want to use the Media Gallery, i cant be more specific.