• Registered: 2010-01-12
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Topic: How come Flickr photos have both a title and description?

The files in gallery.xml have just a single <caption>. But if you use Flickr instead, suddenly you get both a large title and a smaller description. Can you do it with gallery.xml too (<title> and <description> have no affect)?

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  • Registered: 2010-01-12
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Re: How come Flickr photos have both a title and description?

I still don't understand why is it only supported for Flickr.

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  • Registered: 2009-03-17
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Re: How come Flickr photos have both a title and description?

It's done by using HTML in the caption tag, you can use the font tag to control the font size and <br> to add line breaks.

Mike Richards
SimpleViewer Support Team.
  • Registered: 2010-01-12
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Re: How come Flickr photos have both a title and description?

Can you post what does Flickr use? For example, does it use relative EM units or just static sizes?

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Re: How come Flickr photos have both a title and description?

I don't know what the data from flickr looks like, but it probably just comes in as text and SimpleViewer formats it. I would suggest using the sample caption form the link I provided as a base.

From:

<caption><![CDATA[<font face="Times" size="20" color="#ffff00"> Big times text</font><b>bold text</b><u><a href="index.html" target="_blank">link text </a></u><br>New line of text]]></caption>

To something like this:

<caption><![CDATA[<font face="Times" size="20" color="#ffff00"><b> The Title</b></font><br>the description]]></caption>

or

<caption><![CDATA[<font face="Times" size="16" color="#ffffff"> The Title</font><br><font face="Times" size="10" color="#ffffff">the description</font>]]></caption>
Mike Richards
SimpleViewer Support Team.