album
![/space/album.jpg](/space/album.jpg)**About**

We've created a simple macro that creates a photo album interface for pictures.
Our macro generates thumbnails for a set of pictures and shows the thumbnails on
the same page. Each thumbnail is a link to a slideshow! "web-sized" images are
used in the slideshow, and a link to the full-sized version is also provided. By
"web-sized" we mean 800px, but you can define that in the parameters, please see
**Usage**.

Here is an example [Draw Group](/gallery/Draw Group)

**Download**

You can [download MakeAlbum.jar](http://cs.stanford.edu/~maulik/MakeAlbum.jar)
here.

**Usage**

version-a-little-more-than-before:

Goodbye config file! Hello plug and play!

To use make-album just pop the jar into your application's WEB-INF/lib directory
and restart the server. Make a new snip using this following tag:

    {make-album:albumDirName}

Where albumDirName is a directory in your application's images directory.
Default thumbnail size is 240px and default web-size is 800px. if you'd like to
change them, you can specify those as parameters like so:

    {make-album:albumDirName|thumb\_size|web\_size}

Where thumb\_size and web\_size are integers.

Also, if you're running this on **linux, unix**, etc. you will need to modify
your run script to include this java flag:

    java -Djava.awt.headless=true

Please see **Notes** for more.

**Future plans**

Next on the list is to make a **very** user friendly way to enter captions....

**Authors**

[Maulik](http://maulik.net/) and [Ryan](http://ryan.barrett.name/)

**Notes**

Fix! Some of you may have noticed that some thumbnails/websized images ended up
being of a psychedelic nature. if you use the new jar, you will no longer notice
that effect as the method for resizing pictures has been changed.

Source and a Makefile are included in MakeAlbum.jar.

As promised, more on the headless issue: On Linux (or \*nix), please run java
with the -Djava.awt.headless=true option. (You can add this to run.sh.) If this
system property is not set, AWT will try to connect to an X Windows display,
which usually won't work since SnipSnap is a server. If you're on Linux, and you
see "make-album: none" in red when you use the make-album macro, this should
solve your problem.

Stay tuned!