Melon's Gallery Maker! - Info/Question Thread

[benitengu]

Hmm, so the problem is that you can't set a new login?

Well, the login is actually the same. I have the Neocities membership, so I have 2 websites under one login.

[Melooon]

I have the Neocities membership, so I have 2 websites under one login.

The logins are actually different; you use the sites username to upload to a particular site e.g. melonking v gifypet !

[peachdelta]

I've been trying to upload my art gallery so I can host my archive on my personal site and it's been giving me some grief. Whenever I try to upload it, I get this error:

A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
at IncomingMessage.<anonymous>
(C:\Users\Delta\AppData\Local\Temp\2WPKY5t4BLcL5Irs8dxKtSsXTmj\resources\app.as...:31)
at IncomingMessage.emit (node:events:525:35)
at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1359:12)
at process.process TicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)

Is there either a fix or a workaround for this? I've tried redownloading the program and it hasn't seemed to help. I renamed all of the files to not have any characters that aren't numbers, letters, or spaces, so that can't be the problem.

Also, is there any way to manually organize the folders in the gallery? I'd like it to go like January 2017 - February 2017 - March 2017 (and so forth), but it seems to be stuck going like April 2017 - April 2018 - April 2019 since its alphabetical. Worst comes to worst I can just number the folders accordingly, but I'd like to avoid it since I'd have to change the number every time I add a new month.

[Melooon]

Is there either a fix or a workaround for this?

The best I can tell from that error is that Neocities is responding with junk information instead of telling the gallery maker whats wrong ~ it does this a lot, and its really been painfully unreliable to work with 

The only work around is to try again at another time, maybe NC will sort itself out; otherwise you can use the NC CLI to manually upload your gallery (I tend to do this with mine).

(Assuming you want your gallery to be MYURL/gallery - put your output gallery in an empty folder, then run to CLI from that folder and use the push command!)

manually organize the folders in the gallery

Numbering is your best option! The Gallery maker has no UI for sorting or organising; it just replicates and formats folders and files; its not within its scope to add UI to do that. However I presume the issue for you here is that you just want the links on the index page sorted? 

You can always edit the index file yourself after it generates, or just create your own and link to it, instead of the default index; alternatively you could even include a javascript that sorts the links based on your own parameters!