[ic] Image listing widget with a different directory

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (John Allman)]

mike@perusion.com wrote:
> Quoting John Allman (allmanj@houseofireland.com):
> 
>>>Maybe you misunderstood me. DON'T click meta. Just edit the record
>>>in the table_editor, or by hand with eg/te or your favorite editor.
>>>
>>
>>got right in there with vim. added in a line that looks like this:
>>
>>news::image     imagedir                                                images/articles										
>>(there are the correct number of tabs)
>>
>>the above line gets me a textbox, whereas
>>
>>news::image     imagedir                                                images/thumb										
>>gets me a drop down menu. there is something really fruity going on...
>>
> 
> 
> Are you sure that directory exists? No typos anywhere? No embedded
> control characters? No permissions problems? There is no
> reason that it should not work.
> 

gah! there were no typos but i was looking in the wrong base directory. 
i think the real reason it wouldn't work was that i should have had the 
images directory in my catalog directory symlinked to the images 
directory in my html directory. once i did that (and added files to the 
correct directory) everything worked a charm.

please excuse the excessive use of the word 'directory'.

thanks for your help!

John