Customizing Icon sets and Languages

It is possible to create new icon sets as well as to support additional languages. New icon sets and languages will be picked up by the BluPlusPlus interface and will be selectable on the BluPlusPlus-General tab.

Icon Sets

Icon sets are in a folder called ‘actions’ within the ‘res’ folder. The ‘res’ folder an be found in this path: JAlbum-->Skins-->BluPlusPlus-->res. On a PC, the default location of the JAlbum folder is inside the ‘Programs’ folder on the hard drive. On a Mac running OS X, the JAlbum folder is placed by default within the main Applications folder, but can be placed anywhere on the drive.

To create a custom icon set, create a new folder within the ‘actions’ folder. Be sure to populate your new action folder with files named exactly as the files within the other icon sets folder.

Languages

Languages are supported via files of the form ‘texts_xx.properties’ within the BluPlusPlus folder, where ‘xx’ is a two-character code specifying the language. To support a new language, create a new file with an appropriate two-character code and edit that file with a text processor to contain translations of all the terms within one of the existing language files. Please follow the international conventions on language naming (ISO 639). Two sources of this information are http://www.geo-guide.de/info/tools/languagecode.html and http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso639.txt

A list of the languages currently supported by BPP can be found here.