Change Key Assignments for Keyboard Navigation

If the “Include Keyboard Support” box is checked on the BluPlusPlus General tab, one can navigate through the generated album using the keyboard. The default keyboard assignments are as follows:

• RIGHT arrow or ‘+’ key on numeric keypad: next page
• LEFT arrow or ‘-’ key on numeric keypad: previous page
• Page UP : index page
• HOME : first page
• END : last page
• S or s : toggle start/stop slide show
• I or i : toggle exif/iptc info window

Unfortunately, some these key assignments do not work with particular browsers. Fortunately, it is easy to change the key assignments! Follow these steps:

1. Determine the character code of the desired key code by this keycode detector
2. Make a copy of the file named ‘keyboard.js’ in case something goes wrong (optional, but desirable)
3. Open the file named ‘keyboard.js’ (its location is JAlbum-->Skins-->BluPlusPlus-->Res-->js—on Windows machines the JAlbum folder is located at C:\Program Files\JAlbum\)
4. Change the desired keycode to the code determined in step 1 (be sure to use a text-editor such as NotePad rather than a word processor)
5. Save the file

The images below show:

1. the keycode detector after the letter ‘r’ has been pressed (giving a keycode of 82)
2. the ‘keyboard.js’ file with the keycode for ‘next image’ (originally assigned to 39) ready to be changed to 82