BluPlusPlus General Tab
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Additional information about the options on the General tab is presented
two ways:
- Hover over option on the figure
below for a tooltip explaining the option.
- Click on any option on the figure below to
be taken to additional information on the selected GUI element.
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| GUI Element |
Include Keyboard Support |
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| Purpose: |
Specifies whether keyboard navigation support should be turned on |
| Values: | true/false |
| Defaults: |
true |
| Notes: | BPP permits navigation from slide to slide to be
accomplished via key strokes as well as via clicking on the navigation icons.
If enabled, the following keys can be used for navigation (note that not
all browsers support this feature completely):
- RIGHT arrow : next page
- LEFT arrow : previous page
- Page UP: index page
- HOME : first page
- END : last page
- S or s : toggle start/stop slide show (does not work on an index page)
- I or i : toggle exif info (does not work on an index page)
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| GUI Element |
Include Image Save-Protection |
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| Purpose: |
Specifies whether to disable the ability to save an image to disk via right-clicking. |
| Values: | true/false |
| Defaults: |
false |
| Notes: |
While this provides good first level protection, there are many ways available
on the net to defeat this kind of protection. |
| GUI Element |
Include First & Last Page Actions |
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| Purpose: |
Specifies whether to include the icons linking to the first
and last slides in a folder |
| Values: | true/false |
| Defaults: |
true |
| Notes: | n/a |
| GUI Element |
Include Jump-To-Page Facility |
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| Purpose: |
Specifies whether the Jump to Page drop down menu that
appears in the top bar is produced |
| Values: |
true/false |
| Defaults: |
true |
| Notes: | n/a |
| GUI Element |
Context Help Style |
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| Purpose: |
Specifies the style for context help |
| Values: |
Any one of the following:
- None: No context help
- Tooltip: Context help only in tooltip form
- StatusBar: Context help in a statusbar that appears below the navigation
icons
- Both: Context help provided by tooltips and statusbar
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| Defaults: |
Tooltip |
| Notes: |
The location and look of the statusbar can be changed by altering
the appropriate CSS. |
| GUI Element |
Include Navigation Tips (mostly shortcuts) |
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| Purpose: |
Specifies whether to enable the navigation tips popup box |
| Values: | true/false |
| Defaults: |
false |
| Notes: |
If enabled, clicking on the icon placed in the upper right corner
of all album pages toggles a popup box listing the available navigation
key assignments. |
| GUI Element |
Navigation Bar Location |
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| Purpose: |
Specifies where the navigation icons should appear |
| Values: |
top/bottom/both |
| Defaults: |
top |
| Notes: |
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| GUI Element |
Icon Set |
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| Purpose: | Specifies the set of icons to be used |
| Values: |
bright-matte/dark-matte/universal/white/black |
| Defaults: |
depends on style chosen on the JAlbum
main window and the value set in
a theme.properties file |
| Notes: |
“Bright-matte” good with light-colored styles, “dark-matte” looks
good with the dark style, and “universal” looks good with any
background. In order to achieve universality, the “universal” icon
set strike many as not being quite as elegant as the other two sets; however,
each of the first two sets only look good with a limited set of backgrounds |
| GUI Element |
Language |
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| Purpose: |
Specifies the language to be used |
| Values: |
ca/cs/da/de/en/es/fr/hu/it/nl/pl/pt/sk/zh |
| Defaults: |
en |
| Notes: |
- Catalan—ca
- Chinese—zh
- Croatian—hr
- Czech—cs
- Danish—da
- Dutch—nl
- English—en
- French—fr
- German—de
- Hebrew—iw
- Hungarian—hu
- Italian—it
- Norwegian—no
- Polish—pl
- Romanian—ro
- Russian—ru
- Portuguese—pt
- Slovak—sk
- Spanish—es
- Swedish—sv
- Ukranian—uk
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| GUI Element |
Album Title |
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| Purpose: |
Specifies a title for an album |
| Values: |
Any text |
| Defaults: |
If left blank, title defaults to the name of the source (input)
folder |
| Notes: |
The album title appears at the left of all top bars on slide
and index pages and links to the main album index page |
| GUI Element |
External Home Path |
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| Purpose: |
Specifies where to go when the HOME link in the top blue bar is selected |
| Values: |
any valid path |
| Defaults: |
empty (no value, and therefore the HOME link is not generated) |
| Notes: |
By setting this variable appropriately a link will
be generated to allow the user to exit the album entirely by clicking on
the left most link of the top blue bar (“HOME”). Use ‘../’ to
specify a directory one level higher than the root of the generated album
(e.g., to have the ‘HOME’ link refer to a file called ‘index.html’ in
the folder containing the topmost folder in the generated album, specify ‘../index.html’). |
| GUI Element |
Copyright Message |
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| Purpose: | Specifies text to be used in a copywright notice placed
at the bottom of all generated index and image pages |
| Values: | any text |
| Defaults: |
none |
| Notes: | n/a |
| GUI Element |
Meta Tags |
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| Purpose: |
Meta tags are inserted into the <head> section of HTML web pages to
provide information to search engines. Search engines do not all use the content of meta
tags in the same manner |
| Values: |
n/a |
| Defaults: |
n/a |
| Notes: | n/a |
| GUI Element |
Meta Tags On Index Pages |
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| Purpose: |
If checked, meta tags are inserted into the <head> section of index
pages to provide information to search engines |
| Values: |
true/false |
| Defaults: |
false |
| Notes: |
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| GUI Element |
Meta Tags On Slide Pages |
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| Purpose: |
If checked, meta tags are inserted into the <head> section of slide
pages to provide information to search engines |
| Values: |
true/false |
| Defaults: |
false |
| Notes: |
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| GUI Element |
Copyright Meta Tag |
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| Purpose: |
If checked, a copyright meta tag is inserted in the <head> section of album
pages |
| Values: |
true/false |
| Defaults: |
false |
| Notes: |
The copyright information is taken from the content of the Copyright
message field |
| GUI Element |
Description Meta Tag |
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| Purpose: |
Specifies the content of the Descripton meta tag |
| Values: |
any desired text |
| Defaults: |
n/a |
| Notes: |
No syntax checking is done here; whatever is entered in this field (including
text that is invalid here) will be placed in the Description meta tag |
| GUI Element |
Keywords Meta Tag |
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| Purpose: |
Specifies the content of the Keywords meta tag |
| Values: |
a list of desired keywords, separated by commas |
| Defaults: |
photos, gallery, images |
| Notes: |
No syntax checking is done here; whatever is entered in this field (including
text that is invalid here) will be placed in the Keywords meta tag |
| GUI Element |
Rating Meta Tags |
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| Purpose: |
Meta tags are inserted into the <head> section of HTML web pages to provide
information to search engines |
| Values: |
Any one or compatible two of the following (separated by commas):
- General: suitable for general audiences
- Mature: content contains language or images that are ‘R’ rated
- Restricted: content contains explicit language or images
- 14 Years : equivalent to a movie rating of ‘PG-13’
- Kids: equivalent to a movie rating of ‘G’
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| Defaults: |
General |
| Notes: |
No syntax checking is done here; whatever is entered in this field (including
text that is invalid here) will be placed in the Ratings meta tag |
| GUI Element |
Robots Meta Tags |
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| Purpose: |
Robots meta tags how automatic search engine ‘bots’ interact with
the album |
| Values: |
Any one or compatible two of the following (separated by commas):
- index: allow search engines to index album pages
- noindex: do not allow search engines to index album pages
- follow: search engines may follow links on an album page to other web pages
- nofollow: search engines may not follow links on an album page to other web
pages
- all: equivalent to ‘index, follow’
- none: equivalent to ‘noindex, nofollow’
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| Defaults: |
index, follow |
| Notes: |
No syntax checking is done here; whatever is entered in this field (including
text that is invalid here) will be placed in the Robots meta tag.
Not all search engines observe this meta tag; Google does not. |
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