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BluPlusPlus Slide Tab

Additional information about the options on the Slide 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.
GUI Element: Include Slide Show
Purpose: Specifies whether to enable the automatic Slide Show
Values:true/false
Defaults: true
Notes:n/a
GUI Element: Cyclic Slide Show
Purpose: Specifies whether a slide show should cycle indefinitely or should stop after reaching the last slide in the folder.
Values: true/false
Defaults: true
Notes: n/a
GUI Element: Slide Show Delay
Purpose: Specifies in seconds the delay between slides WITHOUT comments when the Slide Show is enabled (see Include Slide Show)
Values: any number
Defaults:4
Notes:n/a
GUI Element: Delay on Movie
Purpose: Specifies in seconds the delay for a movie slide when the Slide Show is enabled (see Include Slide Show)
Values: any number
Defaults: 15
Notes:n/a
GUI Element: Delay on Comments
Purpose: Specifies in seconds the delay between slides WITH comments when the Slide Show is enabled (see Include Slide Show)
Values: any number
Defaults:4
Notes:n/a
GUI Element: Slide HTML Title
Purpose: Specifies what displays in the browser title bar on slide pages
Values: Any or all of the following may be set (if more than one is specified, they must be separated by either ‘|’, ‘,’ or ‘;’):
  • AlbumTitle: The title of the album as specified on the BluPlusPlus General tab
  • FolderTitle: The name of the containing folder
  • Title: Title of the image
  • FileName: Real file name of the image file
  • FileType: Extension of the image file (e.g. ‘.jpg’)
  • Date: If present in EXIF data, the date the image was taken by the camera; otherwise, the image file modification date
  • Dimension: Dimensions (in pixels) of the original image
  • SlideDimension: Dimension (in pixels) of the slide image
  • FileSize: File size of the original image
  • any EXIF/IPTC field: A full EXIF/IPTC field name
Defaults:AlbumTitle|FolderTitle|Title
Notes:

If no title is specified on the JAlbum main window or in a meta.properties file, Title and FileName are the same.

If ‘none’ is specified in this field the browser title bar will display the name of the slide image file (usually ‘slideimagename.html’)
GUI Element: Breadcrumb Trail Content
Purpose: Allows for the customization of the tex display for the current image in the top bar
Values: Any or all of the following may be set (if more than one is specified, they must be separated by either ‘|’, ‘,’ or ‘;’):
  • AlbumTitle: The title of the album
  • FolderTitle: The name of the containing folder
  • Title: Title of the image
  • FileName: Real file name of the image file
  • FileType: Extension of the image file (e.g. ‘.jpg’)
  • Date: If present in EXIF data, the date the image was taken by the camera; otherwise, the image file modification date
  • Dimension: Dimensions (in pixels) of the original image
  • SlideDimension: Dimension (in pixels) of the slide image
  • FileSize: File size of the original image
  • any EXIF/IPTC field: A full EXIF/IPTC field name
Defaults: AlbumTitle|FolderTitle|Title
Notes:

If no title is specified on the JAlbum main window or in a meta.properties file, Title and FileName are the same.

If ‘none’ is specified in this field the browser title bar will display the name of the slide image file (usually ‘slideimagename.html’)
GUI Element: Include Thumbnails
Purpose: Specifies whether thumbnails images of the next few/previous few slides are included on the slide image pages
Values:true/false
Defaults: true
Notes:n/a
GUI Element: Thumbnail Count
Purpose:Specifies how many thumbnails images of the next few/previous few slides are shown on the slide image pages
Values:Any number
Defaults:5 (up to 5 next and up to 5 previous thumbnails are shown, for a total of up to 10)
Notes:n/a
GUI Element: Thumbnail Ratio
Purpose: Specifies the size of the thumbnail images on slide pages as a multiple of the size of the thumbnail images on the index pages
Values:Any number
Defaults: .5 (that is, the height and width of the slide thumbs will be half the height and width of the index thumbs)
Notes: This variable has no effect if includeSlidePageThumbnails is set to ‘no’
GUI Element: Movie Slides Dimension
Purpose: Specifies width and height of the movie display window
Values: Choose from several presets or type in any desired values
Defaults: 640x480
Notes: Some experimentation may be needed to ensure that various movie formats display as desired
GUI Element: Prefetch Sibling Slides
Purpose: Specifies whether the next and previous slide images should be prefetched
Values: true/false
Defaults: true
Notes: “Prefetching” means that the next and previous slide images will be loaded “behind the scenes” as a given slide is being viewed. This is particularly valuable for users on a slower, dial-up internet connection.
GUI Element: Include Page Blending/Fading
Purpose: Specifies whether the fade in/fade out blending effect is activated on slide pages
Values:true/false
Defaults: true
Notes: This feature only works with Internet Explorer on a PC
GUI Element: Include Move Forward Facility
Purpose: Specifies whether to enable the ability to move to the next slide when a slide image is clicked.
Values:true/false
Defaults: true
Notes: This feature works only if “Link to originals via scaled images” is NOT enabled on the JAlbum Main tab.
GUI Element: Slide Caption Content
Purpose: Specifies what information appears directly below images on slide pages
Values: Any or all of the following may be set; if more than one is specified, they must be separated by either ‘|’, ‘,’, ‘~’ , or ‘;’ (a double symbol— ‘||’, ‘,,’, ‘~~’ , or ‘;;’ forces a line break):
  • Title: Title of the image
  • FileName: Real file name of the image file
  • FileType: Extension of the image file (e.g. ‘.jpg’)
  • Date: If present in EXIF data, the date the image was taken by the camera; otherwise, the image file modification date
  • Dimension: Dimensions (in pixels) of the original image
  • SlideDimension: Dimension (in pixels) of the slide image
  • FileSize: File size of the original image
  • any EXIF/IPTC field: A full EXIF/IPTC field name
Defaults: FileName|Dimension|FileSize||Date (note: the double bar (‘||’) is not an error!)

Notes:

The parameter separators may be mixed. For example, the following is valid: FileName|Dimension|FileSize~~Date

If no title is specified on the JAlbum main window or in a meta.properties file, Title and FileName are the same.

Specifying “none” (without the quotes) will cause BPP not to display any caption.

More information about EXIF/IPTC information is available here.
GUI Element: Breadcrumb Trail Content
Purpose: Specifies what appears in the breadcrumb trail in the top bar after the word “Viewing...”
Values: Any one of the following may be set:
  • Title: Title of the image
  • FileName: Real file name of the image file
  • any EXIF/IPTC field: A full EXIF/IPTC field name
Defaults: Title
Notes:

If no title is specified on the JAlbum main window or in a meta.properties file, Title and FileName are the same.

More information about EXIF/IPTC information is available here.
GUI Element: Enable Slide Content
Purpose: Specifies whether the slide comment section is enabled or disabled
Values: true/false
Defaults: true
Notes:

 
GUI Element: Slide Comment Horizontal Alignment
Purpose:Specifies the relative horizontal position of slide comments
Values:Left/Center/Right
Defaults:Left
Notes:n/a
GUI Element: Slide Comment Vertical Position
Purpose:Specifies the relative vertical position of slide comments
Values: TOP_ABOVE_NAVIGATION/TOP_UNDER_NAVIGATION/BOTTOM (be sure to use all caps)
Defaults:TOP_UNDER_NAVIGATION
Notes:Slide comments can be placed in one of three positions on the slide image page: (1) immediately above the navigation icons, (2) immediately below the navigation icons, and (3) below the slide image