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Index Page

Include slide show

Automatic looping of index pages either by clicking the slideshow button or hitting the space bar. You can give the delay time in seconds. Visitors also can change the delay time by double clicking the "start slideshow" button and entering a different value. The second option is to use this button to jump to slidepages and start the slideshow, see Jump to Slide pages!

Loop Shall the slide show start over reaching the last index page?

Jump to Slide pages Selecting this option the slideshow will start with the first picture if found any. The delay and Loop parameter will taken from the settings on the Slide page tab. Chameleon can't start the slideshow of a deeper level folder, just the current.

Page transition

Fade-in/-out effect on index pages. Shows only in Internet Explorer.

Product links

You can choose here the type of JAlbum and Chameleon links. Options are: Text or Button.

Numbered Linklist

Choose if you want a Google-like page-list to be generated on index pages, and where (i.e. above or below the thumbnails). The linklist looks like this:
Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | > |»

Folder Comments

Comments can be added to folders just as to images in JAlbum's Edit pane. Here you can specify where to display those comments.

Enhanced Picture

You can have one picture displayed in large size for each folder.

Please note, when you use virtual folders (the album elements are added separately from different folders) you cannot use the "This" type, because virtual folders does not exists phisically on your hard drive so there's no folder where the skin can find the enhanced picture. However it can find when you add a whole folder once.

Omit | Top | Left | Right The position for the Enhanced picture relative to thumbnail table. Omit = no enhanced picture.

Type

- This
  You can choose the enhanced picture by it's filename. The skin will look for the given file in each folder and displays it if finds one. You can even exculde this file in the Edit panel if you don't want this picture appear along with the normal album images, but by checking "Omit thumbnail" it can be excluded too. If you plan to add comment to the enhanced picture, use the latter method, for JAlbum cannot read comments of excluded pictures.
  This feature can be useful e.g. for displaying a map on each index page. The picture will inherit all the filters attached to slidepage pictures.
  If the picture is already exists in the output folder (the same as the index page's) the program will copy the enhanced file only if you chose the "All" option before making the album (or "Rebuild all" with Jalbum 6.x). You can force the re-copying of the enhanced picture by removing it from the output folder in the case you've changed the size and don't want to rebuild all the pictures.
  Please note, when you use virtual folders (the album elements are added separately from different folders) you need to place the file you want to show in Album's directory. You can open this directory by Tools / Open Directories / Output directory.
- First Picture
  The program automatically chooses the first picture from the directory (you can move the desired picture manually to the first place in the Edit panel).
- Folder Icon
  The picture chosen as "Folder thumbnail" in the Edit panel will be used.

SizeYou can specify here the picture bounds of the enhanced picture. The images will resized to fit in this box and will keep their original aspect ratio. If this size is bigger than the original size, no resizing will done.

Omit thumbnailIf you use "First Picture" or "Folder Icon" you must not exculde the chosen picture — doing so JAlbum cannot generate the icon for them. Even though these pictures will be included in the album you can instruct Chameleon to remove its thumbnail from the index page table. If you use "This" type, you can exclude the picture manually in the Edit tab too by pressing the '-' sign.

Blog style layout

This layout is designed for the top level pages of albums. It always shows one picture per row. There are two options:

- Using thumbnails
  This layout has the normal thumbnails on the left side, the text attached to the thumbnail is right to it (algined left). In the case of a thumbnail it shows big fonts for the folder title.

Folder title

14 images

Comment of the folder. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

- Using Images
  This way the large pictures of slide pages will be used instead of thumbnails. You can specify their bounds (maximum dimensions) in the size boxes. Note, that you cannot have larger images than your slide page pictures. Chameleon sets as half of the Image bounds as set on Settings / Images panel.

Folder title

14 images

Comment of the folder. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

LevelsYou can specify here the directory depth until the blog style layout should be applied. 1 means only on top level, 2 means one level deeper.

Notes

- By using Folders and Pictures mixed in a folder you might find it hard to spot the difference between them.
- Using password protected folders with slide images you might get broken picture links.
- You can make single page gallery by deselecting "Make slides" on Settings / Navigation page. Choose the original dimensions (Settings / Images) for the best result with Blog style images.