Power Book

Hi, sorry… I forgot that the movieclip is used to define the shape and proportions of the corners, but that the overall size is defined at runtime, to let them scale together with the book.
So, a bit of AS modifications also here…

com/cyberleaf/powerbook/Sheet.as – line 970 and following:

if (current_side==0){
...
_cornerTop.height = _side0Back.width*0.3;
_cornerTop.width = _side0Back.height*0.15;

_cornerBottom.width = _side0Back.width*0.3;
_cornerBottom.height = _side0Back.height*0.15;
…
else{…
_cornerTop.width = _side0Back.width*0.3;
_cornerTop.height = _side0Back.height*0.15;

_cornerBottom.height = _side0Back.width*0.3;
_cornerBottom.width = _side0Back.height*0.15;

so, just increase the 0.3 (width) and 0.15 (height) factors for all these lines and you should obtain what you need!

[Inspectable(defaultValue="source/global.xml", type=String, name="XML Path", variable="url_xml")]

if (url_xml==null || url_xml=="") url_xml="source/global.xml";

Thanks in advance CyberLeaf!

Hi,
sorry for the delay of my answer.

• remove the “title” attribute from the Book node (but then the title will also disappear from the Summary and the Library), or you can
• edit the AS code… go to PowerBook.as, line 533 you should have:

if (book.title!="") infoText = "<p><font size="20">"+book.title+"</font></p>"+infoText;

remove the part referring to “book.title” and you are done.

I will add anyway a new option in the next release, for the Info node… something like “show_booktitle”

Share and contact windows: for how the application has been designed I am sorry the answer is “no” at the moment.
I thought that contacts and share should have remained “global”, since just the info window should have reflected the single book informations… but maybe I thought wrong.
I will think about that, but at the moment I am sorry there is no quick modification to the AS code that would allow you to do that.

• open the fla
• in the “Main” scene click on the Power Book object on the stage
• change the “XML Path” option in the component properties (Properties tab)
• recompile the swf

that’s it! You don’t need to edit AS to do that

Hi John,
isn’t it what the Library section already does? I mean to be able to add more books and see their thumbs like in an archive section.
Or do you mean creating an online service and repository like Issuu? (in that case I fear it goes beyond my possibilities )

Hi John, sorry for the delay.
You can upload as many books as you want. The books list (with their covers) in the Library screen will just scroll down if needed
In the global.xml, in the “Library” node (within the “Interface” node) you also have the option columns that will let you choose in how many columns your books thumbs will be divided (and the “padding” as well, so to reduce the thumbs area size, and so their individual size, since their size and placement is always fluid: it depends on the overall application area size).

To add more books you just need to add more book XMLs.
Please have a look at page 13 of the help manual (Defining the Books List) to understand where you can specify the books xml locations. The easiest way maybe is to add them directly in the “Books” node within the global.xml (as you can see from the demo).

Hi Lucas, I will check this as soon as possible (I need to make some tests and see where the error is). Thanks for your segnalation!

Hi Lucas,
the pages counter changes its color according to the toolbar “buttons_color” property, but only when its type is set to toolbar (so in “advanced” mode its color will remain the same).
But I agree with you… it should change its color maybe even in advanced mode. Or I should add a “color” option to the pages counter node in the XML … I will think about this.

In the meanwhile the only way of changing the pages counter color (while in advande mode) is editing its movieclip in the fla
(INTERFACE / TOOLBAR / toolbarZoomPagesNav_back)

Not at the moment (unless you want to edit a bit of ActionScript), but in the next version I will improve the arrows with more customizations.

If you want to edit the ActionScript for the arrows you should have a look at an aswer above I gave to LrdStudios, where I explain where the code for the arrows position is.

Hi eddjusted, thanks for your purchase!

1&2: not directly in the Power Book application at the moment… sorry.
If you are using the application in a web page you can call anyway a javascript callback (a function), when the user “clicks” on an area, that will open an html popup or a lightbox window (so, not made with Flash… but there you can add content to it like any normal web page).

3.: not at the moment, but I would like to add that feature in a next release (a sort of Image gallery module)

thanks for your support and appreciation

good idea… I can add an option for the zoom viewer that will let you choose to resize the page to “fit” and not to “fill” as it is now. So you will see the whole page when you enter the zoom mode.

Thanks for the reply.

One question in this case. If we set page mode to “fit”. In case of resizing will it resize considering double page size or single page size? Can it be possible to add a separate button for single page layout just like zoom button and which can again be zoomed by clicking zoom button ?

Hi, sorry for the delay of my answer.

While in zoom mode double pages are considered as one unique page, so the “fit” mode will make your double page to fit the screen as a whole.
Thanks for the suggestion on the “single page” mode… I will think about that.
I have yet to decide what to add exactly in the next release, and when to start working on it.. but this may depends also on the sales, which are a bit slow lately (for Flash-made flip books in general I fear…).

Hi eric318, I am glad that you are happy with your purchase!

The other swfs you can find in the “deploy” folder uses “Arial” as the embedded font (instead of “Myriad Web”), so you need to change the font family from the XMLs (sorry, I forgot to explain that, you are right).
So, just open global.xml and look for the “StyleSheet” node

<StyleSheet>
    <![CDATA[
        body{ font-size:14px; font-family:"Arial"; text-align:left; letter-spacing:0px; }
        ...
    </StyleSheet>

and just set “Arial” here in the body attributes. This is used for all the windows texts (info, contacts, etc…)

Do the same then in your book XMLs (always in the StyleSheet nodes). This affects instead the area and text modules in your pages.

Hi John,
I am glad you are happy with your purchase, and thanks for the appreciation, again

You can control the books thumbs size using the options padding and columns in the “library” node (global.xml)

<library tooltip="CHOOSE A BOOK" open_at_start="true" columns="3" padding="25" show_titles="true" blackbackground_transparency="60" selector="arrow"/>

• with columns you specify the number of columns in which the book thumbs are divided. Even if you set this to a number higher than your actual thumbs, increasing it will result in reducing the thumbs size (more thumbs must fit within a single row)
• with padding you control the size (in pixels) of the empty area around the thumbs list (a sort of margin from the application borders). So, increasing the padding, and reducing the actual size of the thumbs list, will result in reducing the single thumbs dimensions (they must be smaller to fit within the reduced available space)

Unfortunately I am not an expert of Hebrew language, so please send me an email (abaroni[at]gmail.com) with your XML (with the Hebrew text), and maybe a screenshot to let me understand better how the characters should be aligned.

I had helped another customer before who was using Hebrew characters, but he never told me of this problem (maybe I should get the both of you in contact… ).
Anyway, if it’s something that can be fixed in Flash I will be glad to help you.

Hi John, sorry for the delay.

To add more logos to the background just add more logo nodes in the global.xml, inside the “Interface” node, this way:

<logo url="assets/backgrounds/yourLogo.png" position="left bottom" link="..." linktarget="_blank"/>

<logo url="assets/backgrounds/yourLogo2.png" position="center top" link="..." />

...

Just set a different position attribute if you do not want them to overlap.
You have 9 predefined positions you can choose from, defined by combining the words top,bottom and middle with left,right and center, as you can see from the example above.

Hi,
I don’t remember… which version of the swf are you using? The one with Arial font?
Can you please send me your XMLs with an email so I can have a look at them?
So, only the Info window text is not showing properly, isn’t it? Have you recompiled the swf from the fla?

Hi paperclipped, thanks for your interest in my software!

About InDesign export:
as long as your file is a standard swf you should have no problems using it… so the answer is yes. Anyway, I don’t know about interactivity (if your pages for example contains links to other pages), but you can always recreate it within the flip book if you want, using for example area modules.

You can disable almost every single feature (so for example the print button as well) just by setting an option in the XML .

Hi jflorido, thanks for your purchase!

I cannot help you with Moto CSM , since I have never used it and so I don’t know how it works, but I am pretty sure you should be able to include Power Book within it, as a standard swf or even using the swc component maybe… but there should be no problem since it is just a standard Flash application like the others.

since you have recompiled the swf it must be related to the fonts you have installed on your system.

Have you installed Myriad Web on your computer before recompiling the swf?
Can you please check the “font embedding” panel in the fla (Text > Font Embedding…) if the “Myriad Web” font (normal, bold and italic) has all the characters with accents included in the list on the right?
Alternatively you can also try creating your swf starting from the fla with Arial font (instead of Myriad Web)

Hi, I apologize for the delay of my answer. I cannot get online during last week

About custom buttons
when you add a “custom_button” to the toolbar (adding it to the “Interface” node in global.xml) you can link it to a book page to open, to an external link or to a javascript callback.
So, you cannot open a second Info window, unless you create it using javascript (so you can for example open an html lightbox-popup just using javascript, put your code within a function, and then call that function/callback with your custom button).

Hi CokeCancino, thanks for your purchase and appreciation!

You can add custom buttons in the toolbar from the global XML , but they can only make the book jump to a particular page, open an external link or call a javascript callback (page 11 of the help manual for more info).

In your case I can only think of 2 solutions at the moment:
if you Flash application is running within a browser you can use the built-in custom buttons and then call a javascript callback (which is actually just a javascript function active in your html page). From this js function you can then call a function of your main Flash application (just registering a Flash function in your application as an external callback). It is a sort double passage, but it should work.
If, instead, you are not running your main Flash application in a browser (so the swf is not run from an html page) the only solution is to add this button in your main Flash application directly and then overlay it on the Power Book application. It’s not the best solution but it’s reacher easy to implement.
Creating a custom button (with your custom function) WITHIN Power Book requires you to edit the Power Book classes (so to modify the interface and include a new button), which is not so straightforward.