David,

first question

I searched and did not see any posts that had the answer already, I have read the new Comics SDK PDF and am working through the template that comes with it.

First, thanks to David Fox of Electric Eggplant for creating this and sharing to the community!

Second, currently I am unable to increase the amount of pages in the comic app past 18pgs.
I have set "lite version" to false thinking that would change the maxPage to 44 as I see the full version is set to maxPage = 44, I have looked through files main, coordinates & reader and have still not found the settings I need to change.

I know it is there I will keep looking and if I find solution will share.

second question

Is it possible, when the app zooms in on a frame and the rest of the screen goes black, to adjust the opacity so it doesn't go totally black? but that one would be able to see surrounding artwork but readers focus would be on the frame we have chosen?

thanks in advance

Both of your explanations worked,

thank you!

DavidBFox,

Where are the chapters Page defined on the menu/info page?

I found this section but I don't see where each page # is defined with the corresponding chapter:

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-- Send us to the correct page when Chapter button is tapped
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thanks

Hello,
Can you please give me a link on CoronaComicsCoordCreator. In pdf file links don't work.

Thanks!

@DavidBFox
Thank you very much!Really fast reply ;)

For easier organization, you could try putting them in groups. Put the visible and invisible object in the same group. And now when you want to manipulate or reference the group, both items should be affected.

You would have to change the listener to the invisible object, since that is what you want to register the touch event. And if you are not using an event.target reference in your event listener, I would think your code would remain the same.Dell Inspiron 15RN i15RN//Dell D600 Laptop//Toshiba Portege R835 P81//Toshiba Portg R835 //Apple MacBook Air MC969LLA//Toshiba Portg R835//

Interested in two things

- words on how I would begin to make changes between pages so they "slide" from image to image as opposed to the next page simply "appearing".

- would like direction on how I would start adding to this code base to add support for making the App Universal, currently only for iPad and nook? (want to work on iPhone testing s far fails after build)

thanks

Hi david,

Thank for posting and sharing the wonderful code base.

I have two questions:

1. How do i disable the zoom which occurs on touching each panel? What i want is the comic to remain hidden and appear frame by frame. When the user wants to move from one frame to another i want the earlier frame to remain on screen in a diff shade of transparency.

2. can i have a background on which i can draw the frames? how do i do that?

Thanks a lot in advance for any direction or pointers for these.

Ed Brindle passed this tip along. He was having trouble getting the rotations to work properly on Android devices until he changed the build.settings code to this:

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settings =
{
       orientation =
       {
               default = "portrait",
               content = "portrait",
               supported = { "portrait", "portraitUpsideDown" }
       },

He confirmed that the app runs will with the new Android tablets (Xoom, and Asus) and even with v4 ics (ice cream sandwich).

Thanks Ed!

umeshukla, a sprite sheet creation program like Zwoptex takes your images and figures out the best way to arrange them in a file so they'll all fit. The location of your images in the sheet is irrelevent to you. Think of it as a big jigsaw puzzle that Zwoptex solves for optimum placement.

The dimensions of the file just have to be large enough to barely hold your images. That's one thing I don't like about the program... if it's smart enough to figure out where to put your images, maybe it should be smart enough to determine the optimal sprite sheet dimensions to get them all to fit. But now you have to do that manually. I usually start with 1024x1024 and see if that works. If they don't all fit, I move to 1024x2048 or 2048x1024. If they fit in 1024x1024, I'll see if I can reduce one of the dimensions to 512 and see if it still works.

Zwoptex outputs 2 files... the actual sheet with your images in it (.png), and a .lua file that's the key to the location of your images. The .lua file is the map which Reader.lua uses to select each image. The .lua file needs to go in your root directroy of your app (where your main.lua file is). The simulator seems to be able to read it from a subdirectory, but last time I tried, when you install the app on an iOS device, it fails.

I'm sure there's lots of documentation on the Zwoptex site on how to do this.

Hope this helps!

Can this SDK work with "director" or "storyboard" to view more than 1 comic in a single app?

I dont know if anyone is still checking this but…Ive been using the SDK and STILL cant manage to get my word bubbles to line up into their proper place. Im able to extract coordinates and order them, no problem using Zwoptex but…nothing I try works. If anyone can point me at a solution Id be most grateful.

Thanks

Micheline

Hi David,
Its so weird. Ive dutifully collected the coordinates using the CCCC, and have only been using Zwoptex to to cram the word bubbles onto a appropriately sized spritesheet.

But the layout only seems to work on maybe 2 out of 21 pages. The zoom in almost never works though. I wonder if there's something else going on that's throwing it off.

I so wanted the balloons functionality to happen but if Im going to be ready in time for MoCCA with a demo I might have to just bite it and merge word bubbles with each panel this time :P

Thanks so much for making this available to everyone. Its been challenging for a n0ob like me but Im really inspired! Link to my project journal below:

http://www.kuronekko.com/first-build/

Hi

Thank you so much for suggesting this...I think that might be the problem (or at least one of them..lol)

Im going to try this and I'll let you know if it works or not.

Thanks for the help,

Mich

MIch, happy to take a look. Zip it all up and give me a URL I can download it from. And tell me which pages you're having problems with.

MIch, ok I downloaded it. Will take a look later today. Want to give me your email address so we can take the discussion offline for now?