Remove question mark in background

[MegaMan]

Hi,

When a page is not in memory it displays a question mark on the page until it is loaded, how can i remove this so that the page is just blank?

Thanks,
Megaman

[MegaMan]

Any hints on this?

[Hans Nücke]

Actually that is not possible.
One approach (intermediate work around) could be to crety a file with all thum nails offline and provide that for download when the book starts.
This will delay the start a bit, but then there would be at least a preview available immediately; on the "?" do not pop up.

For details see here:
http://megazine.mightypirates.de/wiki/index.php/Book#thumbpath

You can decide what images to load; could be simply the page background. Which should result in a smaller sized file with shorted load times.
You also can parameterize the thumbscale (next parameter at above link) and with that control the qualty/resolution/size.

Just an idea...

[MegaMan]

Surely somewhere the question mark must be set to display in the classes?
I don't believe this is a flash feature. I looked through the classes but not really sure where it would be defined.

[MPete]

I guess as Hans suggested, the way I would do it is load a single thumbnail image in place of the question mark - this means matching the background below as it's not showing nothing.... it would probably be good to be able to switch this off, I think it's only a recent version that introduced this isn't it, I didn't notice it previously?

[Florian Nücke]

I'll add a parameter for the next version that lets you changed the displayed "text" (which will default to the question mark).
So you can then just set it to an empty string, effectively removing the question mark.

[MegaMan]

Awesome, thanks!

[qdxhs]

I'll add a parameter for the next version that lets you changed the displayed "text" (which will default to the question mark).
So you can then just set it to an empty string, effectively removing the question mark.

Is this parameter added or not? What is it?

[qdxhs]

One approach (intermediate work around) could be to crety a file with all thum nails offline and provide that for download when the book starts.
This will delay the start a bit, but then there would be at least a preview available immediately; on the "?" do not pop up.
You can decide what images to load; could be simply the page background. Which should result in a smaller sized file with shorted load times.
You also can parameterize the thumbscale (next parameter at above link) and with that control the qualty/resolution/size.

This trick not fully works...
If I jump to some page by clicking bubbles on nav bar, I can see thumb image in my thumbpath in stead of "?". But if I use bookmarks or just flip one page by one page, the "?" still there.

[Florian Nücke]

I'll add a parameter for the next version that lets you changed the displayed "text" (which will default to the question mark).
So you can then just set it to an empty string, effectively removing the question mark.

Is this parameter added or not? What is it?

http://www.megazine3.de/wiki/index.php/Book#thumbloadtext