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Technical Support (AS3 / JS / ASUL) / Re: Page flip embedded in d space

« Last post by acidhoh on March 11, 2013, 11:06:43 pm »

Thank you very much for your time and for the tips !!!

The concept is to do it with the page flip method ..
I wiil see what i can do

Thanks again !!

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Technical Support (AS3 / JS / ASUL) / Re: Page flip embedded in d space

« Last post by Hans Nücke on March 08, 2013, 11:25:30 pm »

The first challenge I see is that MegaZine3 cannot present PDF files directly.
The "standard" way is to convert those documents first (preferably to SFW files because then text is available as vector font, but also to an image format like JPG or PNG).

If single pages can be stored in the Dspace database, it would be possible to create MegaZine3 books dynamically, e.g. with a PHP or Python or... script.
Once the PDF files are converted and the single pages saved in a database, together with a reasonable number of key words, I could imagine a script performing these steps:
- collect the key words (simple form)
- perform an SQL request (based on the provided key words used as index or filter; like author, title, date, key words, ....)
- saving the "pages" collected as result of such SQL request somewhere (e.g. in a temporary folder) for the duration of the session
- creating the megazine.mz3 XML file, that controls MegaZine3 and represents the "book", based on a template. Then only the links to the collected pages in the temporary folder had to be inserted into the template.

From that point on a (temporary, dynamically created MegaZine3) title is available for the user and could be worked on; as every other (static) title.

I do not know enough about Dspace, so I cannot tell if it is possible to link a database to the system or Dspace is such database, and if single pages could be saved instead of complete files, or simple references could be used, or ...
But hopefully this gives you an idea about one potential option.

The key concept to keep in mind is that MegaZine3 can be completely controlled via XML file(s). And provides a very powerful API, which supports almost every concept to make it part of whatever workflow.

But most probably a simple PDF viewer is your better option ;-)

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Technical Support (AS3 / JS / ASUL) / Re: Page flip embedded in d space

« Last post by acidhoh on March 08, 2013, 08:03:41 pm »

At first thanks  for the reply. Yes i am talking about dspace.org

You are right about what dspace is and you are also right in what i am trying to do ..

Dspace  in the way i modified it has as documents/items ,pdf type of files .
What i am trying to make is, the user to view these documents with a page flip format.

Is it possibilile for Megazine3 to work as a "plugin" for this type of open source systems?

Thank you !!

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Technical Support (AS3 / JS / ASUL) / Re: Page flip embedded in d space

« Last post by Hans Nücke on March 08, 2013, 06:53:55 pm »

I assume you're talking about http://www.dspace.org (and not www.dspace.de ;-)

I checked the website briefly and what I understood Dspace is kind of open source document management system?
I could not find an overview about any API. So any more details about how you envision to combine/integrate MegaZine3 with Dspace would be very helpful.

I assume you're interested in using MegaZine3 like a viewer for Dspace content?

Sorry for asking more questions than providing answers...

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Technical Support (AS3 / JS / ASUL) / Page flip embedded in d space

« Last post by acidhoh on March 08, 2013, 05:18:26 pm »

Hallo all !!

As the title says . Is is possible to embed  page flip  into Dspace metadata ?

Or has anyone done something similar ? (combining megazine with Dspace)

Thank you ..

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General Discussion / Re: Server memory consumption !

« Last post by lemonrob on March 02, 2013, 12:07:28 am »

It will not make overload on server data. Server provides data only as Hans said.

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Technical Support (AS3 / JS / ASUL) / General problem with AS3 in Megazine3?

« Last post by Tipo on February 23, 2013, 06:06:28 pm »

Hello,

I begin to wonder if there is a general problem with ActionScript 3 here?

At first I started to create a little game with AS3, Flex and the IDE Flash Developer.
But when I tried to implement that game in my book, I got a visual problem.
Instead of showing my game I've got another smaller version of my book inside that page. Creepy!

So, I started to ask here and the answer was that Flex takes the predominance of the book and so won't work in the book.
Ok! Bad for me. 

Next try.
No Flex, no Flash Developer.
I installed the 30 days trial of Flash Professional and builded a little quiz with AS3.
Therefor I have:
- Quiz.fla --> empty document
- Main.as --> created under the stage properties at the point "Class"

No errors in Flash while I test the scene. Great.
Next step was publish it and copy the SWF-File into my book-folder.
And again, instead of my Flash-Document I got an extra book inside my page.
So I deleted line by line in my "Main.as", published it and tried again. But it didn't work.
With a barely naked "Main.as" my book shows 4 dots like a loading action but that's all. These dots run from 1 to 4 visible dots and don't stop.
Also in the console is no hint for an error.

So last step I deleted the link to the "Main.as" from my "Quiz.fla", published and copied it into my book-folder.
And ... wonder ... it works.

My question now, is this only a local problem on my PC?
Or does anyone else have problems with AS3-Class and Megazine3?

I really despair of this problem! 
I don't understand why I can't use AS3 code in my book.

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General Discussion / Making Pages Bigger

« Last post by Bnathan on February 22, 2013, 04:03:47 pm »

I'm a rank newbie, and I'm trying to find if our "basic" version can have larger pages than the default size. I stumbled on this reply for Florian on a very old post, but it appears to address what I'd like to do. Can anyone offer further information on this topic? Here's the line that I found so close to the answer , but I don't know where these attributes can be changed in our version:

"Via the attributes chapter@pagewidth, chapter@pageheight / page@width, page@height / spreadpage@width, spreadpage@height as mentioned in the version history. Will document them in detail when I find the time, although the use should be pretty self-explaining."

These appear to be the exact attributes I want to manipulate. Any further info?

My apologies if I missed this answer somewhere else...

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General Discussion / Re: How to generate dynamic data

« Last post by Bnathan on February 22, 2013, 03:57:08 pm »

I'd like some more information on this too, please!

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Technical Support (AS3 / JS / ASUL) / Re: customize the navigation bar (Link list to related WIKI articles)

« Last post by Hans Nücke on February 21, 2013, 06:03:55 pm »

Oops, sorry. That was a link to an old, outdated collection of pages, which I did not delete yet; but made them invisible ;-)

Here a link list to related articles in the WIKI (unprotected ;-). This at the end was what you had found udner the provided link:
ASUL Overview
ASUL Example, editing the GUI
ASUL Document, styles and scripting
ASUL Layouting, how to position and size elements
ASUL Elements,  list of all allowed elements like anchors or height
ASUL Scripting, how to use ActionScript3 command within an ASUL box