I played with krpano a bit



I managed to place panorama and spots inside a frame (the frame is not a spot), so I could place them inside my pano flip book, but the panorama keeps resizing on window resize, well it is quite normal I guess, as krpano is not supposed to be loaded into another swf file (as I read on the forum - this is thought to be implemented in version 1.09, as we have 1.08 beta we can expect 1.09 maybe in a year or so).



I could actually keep resizing panorama back, but it doesn't really make sense.



I wrote to Klaus if we could work something out, but I got no answer so far.



so maybe this way, through the forum, I will ask, how can I stop resizing panorama? is it possible?



area.pixelwidth - can resize hotspots container but it has no effect on panorama (I had to move panorama to get a center point in the center of the frame) - is there a setting that would set panorama display window to what we want?



the panorama is huge, around 2000-3000px width depending on window size, how to control the size of panorama ? actually the size of the Sprite the panorama is in? or how to control the size of what we see?



well, krpano will not work with pano flip book until there are real tools to resize panorama and spots containers and they are know





Darek

Hi Klause,



thank you, I just found some more info about "area" and did this (jpg attached)

I used krpano 1.0.8 beta 9



this seems like it may be possible to make krpano working with the book, I will give it a try when I have some time, it took me all day yesterday to find a way to place krpano inside the frame (I have to do it as I need to place krpano inside the book)



I am quite new to krpano, I will appreciate additional help, Klaus, can you? via mail?



Darek

ok, thanks



Darek

is it possible to make these 2 actions one action?

pano("area.width", 700);
pano("area.height", 500);



Darek

it is as3



thanks, that will help



Darek

it wasn't a good idea, after some thoughs I gave it up, not all krpano feature could be placed in another container,

we are trying to work out with Klaus a way to be able to do that the right way



Darek

I am working on version 2 of the Pano Flip Book, there will be lots of changes in that version, one of them is that the book can be imported into another panorama player, so far I did it for FPP, take a look:



and some more info here: http://flashpanoramas.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2826

now I will do that for KRPano - you will be able to import the book as krpano plugin

at this moment it is not possible to import krpano into another movieclip, when this is possible I will make krpano a book player too

by the way, the above photo shows 2 screens, on each of them 2 panoramas are displaying, even though the book is imported into another player the book will have all the features including panorama display, version 2 will be able to place panorama dynamically in the book and outside the book

the book can also be dragged and you can easily remove any element of the book by just not including a plugin element, version 2 moved all elements into plugins, here are plugins I created:



<plugin layer = "0" path="plugins/Preloader.swf" />
<plugin layer = "2" path="plugins/BitmapBackground.swf" />
<plugin layer = "4" path="plugins/Background.swf" />
<plugin layer = "6" path="plugins/FPPPlayer.swf" />
<plugin layer = "8" path="plugins/BottomStrip.swf" />
<plugin layer = "10" path="plugins/GoToPageButtons.swf" />
<plugin layer = "12" path="plugins/PDFButton.swf" />
<plugin layer = "14" path="plugins/BookPDF.swf"/>
<plugin layer = "16" path="book" position = "CC" x = "0" y = "0"/>
<plugin layer = "20" path="plugins/Logo.swf" position = "TC" x = "-200" y = "20" />
<plugin layer = "20" path="plugins/FullscreenButton.swf" position = "BR" x = "150" y = "40" />
<plugin layer = "22" path="plugins/MusicPlayer.swf"/>
<plugin layer = "24" path="plugins/AutoFlip.swf" position = "BL" x = "30" y = "23" />
<plugin layer = "20" path="plugins/PageThumbs.swf" />



the book's plugin structure will allow you to create your own plugins, plugins can contact each other and the book - this allows you to create a plugin that will react on other plugin behavior, for example plugin background has a clip that moves its object (a playing man) when musicplayer plugin is turned on or off the man starts or stops playing



also version 2 has thumbs for pages that can be set in many ways like a gallery and it can generate real pdf from the book - what you see in the book will be generated in the pdf, you can see it here: http://pano-flip-book.com/bookimages/PanoFlipBook.pdf

Pano Flip Book version 2 will be able to load into krpano as plugin





it will have all features, one of them is a panorama inside or outside the book, the greyish top part of the screen is a panorama loaded into the book, it can be placed inside the book too, so one virtual tour can have 2 panoramas at the same time, the panorama inside the book is FPP driven only at this moment



here is a line in the krpano xml to load the book into krpano: <plugin name="PanoFlipBook" url="panoFlipBook.swf" keep="true" handcursor="false"/>



it is possible to send commands from the book to krpano, using krpano actions, more less they look like this: action = "internal:krpano.call(loadPano(null,cubestrip=pano.jpg););" with this line I load a panorama taken from the demo, this action is part of an external plugin - just simple swf file that says "go to cover" (bottom right corner), the spot looks like this in the book xml file: <plugin layer = "18" path="plugins/goToCover.swf" position = "BR" x = "77" y = "100" action = "internal:krpano.call(loadPano(null,cubestrip=pano.jpg););" button = "true" />

I have finished work on version 2, I need to do some tests on a server and it is done



pano flip book works as a plugin for krpano and fpp and works on its own too, it also displays panoramas inside or outside the book - in this case the player is fpp as krpano can't be loaded into another swf file



Darek

the book will have a feature to resize itself to desired percentage of stage width or stage height

Hi
The book version 2 is nearly ready
if someone is interested how it works here are the links to test version:
book loaded into FPP (the same can be done with krpano): http://pano-flip-book.com/test_v2/
the book on its own (I changed some settings but both links open the same panoFlipBook.swf file): http://pano-flip-book.com/test_v2/index_book.htm



shall finish my tests soon and the book will be ready

I need help



so far I registered krpano in the book and can call krpano functions from the book, but it doesn't work the other way



reading documentation I can register the book plugin like this:



krpano = krpano_as3_interface.getInstance();
krpano.addPluginEventListener(this, krpano_as3_interface.PLUGINEVENT_REGISTER, this.registerEvent);



then with this function I can register the book plugin with krpano:



function registerEvent(event:DataEvent):void
{
var plugin_path : String = event.data;
var plugin_object : Object = krpano.get(plugin_path);
}




there is also plugin update event:

krpano_as3_interface.PLUGINEVENT_UPDATE



function updateEvent(dataevent:DataEvent):void
{
var updatedattriubte:String = dataevent.data;

if ( updatedattriubte == "color" )
{
callInternalFunction(plugin_object.color);
}
}



I understand that if a string is color then I can call plugin_object.color VALUE



and here is my question:

if I write in krpano xml file

plugin[book].color(the value passed as string);



what I need is to pass a value to the book


will it work?