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Page > Jump UI enhancement

Charmaine Anderson 12 years ago updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 12 years ago 0

Please consider making the Jump behavior accessible from the top Behavior level rather than having to drill through Page > Jump to define a page number.  (One less step for developers and will save us time, and hand fatigue!)  Thanks.

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What we might do is provide the user the ability to keep a list of favorite behaviors, moving it to the top level is not possible because the top level is used for behavior categories.

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About publishing fees

Truman Kong 11 years ago updated by Inna Komarovsky 11 years ago 3
Our company has a collection of 90 children books. We are planning to convert them to e-books using your Application. However, if I make an App for each books, does it mean that I have to paid $99 for each book. In order to publish all of them, that could cost a fortune. 

An App for a book (which is only 7-10 pages each), am I thinking it correctly? Or am I misunderstanding the concept of an App?
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Inna Komarovsky 11 years ago
Hi Truman,
If each app is relatively short or simple, one option would be to combine a group of them into one app. Maybe if ten of the apps are about a specific topic, you could have an app that has something like a library of those ten books, which would actually all be in the same app. This can also make the app feel more substantial and layered for the end user and worth the price.

The $299 yearly publishing membership does cover one app per year, and the $99 per additional app is for the process of having the additional apps submitted to the app marketplaces. If you use your own developer account instead of ours and submit your InteractBuilder apps yourself, the additional fee does not apply.

Just to clarify since you used the terms "e-book" as well as "app," the main difference between the two is that an app can have many more features like animation, sound effects, video, drawing, and more, while an e-book is usually simply for reading on an e-reader or other device. Some enhanced e-books have more options like simple animations and audio, but apps usually represent a more flexible range of functionality and interactivity. InteractBuilder creates apps and allows for many interactive options.

I hope this helps!
Inna
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Ken Burns Effect

Ted Ollikkala 11 years ago updated by Inna Komarovsky 11 years ago 14
Is it possible to have a timed slow motion 'pan & zoom' effect on a photo (called the Ken Burns Effect)? It would really hold the interest of a user, especially during narration :-) Thanks!
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Planned

template suggestion

Melissa Lind 12 years ago updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 12 years ago 2
Hey guys,

So, I'm going through my files to make sure the app is clean and quick. I used a drawing set  that is the same on every page with the template option. Now I've got 12 copies of all of the10 elements that I imported with the template. I don't know if it's possible, but it would be great if they could use the same file in future updates.

Thanks!
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There is no current way to erase references to audio files at this time.
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Declined

add iphone photo directly into app

Ann K AlteredEssence 12 years ago updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 12 years ago 0

If there isn't a way already that I am not aware of (if there is please tell me) I would like you to consider a way to add a photo taken from an iphone and have it automatically put it into a location on a page in an app.

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If you use the InteractBuilder on the iPad (soon to be released), you can import photos directly from the photo album, we do intend to release the InteractBuilder on the iPhone as well, so you will be able to do the same thing directly on your iPhone.

  

We have no plan integrating the desktop version with a smartphone at this time.

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Not a bug

Show at Tap not working

Charmaine Anderson 12 years ago updated by Alin Alexandru Matei 12 years ago 0

Show at Tap doesn't work when I set an action on an animated graphic  element  (which has a transition that resolves into place) to on Tap > Show at Tap > a separate Text element.  (The text element is hidden until it is revealed on tap.)  


When I tap the animated element in Interact mode, the animated element jumps a little distance on screen (not desired) but the targeted text element that I want to show at top remains hidden and doesn't display.  

Expectation is that Show At Tap should reveal the targeted hidden element in interact mode.  (I'm using a Macbook Pro).

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Alin Alexandru Matei 12 years ago

Show at Tap is ment for the element on which the behavior is set. So if you have Show at Tap on the frame element that will Show when you Tap it. I suggest using simple Tap-Show.

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How to Stop Narration on all pages?

Charmaine Anderson 12 years ago updated by Alin Alexandru Matei 12 years ago 0
I would like to be able to allow user to Stop the Narration audio on all my pages using a "Read to Myself" button on the home screen.  Is there a way to do this?

I tried using the pause narration option, but that only woks on the the current screen.
I don't want them to have to keep clicking a pause audio button on every page as that would be annoying to end users. I want the background music and sound effects on other objects to still play, just pause the narration on all pages.

Thanks for your help.
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Alin Alexandru Matei 12 years ago
Hi Charmaine, for this situation you need a global counter on the first page of your app. Tapping the Read me On will make this Counter Value 1 ( by using a CounterSet behavior) and  tapping the Read me Off will make this Counter Value to 0 (by using a CounterSet behavior).
For every narration file that you have, on it's PlayAudio behavior you will need to set a condition: If the App counter <You global counter name> Value is 1.
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I have just downloaded the updated program- none of the dropdown menus are there!

cathy lane 12 years ago updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 12 years ago 0
downloaded the new program update- none of menus are there in full- long thin boxes? My books are there but no names are on them?
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I assume you are running on Windows.  Reboot your machine and start the InteractBuilder again, that should resolve your issues.
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Deleting an element in an action set error

Melissa Lind 12 years ago updated by Alin Alexandru Matei 12 years ago 2
I had two elements in an action set of 4. When I deleted one of them and went back into the action set, it still said there were 4 actions, but it would not let me delete the two that were unnecessary and gives me an error code. After this error the system slows to a crawl and I have to restart.
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Alin Alexandru Matei 12 years ago
Hi! When you say that you had two elements with an action set of four, do you mean that the two elements had the same four action sets? Was the unnecessary action set still there when you restarted the program? [Inna]
We were able to recreate this error and we are working to fix this. Thank you for poiting this out.
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Hi Robert,

The layout is the same for the free membership and the premium membership. What you have is InteractBuilder 4, while the webinar is showing InteractBuilder 3. The current version has many improvements and a few changes in the interface.

To create a play button, you can add an image or shape to the page and add an action set that makes a certain audio file play.
Here's some info from our user guide on how to add an element: Adding a New Element.
Here, you'll find information about adding an action set to an element: Creating a New Action Set.
To play audio, you can use the PlayAudio behavior (combined with the Tap interaction).

I hope this helps!
Inna