Dynamic Book Template (version 3.0)

[Whilyam]

This is great! It works very nicely. The only problem nos is that the cover is not the one I (think I) referenced in the code.

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AgeBooks = {'book': ('<cover src="fensbook"><margin right=32 left=32>', '<font size=14 face=Nick color=000000>', 0, 0, 'bkNotebook', 0.8, 1.0)}

"fensbook" is the texture used as the book's cover as the texture covering the book object in Blender.

[Whilyam]

Secondly, my text appears on the second page (right hand page) now. Is there any reason why this is happening?

[D'Lanor]

You need to give the full name of your image file otherwise it shows the default cover. If your texture is a jpg you would use fensbook.jpg or whatever you used as the original image.

The book always starts at the second page. That is the way i set it up. If you would use multiple sections they will be separated by a blank page. You can add your own new pages with <pb>.

Edit: Actually that is not true. You can delete the first "Pagestart" from your BookPages definition to make it start at page 1.

[Whilyam]

I thought of that and put in the extension as well but it shows up the same

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AgeBooks = {'book': ('<cover src="fensbook.png"><margin right=62 left=62>', '<font size=12 face=Nick color=000000>', 0, 0, 'bkNotebook', 0.8, 1.0)}

Also, why start on page 2? Every other journal starts on page 1. Is there any way to set it to start on page 1?

[D'Lanor]

I thought of that and put in the extension as well but it shows up the same

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AgeBooks = {'book': ('<cover src="fensbook.png"><margin right=62 left=62>', '<font size=12 face=Nick color=000000>', 0, 0, 'bkNotebook', 0.8, 1.0)}

Also, why start on page 2? Every other journal starts on page 1. Is there any way to set it to start on page 1?

Is that really the name of the texture? Python is case sensitive.

Reason to start on page 2: the template was originally designed for linking books and later became a combined linking book/journal template (mainly because I needed something like that myself). It can be changed. See the edit in my previous post.

[Whilyam]

Woo hoo!

Stupid me.. the texture is "fenbook.png" not "fenSbook.ong"

Thanks again!

[Whilyam]

Now this is annoying. I made a second journal and coded it and it worked. I had two journals displaying two different things. Now, though, I can click on them, but the book never pops up and the code looks fine. What is going on here?

Edit: Here's something... The python log says:

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(04/23 19:10:31) Traceback (most recent call last):
(04/23 19:10:31)   File "C:/Work/Ages/Fens/FensBookGUI.py", line 38, in ?
(04/23 19:10:31)     modPageDefs = __import__('FensPageDefs')
(04/23 19:10:31)   File "C:/Work/Ages/Fens/FensPageDefs.py", line 59, in ?
(04/23 19:10:31)     BookPages = {'FensJournal': ((DefFensJournal % plyrName)), 
(04/23 19:10:31) TypeError: not all arguments converted
(04/23 19:10:31) Python file FensBookGUI.py was not found.
(04/23 19:10:31) __init__FensBookGUI v.3.0
(04/23 19:10:55) FensBookGUI: OnNotify called
(04/23 19:10:55) Someone clicked on object book
(04/23 19:10:55) It was you
(04/23 19:10:55) Trying book book with page(s) ['FensJournal']
(04/23 19:10:55) Match found! Start opening book...
(04/23 19:10:55) FensBookGUI: IOpenBook: Page(s) requested ['FensJournal']
(04/23 19:10:55) Traceback (most recent call last):
(04/23 19:10:55)   File "C:/Work/Ages/Fens/FensBookGUI.py", line 61, in OnNotify
(04/23 19:10:55)     self.IOpenBook(a, b)
(04/23 19:10:55)   File "C:/Work/Ages/Fens/FensBookGUI.py", line 122, in IOpenBook
(04/23 19:10:55)     if (not (bkPage in modPageDefs.LinkDestinations)):
(04/23 19:10:55) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'LinkDestinations'
(04/23 19:10:56) FensBookGUI: OnNotify called
(04/23 19:10:58) FensBookGUI: OnNotify called
(04/23 19:10:58) Someone clicked on object book
(04/23 19:10:58) It was you
(04/23 19:10:58) Trying book book with page(s) ['FensJournal']
(04/23 19:10:58) Match found! Start opening book...
(04/23 19:10:58) FensBookGUI: IOpenBook: Page(s) requested ['FensJournal']
(04/23 19:10:58) Traceback (most recent call last):
(04/23 19:10:58)   File "C:/Work/Ages/Fens/FensBookGUI.py", line 61, in OnNotify
(04/23 19:10:58)     self.IOpenBook(a, b)
(04/23 19:10:58)   File "C:/Work/Ages/Fens/FensBookGUI.py", line 122, in IOpenBook
(04/23 19:10:58)     if (not (bkPage in modPageDefs.LinkDestinations)):
(04/23 19:10:58) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'LinkDestinations'
(04/23 19:10:58) FensBookGUI: OnNotify called

[D'Lanor]

You need to get rid of the % plyrName. Unless you really want the journal to display the player's name. In that case you need to code a %s at the spot where you want the name to appear in the journal.

[Whilyam]

Wow. That worked. Wonder why it never stopped it before. Thanks again (I'll be back when the next thing explodes )

[andylegate]

With any kind of clickable "explode" is more often than not, so see you soon!