Jul 30
Due to illness Bill will be unavailable for a couple of months. Please leave comments and I will answer them for him. It could take three to four days before you get an answer.
Carolyn
May 28
It doesn’t look like much, just a button with the word ‘Special’ written on it. That’s just because I haven’t come up with a kool image to use it yet. This button will eventually allow you to easily add almost anything to a page in your book.
This button will let you use any ‘plugin’ that has been developed to work with a tobors book. Adding a video to a page was very easy to do. It uses a specialized ‘plugin’ that I developed for video (because everyone is into online video these days). Continue reading »
May 28
The button with the video displayed on it is obviously the button that you use to add a video to a page in your story.
The only video format that you can use is FLV (FLash Video) files. This is the same type of video files that most sites on the web already use (e.g. Youtube).
For this lesson, I will assume that you have an FLV video file that you can use. We won’t get into how to change a different type of video file to an FLV file here.
When you click the button, a window opens up to let you browser your computer to find an FLV file. If you don’t have one, you can use the one in the images folder in the I_Like_to_Paint folder. It’s the one that comes with the sample book.
All you have to do is select your video and it will be put right into the book. When you save the page, the video file is saved with it. That’s all there is to it.
May 27
We have discussed three of the six Image Buttons. They were the three located in the top row. The button with the silhouette of a walking man is the Animation Button.
What will it do?
By clicking this button, you will be able to add a Flash animation to the Image area of any page in your book.As a result, and the Image portion of any page in your book is not limited to being a static image. Continue reading »
May 27
Hmm, the third Image Button has the kitty cat picture with some crayons ON TOP of it. The button with just the cat on it is used to add a picture to a page in your story. The button with the crayons on it allows you to make a drawing for the page.
What does this button let you do?
It will let you draw on top of an image. Continue reading »
May 27
In a previous posting, I explained how to add an image to a page in your Tobors Books. This time, I will tell you how you can have your child draw his or her own pictures for their books.
The button to use to do this is the one that looks like three crayons.
When you click it, the picture portion of the Page Area of BookMaker will be blank and the area beneath it (on the right side of the screen) will look something like this.
This is not a sophisticated drawing program. It is meant to allow a child to create a simple image on his/her own. Continue reading »
May 25
In this posting I am going to explain to you exactly how to create a typical (generic) page for a Tobors Book.
There are 5 Tab Buttons across the top. Four of them are numbered, for convenience sake. The Select Panel is what was displayed when you started Tobors BookMaker. It gave you three possible choices: NEW, CHANGE and COPY. They have already been explained. Continue reading »
May 25
The final button you can choose when you have started Tobors BookMaker is the COPY or TEMPLATE Button. If you click this button, you can make a copy of any Tobors Book that you have on your computer. You WILL be making a NEW Book that is a COPY of one of the old boks on your computer.
Why would you want to do that? There are a couple of reasons. Continue reading »
May 25
The second choice you have when you start Tobors BookMaker is to CHANGE or EDIT a book that already exists.
When you click this button, you will be shown a visual menu in the centre area of the screen. It will be a scrollable ‘list’ of the book cover images of all of the Tobors Books that you have on your computer. Continue reading »
May 25
The first thing that you will have to do when you start to write a Tobors Book is decide whether you want to write a NEW book, CHANGE a book that already exists, or COPY a book. Here’s what thse three buttons look like. Each of them have a simple animation that happens when you move your mouse over them to try to simplify things for a child. Tobors BookMaker also includes audio help to make it easier for children. The audio help can be aggravating at times, so it is turned OFF by default.
