lvbook applet - by lvplanet

lvbook allows you to display a collection of images in a virtual photo album with turnable pages. You can either show small thumbnails and link to the corresponding big images, or show the big ones directly (well, as big as possible: remember that most people use an 800x600 screen resolution). A good feature of this applet is the automatic preloading of the images to be displayed.

You can configure these parameters:

Image# - set a parameter for any image you want to add to your virtual book. Remember to change the # with a progressive number: please look at the example code. You can add a caption, the URL of the link and the name of the destination frame. This is the format:

file name + separator + caption + separator + URL + separator + target

where "separator" is a comma (,) unless specified differently using the Separator parameter (e.g. if you need to use commas in some caption). For example:

<param name="Image7" value="ny.jpg,New York At Night,http://www.newyorkcity.com,_top">

If you need to skip a value, but not the next one, please leave a blank space between the two commas. This bug will be fixed in a future release. This is an example of image without caption and with URL:

<param name="Image18" value="ba.jpg, ,http://www.buenosaires.ar,_blank">

ShrinkImages - allow you to resize the images automatically to fit the pages. The value can be Yes or No (default)

EffectDuration - sets the time required to turn a page (in milliseconds)

PauseDuration - set the minimum pause before turning a page (in milliseconds). Set it to 0 to avoid automatic page turning

TopMargin, BottomMargin, InnerMargin, OuterMargin - set the margins of the pages (in pixels), i.e. the borders around the images and their captions

PageNumbers - allow you to show page numbers below the images. The value can be Yes (default) or No

Font - sets the captions' font. See above for an example. The format is:

type + separator + style + separator + size

where type can be Courier, Dialog, Helvetica or TimesRoman; style can be 0 (Normal), 1 (Italic), 2 (Bold) or 3 (BoldItalic); size is an integer. The default is Dialog,0,12.

CaptionHeight - sets the reserved height for the caption (in pixels)

CacheSize - sets the size of an internal cache for the images. The default is 1 and usually this is the best choice

CacheAll - allow you to cache all the images. The value can be Yes or No (default). It's a good idea to set it to Yes if you are using small thumbnails

Background1 - sets the paper color. The format is RRGGBB (similar to HTML). Look at the color table for some examples

Background2 - sets another paper color to obtain a fading between the two pages

Foreground - sets the text color

HandCursor - allow you to decide if the applet may display the hand-shaped cursor over the links or not. The value can be Yes (default) or No

SleepTime - sets a short pause between the animation frames. The default value is 10 and usually you don't need to change it

Target - sets the default destination frame for the links. This can avoid you to specify the same name in every link

Credits - please set it to applet bt www.lvplanet.com as a credit for the author. Thank you! (This is required if you use this applet on the web)

Note: the names of their parameters and their values are case-insensitive, with the exception of the font names (Courier, Dialog, Helvetica and TimesRoman) and of the Credits value.

Thanks for using lvbook
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