Hey guys, I'm using this fantastic ipad story book plugin. I'd like to have the sound play automatically when you open the screen, and even have it stop when you change page. Has anyone been around this? Thanks. Miguel

Miguel, great ideas. And not hard to accomplish. I'll show you the first part (play automatically), then I'll double check the second part (stop when you change page). To get the sound file to automatically play: Open Xcode, and find the ipad_story_book_page.m file. (in your plugins folder) Copy/paste these lines of code at the bottom of your viewWillAppear method: //Plays MP3 sound effect - The MP3 file must be added to the sound array in the appDelegate (around line 900) [appDelegate playSoundEffect:[BT_strings getJsonPropertyValue:self.screenData.jsonVars:@"sbInteractionSound":@""]]; that should get pasted around line 219, but BEFORE the closing brace } That will automatically play the sound that you've assigned to the Interactive Button, even if you decide not to include the button. That way you can have a sound file play when the user turns the page (for example, to have a narrator read the story from the page every time you turn the page.) Hope that helps. Let me get some code together for the second part. -Chris

Thats just what I need. Thanks stobe. Cheers. Miguel

The other part brings some complications because of how the ipad uses sound channels. I have a way to stop the existing sound when you turn the page (which will fire the next sound, obviously). But if you turn the page back, it will continue to play the first sound from where it left off. For example: -I fire up the app and browse to page one -Page One starts to play my 2 minute sound file -After 1 minute, I turn to page 2. -Page 2 starts playing a 2 minute sound file -If I click "Back" to page 1, I'll hear the original sound file, starting in the middle of the sound. -And If I click "Next" to page 2, it will start in the middle also. If this is acceptable, I can give you the code for that. Otherwise, I'll have to go back to the drawing board on how to load and play the sound files. -Chris

Can I use multiple page pdfs with ipad storybook?

@feraco, The plugin is setup to use simple background images for each page. You'd have to export the PDF pages individually as images, and format the to the correct size for the plugin. There should be programs what export multi-page PDFs as images, if you're dealing with large PDFs.

Hi stobe, that is acceptable. If you could share that code, it would be great. Thanks.