Infinite Canvas
Documentation

Introduction

Adding Panels To The Canvas

Working With Trails

Adding A Convenient Navigation

Publish Your Comic

 

Export

Publishing you comic is as easy as creating it. Just select the main-menu item "File > Export ...". A new sheet will appear at the top of the window.


If you like you can customize some attributes of the resulting website. To continue press the Export button. The Application will place your comic, the Java Applet, the loading image and a sample website in the selected directory. I recommend specifying a loading image. Just drag an image onto the container. For better results make sure that the image has the same size as the applet (default 400x400 pixel).

 

The Infinite Canvas Applet

You can also integrate your Comic and the Infinite Canvas Applet easily in any existing website. All you need to do is to open the sample website in your favorite text editor and copy the APPLET-section into your website. (Note: By default Apples TextEdit doesn't show the html-code. You have to check the "Ignore rich text commands in HTML files"-button in TextEdits preferences.)

Example Website

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My first Comic</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR=#ffffff TEXT=#666666>
<CENTER>
<br><h1>My first Comic</h1><br>


<APPLET archive="InfiniteCanvasApplet.jar" codebase="." code="InfiniteCanvasApplet.class" width=400 height=440>
<PARAM name="document" value="ic-ressources">
<PARAM name="SplashImage" value="splash.jpg">
<PARAM name="R" value="255">
<PARAM name="G" value="255">
<PARAM name="B" value="255">
<PARAM name="NavigationButtons" value="YES">
<b>Your browser does not support Java, so nothing is displayed.</b>
</APPLET>



</CENTER>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Finally you can influence the applets behavior by manipulating its parameters. Currently the applet supports the following parameters:

  • document: with this parameter you specify the folder containing the comic.xml. This is the only required parameter. The applet won't load without it. (Note: In older versions document specified the path to the *.ic document. In this version there is a new, smaller export format. You create this formate by using Export!)
  • SplashImage: the relative path to the splash image
  • R: the red component of the background color while loading (values between 0-255)
  • G: the green component of the background color while loading (values between 0-255)
  • B: the blue component of the background color while loading (values between 0-255)
  • navigationButtons: show navigation buttons (back, forward, zoome, rotate, ...) (values: YES or NO)