In the release of Imagevue beta 20080804, we added textpage support. With textpages, you can create text pages in the gallery. This could for example be contact information, about, or any other general information.

Examples

www.imagevuex.com/soda/#/content/Various%20Examples/textpages/mytextpage/ www.imagevuex.com/soda/?theme=bluedragon#/content/Various%20Examples/textpages/moreinfo/ www.imagevuex.com/soda/?theme=gardener#/content/Various%20Examples/textpages/links/
You can also browse within the folder various examples/textpages/ from the menu to see the examples.

How to create a textpage

To create a textpage, you need to login to your admin and create a folder just like you create a normal folder. After you have given it a name and it has been created, you need to click the checkbox "Use as text page". This will turn it into a textpage and you will see a field for "title" and a large field for "description". The title is simply the title/heading for the page, while the description is used for your actual textcontent. The description field supports html, but is limited.

How to create an external link in main menu

To create an external link in the main menu, follow the same procedure as above. In the dropdown box in the panel on the right hand side, select [use as "Link"], and fill in the fields on the resulting page: title, description and link. By default, links are opened in the same window as the imagevue gallery. If you want to set another target, you can add it after an *asterix symbol. For example:
[http://www.imagevuex.com*_blank] - Opens the link in a new/blank window.

Textpage HTML support

You can use html code in textpages, but support is limited to the flash players capabilities. Keep in mind, you can use CSS to style your pages instead of using tags(see next paragraph). The following tags are supported:
bold

paragraph
italic
underline
anchor(links)
font tag for setting size, color and typeface
image(jpg, gif, png, swf)

list
span
textformat

break

Find out more about Using HTML text formatting in Flash in the following links: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14808 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00001459.html http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=00001040.html

Using CSS

If you are aquinted with CSS, you can define your own styles in your theme stylesheet CSS file and use them in your text. For example:

Hello world!

Keep in mind that you have similar restriction for CSS as you have for the html tags. Read more:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=00001015.html

Changing the textpage configuration

There are a few added options in your theme configuration file, under "textpage" node. There are settings for width, margin, padding, backgroundcolor, opacity and shadow. Navigate to your theme in the admin theme editor and change the values from there.

Internal linking

Thanks to the SWFAddress module, you are able to create text links that go directly to specific images or folders within your gallery. This could for example be used to maintain a startpage or newspage, where you can link to your latest images, or latest folder. The links are entirely streamlined, and do not require page refresh. See an example of this below:
www.imagevuex.com/soda/?theme=gardener#/content/Various%20Examples/textpages/links/
To add internal links to your gallery, you can use the code as in these examples:

To access a specific image:

To access a specific folder

Embedding images and SWF files

You can embed images or swf files into your text by using the tag. We recommend storing your embedded files in the textpage folder that is actually using them. For example, if you want to display the image "mypicture.jpg" in your textpage "content/about/", you should place it inside that folder ... "content/about/mypicture.jpg". The code for embedding the image would then be:

Special modules

To add a contactform to any textpage, just use the "Insert Contact Form" button in WYSIWIG editor, which adds the following code in html:

Other issues to be aware of

# Make sure you use the width and height attributes when embedding an image, or it will make your textfield jump and possibly render incorrectly. # If you are going to use a custom embedded font in your textpage, some styles may not work. For example, if you want to use the "standard 07_53" font, you will not be able to use the bold tag because it is not embedded. This will simply make the text within the tag to dissappear.

# If you want to create an image that displays above the text, you need to use a special trick, or the text will simply wrap around the image. Use the following code, making sure to set the "leading" attribute the same as the height of your image: