Before we can begin to build the pages of our book, we need to set a few Project Properties for this project. Kwik has several feature options that can be set differently for any project. These general options are what we will take a look at now.

• For this project we will tell Kwik that we want to use the built-in navigational menu. Kwik will automatically create a thumbnail image for each of our pages and build a nav menu with those thumbnails. This menu is not visible until the Pages button is clicked, causing it to slide in to view.
  
  
• We also want to tell Kwik to remember the last page viewed by the reader and display that page the next time that the reader opens the app. This is called a Bookmark.
  
  
• We want the app to suspend when the reader's device needs to leave the app to perform other tasks.
  
  
• Kwik has a built-in swipe gesture for moving between pages in our book app. However, younger readers have trouble with the swipe gesture and some authors prefer to use Back and Next buttons instead. We will turn off the swipe gesture in the Project Properties.
  
  
• We can also choose to support the Landscape or Portrait view in both orientations. However, this feature may interfere with the interactive physics that we will be adding to some pages. So we will not use this option.
  
  
• Finally, we have three choices for how Kwik will handle any page that does not fit the dimensions of the device screen. The Stretch option will stretch the image to fit, which may possibly cause distortion. The Even option will crop the image to fit. The best option for our book app is the Letterbox option, which will use solid black bars to compensate for the problem page dimensions. Although all our pages will be built to the same dimensions as the iPad device, we will choose the Letterbox option.
  
  

With the page1.psd still open, select the Project and Pages category icon in the top Categories row of the Kwik panel. This will display the toolset for this category. An easy way to tell which category of buttons is currently being displayed is to look for the small blue dot which will be under the current category icon.

Now click on the Project Properties icon (first icon in the top row of tools under the Categories row).

1. In the Project Properties dialog box, we want to enable the following in the Features section.
   
   Enable Auto-bookmark
   End App on Suspend
   Export Thumbnails (change the width to larger if you wish)
   Create Navigation Panel
   
   
2. Click the Configure button to choose the placement of the slide-in navigational menu. We have the options for the menu to slide in from the top, bottom or either side of the page. For this example, we will choose to have the menu slide in from the top. The default background color for the thumbnail strip is white. We will change the RGB color code to black (0,0,0). Finally, the transparency of the background strip is set to 50% by default. This will allow the page behind it to show through. Let's keep this at 50%.
   
   Position: Top
   Color: 0,0,0
   Alpha: 50%
   
   Note: If you decide to keep the default settings, you must still click the Configure and then the Create button. If you don't, your app will not work in the simulator.
   
   
3. For the Gestures section, we want to turn off the following.
   
   We want to uncheck the Enable Page Swipe
   
   Turn off Support Landscape in Both Orientations
   
   
4. In the Scale section, we want to use the Letterbox option. This option will not distort or stretch the page to fit the screen and will not crop the page. It will use letterbox bars instead.
   
   
5. Click Save.
   
   

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These tutorials are for the older version of Kwik 2 and may not be much help when using Kwik 3 and above. If you are having trouble, please use the Kwik forum.