Comments on: Book beta bug-fixes & simple demo

By: Boris

Boris — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:14:03 +0000

Hi Rubens -amazing work -

but i have some problems when using transparent pages - i have some postits at the edge of the sides so the y will look out of the book it self - no problem - but the transparent parts pf the pages make a shadow when they will be flipped - do you have any ideas to solve that problem

By: Ruben

Ruben — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:37:36 +0000

Hey Randa,

…but the book script overrides any script added latter.

I can assure you that the Book component itself doesn’t override anything. What exactly is it you’re asking?

By: Randa

Randa — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:24:38 +0000

Hey ,

would like to say GREAT WORK! Love the style and the applications that are added on.

I have a question. I’m trying to have links to sound mp3 files that play upon a button being pressed on a specific page and having it either pop up a sound clip file that can be stopped or paused. Also want to have a video .mov file be able to play by a button or words being pressed. Have tried to make buttons that play the embedded movie. Have also tried to link to an outside file located in a specific .mov that would have to load in…but the book script overrides any script added latter. Any advice??

Thank you so much

By: Ruben

Ruben — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:13:56 +0000

@Ids: Hey Ids, how’ve you been? Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll keep them in mind.

By: Ids Klijnsma

Ids Klijnsma — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:19:33 +0000

Yo Ruben,
Just a few suggestions to make your book a bit more useful:
1. Adding the possibility to provide a dataProvider and itemRenderers, that way you don’t have to add every page yourself;
2. Disable the animations;
3. Jump to page x immediately (without scrolling through each page);
4. Add a default page (useful when the number of pages is not even);
5. Lazy loading / creation policies, for performance.

Just some thoughts that came to my mind, cheers!
Ids.

By: Ruben

Ruben — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:28:28 +0000

@matsiya: Thanks! Man that one’s easy to overlook, I’ll be sure to fix that in the next version..

@Ander: Actually yes, the Book component is still not compatible for Actionscript-only projects (it uses Flex-framework components such as ViewStack and Canvas). However, you do not need Flex-server software to use the component, just Flex Builder.

As for porting this component, as it makes use of many Flex-components it may be a better idea to just build your own (Actionscript-only) Book component from scratch (or to just get Flex Builder and start using mine )..

By: Ander Hettich

Ander Hettich — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:23:38 +0000

Hi,
nice work and I would like to use it for a AS3 Project.
But is it still true that it is not possible to use the Project in pure AS3 Projects?
I am an expierienced AS3 Programmer and would like to try to port the Project to pure AS3 because I need a Pageflip without using Flex Server.

Do you think this is possible? How many MXML:Flex Components do you use? And for what? How much work will it be to port it to AS3? Can you help me with it? Or is there allready source code that allows me to use your nice flip in AS3?

thanks
ander

By: matsiya

matsiya — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:28:08 +0000

Hi,

Great job you’ve done here.

I’ve found a little fix when you want to load dynamic content, and get the gradient, after doing the Page.drawFoldGradient(), you’ll see that the gradient is always on the left side. It’s because Page.side() is always -1;
The function responsible of that is get side():int;

The fix is :

if (this.index == -1){
return -1;
}else{
return ((this.index+1) % 2);
}

instead of

if (this._index == -1){
return -1;
}else{
return ((this._index+1) % 2);
}

I hope that will help some of you

By: Bryce

Bryce — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:27:06 +0000

Hi Ruben,

great component - the effects are amazing! I was wondering if there was a way to programmatically flip to a page without flipping through all the pages in between and also being able to disable corners? I ask this since I’m trying to use the component on a site that has a login, but there are some pages that should be accessible by everyone. Plus, I want to add links to the top of the page so that people can flip to the page, but not necessarily have to go through all the pages in between. Thanks!

By: Ruben

Ruben — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:38:57 +0000

Don’t know anything about flex and i wonder if i can do reverse : load some flash compiled swf or flv into one of the pages.
Than my app would look like: flash app loads flex book, flex book loads (or embed) another swf compiled in flash before. Is it possible ?? What are the limitations ?

Hey Chris, that will probably be a hell of a lot of work. If you ask me you will be much better of just learning how to use Flex, it’s not so bad if you already have the hang of Actionscript..