Comments on: Book beta bug-fixes & simple demo

By: alchemist

alchemist — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:43:15 +0000

Just like to say fantastic project very impressive…

I have a question it’s relating to the max number of pages that can be practically added to the book. After doing some simple testing: approx 50 pages produces slow rendering and 100 is basically unusable (each page contains no children). Can you point me in the right direction to improve performance or maybe there’s a simple solution?

By: shashank

shashank — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:34:02 +0000

hey ruben, /m\…

And hey, how to add pages to the existing pages or remove one ..

i want to cut down on the number of pages and being a newbie to flex am finding it hard to do..could u help?

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:16:24 +0000

I’m trying to programmatically instantiate (and consequently destroy/re-render) instances of Book and Page in Actionscript a la:

private function onCreationComplete ():void
{
var myBook:Book = new Book();
myBook.x = Math.round(Application.application.width/2-400);
myBook.y = 50;
myBook.width = 800;
myBook.height = 530;

var page1:Page=new Page();
myBook.addChild(page1);
var page2:Page=new Page();
myBook.addChild(page2);
var page3:Page=new Page();
myBook.addChild(page3);

FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.addChild(myBook);
}

I’m having a bit of trouble getting anything to render. If anybody has done this before I’d appreciate some pointers.

By: ThaStyle

ThaStyle — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:32:28 +0000

Yo Ruben… just wanted to add this to my previous comment.. been looking through all the responces and comments above, guess what i want to achieve is dummy pages that hold a arrayCollection, i could use repeaters but they really suck big time cpu ussage… please check this post on http://www.tink.ws/blog/datastack/
2 containers that just swap , i saw a post from a long time ago with someone who said use 6 pages, this i think would be it if the book is on 3-4 build dynamicly 1-2 and 5-6 and shift by flipping back and forward , this way the book could have dynamic content and still be quick, been playing it for a while now, kind of drives me nuts, i builded a guestbook its okay for now, just 20 pages added dynamicly but it also means 20 instances of tha f**cker
i also managed to do a hide thingie and use only 4 static pages, hide on before flip , when flip done fade the content in with the binding.. but this is just not realistic , i really want to get the idea that the book has all the messages..
let me know what u think….
greets peter…. btw AGAIN great work!!!!!!

By: ThaStyle

ThaStyle — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:10:44 +0000

Yo ruben,first of all nice work kerel , would be great if there was a way to apply a dataprovider though.. ofcource i can do this manually but love the simple straight forward events…
Keep it up man ……2 duimen omhoog :

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:06:16 +0000

Any chance that flipping multiple sheets at once will be supported soon? (Whether it’s an auto skip, or seeing the animation of a bunch of pages fly by together?)

By: brewing

brewing — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:26:44 +0000

Hello,
Is there a way to made a Page double sided ??

By: greg

greg — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:53:23 +0000

Ruben, are you still supporting this? I’m going to production with your great component, but there is a problem holding me back. Any light-colored container shows the shadow of an angular flip on the left side that extends hundreds of pixels page the edge of the book. Is that why your demos are on a dark background? Is there any way you can either correct, or tell me where I can correct it? I’d really appreciate it and get my boss off my butt for choosing this component – which I think is superior in a number aspects than some of the others out there. Please, please respond if you can.

By: yrunts

yrunts — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:52:37 +0000

i am trying to resize and zoom|pan the ruben flipbook but not getting any success till yet can any body please help me in this regard

I had the same problem. Solution is to scale add book to canvas and scale canvas.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:26:57 +0000

quote from Jeffrey:

Hey Guys , Currently i am trying to use an image where its source is from a server , i.e. “http://localhost/….” however , the image cannot be displayed. I was wondering you have any ideas on this . Thank you for your time . Hope for an reply soon!

firebug it!! make sure it’s looking where it’s supposed to (use the net tab on firebug you’ll hopefully(?) find a 404 when it’s looking for the image, as it’s just in the wrong spot like http://localhost/yourfolder/image.jpg instead of http://localhost/image.jpg

also to Ruben, I love you!!

I needed your code to work with an xml (so the content can be modified with a cms), so i added this!

with the xml in the form:

going to work on adding a box for commentary from the CMS as well

thanks so much for the awesome release man!