http://76design.com/pageflip/ 76design - Page Flip: Recent Posts en Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:18:36 +0000 http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=323#post-1022 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:22:41 +0000 handler 1022@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Is there any way to use your version without all the bells and whistles--I sort of want the simplicity of 2.13.<br /> Also, is it possible to pause/resume sounds with your version?<br /> Thanks. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=212&page=2#post-1021 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:45:11 +0000 bnnorman 1021@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>ok. Yes I wrote LeftPageloader.swf and RightPageLoader.swf to try to handle that.</p> <p>Try my version (BNN-1.33) and for a left page use:-</p> <p>&lt;page src="pages/LeftPageLoader.swf"&gt;<br /> &lt;param name="src" value="path to actual page"/&gt;<br /> &lt;/page&gt;</p> <p>and right pages..</p> <p>&lt;page src="pages/RightPageLoader.swf"&gt;<br /> &lt;param name="src" value="path to actual page"/&gt;<br /> &lt;/page&gt;</p> <p>RightPageLoader.swf and LeftPageLoader.swf are only 20Kb each and include loader bars so might help. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=322#post-1020 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:40:41 +0000 bnnorman 1020@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Oh! BNN-V1.33 is based on V2.13 from Steve/Macc but I haven't seen the bug you report.</p> <p>Anyone else seen it? </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=323#post-1019 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:39:06 +0000 bnnorman 1019@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Have you tried my version? (BNN V1.33 from <a href="http://www.bncs.karoo.net" rel="nofollow">www.bncs.karoo.net</a> - based on 2.13 with bells and whistles). It has sound tracks built in and you can cause them to play when a page is turned to plus control volume ramp up/down.</p> <p>With V2.13 (from Macc/Steve) the onVisible method is called multiple times - that may be causing your problem. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=212&page=2#post-1018 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:49:00 +0000 greggorians 1018@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>i run it both in local disk and live web page.</p> <p>the problem is when i run it in the live web page</p> <p>it take so very long time...</p> <p>it make the customer think that it is a broken link..</p> <p>what i need is only a preloader of each page to </p> <p>tell the customer that it is still loading so that they will wait..</p> <p>i hope you got my point..</p> <p>ty..</p> <p>GOD BLESS... </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=322#post-1017 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:03:20 +0000 Jordane 1017@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>I have the version 2.13 </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=323#post-1016 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:14:03 +0000 handler 1016@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Could the problem be that I am using AS3? Are AS3 swfs compatible with v213? </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=323#post-1015 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:59:31 +0000 handler 1015@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Hi, I'm a newcomer to Actionscript, and I'm using pageflip_v213. For some reason, the onVisible and onInvisible functions do not want to cooperate with me.</p> <p>Here's what I have in frame 1 of my page:</p> <p>stop();</p> <p>var loadSnd:URLRequest = new URLRequest("007.mp3");<br /> var thisSnd:Sound = new Sound();<br /> var channel:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();<br /> var resume:Boolean;<br /> var pauseposition: int;</p> <p>function onVisible() {<br /> thisSnd.load(loadSnd);<br /> channel = thisSnd.play();<br /> play_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, resumeF);<br /> play_btn.doubleClickEnabled = true;<br /> play_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK, playF);<br /> }</p> <p>function onInvisible()<br /> {<br /> SoundMixer.stopAll();<br /> play_btn.enabled = false;<br /> }</p> <p>function resumeF(event:MouseEvent):void{<br /> if (resume == false){<br /> pauseposition = channel.position;<br /> channel.stop();<br /> resume = true;<br /> }<br /> else if (resume == true){<br /> channel.stop();<br /> channel = thisSnd.play(pauseposition);<br /> resume = false;<br /> }</p> <p>}</p> <p>function playF(event:MouseEvent):void{<br /> SoundMixer.stopAll();<br /> channel = thisSnd.play();<br /> }</p> <p>Basically, what I'm trying to do is have the page play a sound when it is flipped to, and have a button on the page that can control the sound. When I don't use the onvisible function, it works, but when I do use it it just doesn't do anything. Moreover, when I try to load the page into pageflip, it doesn't play any sound (w/ or w/o the onvisible function). Could anyone point me to where I am going wrong? It's very likely that I'm messing up something really basic (about how to integrate the pages into pageflip) , I just don't know what it is.<br /> Thanks very much for your help. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=212&page=2#post-1014 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:30:47 +0000 bnnorman 1014@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Ok, I'll have a go at creating a 300 page book (pages.xml) and see what gives.</p> <p>How long does it take before your book actually opens? And are you running from a local disk or from a web page? (latter may scupper my attempts at diagnosis) </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=212&page=2#post-1013 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:22:14 +0000 greggorians 1013@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>i have almost 300 pages in my book..</p> <p>thank you very much..</p> <p>god bless.. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=322#post-1012 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:09:54 +0000 bnnorman 1012@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>what is your version of pageflip? </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=212&page=2#post-1011 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:48:02 +0000 bnnorman 1011@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>V1.34 has some more stuff for dynamic page loading - I haven't released it yet because I'm working on getting the large cover feature working.</p> <p>remind me how many pages your book has. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=321#post-1010 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:42:43 +0000 bnnorman 1010@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Wierd - I haven't seen this. Is this happening with the sample pages as well?</p> <p>You mention print option and monitor together. Since you mention the monitor last ...</p> <p>You should be able to set PopUp._x and PopUp._y both to zero because the position is relative to the Stage not the page. Zoom.as manipulates the x/y coords of popups for scrolling - so you could paly around in there.</p> <p>The popup registration point is top left because that's the default for a movie clip created with createEmptyMovieClip(). I'm surprised it is offset outside (the document? - do you mean book or printed page?).</p> <p>Do all the page popups do this? Are you using a standard size page?</p> <p>One possibility I can think of is: if you are using SWF pages and you have set the registration to be centre that might cause the page to be pushed up and left. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=322#post-1009 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:24:40 +0000 Jordane 1009@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Hi, </p> <p>I have a problem with my version of pageflip.<br /> When I am in a corner there are the flip under my mouse but there is fliping in the oposite corner.</p> <p>How can I correct this bug ? </p> <p>Thanks for your answer</p> <p>Regards </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=320#post-1008 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:56:57 +0000 gizamo 1008@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>If you're problem is with the centering of the pages in the .fla and not the centering of the swf in your html... below is how I accomplished centering the pages in my liquid pageflip layout: (note: I'm not a Flash guru, so try to take this advice with a hint of caution. I'd recommend keeping a backup of your current work in case this fails miserably). :0)</p> <p>Frame 1 (relevant) AS:</p> <p>// initiate postitions and scaling values for objects<br /> pages._x = Stage.width/2;<br /> pages._y = Stage.height/2;<br /> pages._width = Math.max(Stage.width,800);<br /> pages._yscale = pages._xscale;<br /> if (pages._height&lt;Stage.height) {<br /> pages._height = Stage.height;<br /> pages._xscale = pages._yscale;<br /> }</p> <p>//create a listner that checks to see if the window is resized<br /> sizeListener = new Object();<br /> sizeListener.onResize = function() {<br /> pages._x = Stage.width/2;<br /> pages._y = Stage.height/2;<br /> }<br /> Stage.addListener(sizeListener);</p> <p>Frame 8 (relevant) AS: (note: the "resetCache(); function seemed to cause some problems, so I put my position and scaling values at the end of the AS on this frame to prevent any cache removal issues):</p> <p>// initiate postitions and scaling values for objects<br /> pages._x = Stage.width/2;<br /> pages._y = Stage.height/2;<br /> pages._width = Math.max(Stage.width,800);<br /> pages._yscale = pages._xscale;<br /> if (pages._height&lt;Stage.height) {<br /> pages._height = Stage.height;<br /> pages._xscale = pages._yscale;<br /> }</p> <p>Lastly, you have to set the centering in your pageNav AS as well. (If I'm interpreting your question correctly, I believe this is the primarily solution to your problem). I used the below AS (but the alteration of the offsetPages value is simply there because my catalog had a cover – which meant that page 1 of my catalog was actually page 3 of the pageflip... so you can probably just ignore it):</p> <p>prevBtn.onRelease = function ()<br /> {<br /> var _loc2 = _parent.offsetPages(_parent.page - 3, _parent.removedPages);<br /> if (_loc2 &gt;= -1)<br /> {<br /> _parent.pages._x = Stage.width/2;<br /> _parent.pages._y = Stage.height/2;<br /> _parent.gotoPage(_loc2);<br /> _parent.mc_index.showFlag = false;<br /> } // end if<br /> };</p> <p>Hope that helps ya. Good luck and Happy New year (to all). </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=212&page=2#post-1007 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:16:46 +0000 greggorians 1007@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>hi bnnorman..</p> <p>happy new year...</p> <p>i already downloaded the V1.31 and already tried it..</p> <p>but there is no changes at all..</p> <p>it has the same preloading time with my previous flip book...</p> <p>i take very long time to preload the book..</p> <p>is there any solution to this problem...</p> <p>thank you and good health..</p> <p>god bless... </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=321#post-1006 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:35:43 +0000 nodnyl 1006@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>brian, I used your script in the nav.as for the print option and it works well with one problem, the registration point for the loaded pages are not in the right place. The upper left point of the page seems to be way up and outside the document. Can I do something with the popup so that when the popup shows, it's upper left corner would be at the upper left corner of the monitor? Believe me I tried everything but nothing happens. Hope you can help. Thanks </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=320#post-1005 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:13:24 +0000 bnnorman 1005@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>When you say 0,0 do you mean top left of the stage area?</p> <p>When you say 'center position of book is default' please explain more. </p> <p>The book is normally positioned based on Stage width and page width. So if the pw=300 and stage width=800 there would normally be a margin of 100px horiz i.e. (800-2*pw)/2.</p> <p>Page center is the center of the pages not the top left edge (all to do with page turn calculations - I guess the original author found it easier.)</p> <p>pages._x for the left page is -page width, pages._x for the right page is 0. This positioning is done in the function reset() in actions_f9.as at the top (or frame 9 if you are using old code). You'd have to modify it there. </p> <p>Otherwise simplest thing might be to try setting stage width=2*page width and stage height = page height + some space for navigation (check height of pageNav mc in library). </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=320#post-1004 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:20:51 +0000 LifeGuard 1004@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Hi<br /> I tried to put the book in the center of www site (swf is w: 100% h: 100%) and other movie clip in swf put in the top. Center position of book is default. But if I'll try put others movie clips in custom position book (and content) moves to x=0 y=0<br /> I tried to move book and content (I made new as layer):<br /> pages._x = Stage.width/2;<br /> pages._y = Stage.height/2;<br /> It works until clik on it (page). After touching book, pages come back to x=0 y=0 position...</p> <p>What shall I do? </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=319#post-1003 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:48:32 +0000 lebu 1003@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>ok, thanks mucho for your rapid response. I will try that code. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=319#post-1002 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:31:27 +0000 bnnorman 1002@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Hard cover click problem...if you can't wait till V1.34 then locate this code near the start of actions_f11.as and add in the bold bits..</p> <p>// define page areas - with allowance for the click area</p> <p>var lpRect:Rectangle=new Rectangle(pages._x-pw<strong>+clickarea</strong>,vMargin,pw<strong>-clickarea</strong>,ph); // left page<br /> var rpRect:Rectangle=new Rectangle(pages._x,vMargin,pw<strong>-clickarea</strong>,ph); // right page<br /> var cpRect:Rectangle=new Rectangle(pages._x-(pw/2),vMargin,pw<strong>-clickarea</strong>,ph); // centred</p> <p>This change reduces the size of the rectangles used to detect click zoom by the amount of the page click turn region. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=313#post-1001 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:08:01 +0000 bnnorman 1001@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Thanks for that. No-one else has mentioned it. I added the lens using code donated and I only work on a local system so I do not see these security issues. I'll add it to my list of things to think about. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=319#post-1000 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:53:45 +0000 bnnorman 1000@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>offer of help appreciated </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=313#post-999 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:28:26 +0000 lebu 999@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>:o). I will be there in London for 2012 Olympics. I also love your Cricket and Man U Soccer. Wish we had the kind of passionate sports fans here in NYC like you guys have for British Soccer. </p> <p>BTW, the lens on the space bar that shows only the background, it is a flash swf security issue for Flash 8 and beyond. Had the same problems . Unfortunately, the Lens MC has to be just above the movie clip or jpg to zoom do the lens zoom. It will not allow the bitmap methods or operational features to work on another movie clip that contains other movieclips or jpegs. This supposedly to prevent your code to manipulate the contents of another SWF, loaded or embedded. WHat works at design time, does not work at run time.</p> <p>It is a great lens feature that will work well with the book. One option that can work is to the old flash 5 trick <a href="http://www.freehandsource.com/_test/lens.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.freehandsource.com/_test/lens.html</a> to load the zoomable page in a hidden masked page that is dynamically zoomed and viewed through the lens mask. Zoomable pages can be your Hires pages under a lens mask with _xscale and _yscale changed dynamically to adjust size.<br /> check out this old style that can be used even in today on selected pages:<br /> <a href="http://www.freehandsource.com/_test/lens.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.freehandsource.com/_test/lens.html</a> </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=319#post-998 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:40:01 +0000 lebu 998@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Ok cool, I got it with the underscore. Thanks. Hope you had a nice holiday.<br /> The lcover tries its best :-). It is a nice feature when the hcover is "true". At least it gives an edge at the top. So it may be a "y" centralizing thing. But I am obviously looking in with the eyes of a novice to the code. This is great stuff, so I love to do the user acceptance testing of features to keep the code base functions current, especially since you are doing so much to build and/or integrate new features for the crew. So let me know wherever I can help. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=319#post-997 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:31:06 +0000 bnnorman 997@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>I add an underscore to effectively turn off features so _hcover="true" is the same as hcover="false" because the default is 'false' - lazy way of doing it but also leaves options in place so people can see what's possible. </p> <p>The mouse click thing - fair point. I need to limit popup stuff to the none turn part of the page - if you get my meaning. </p> <p>lcover - isn't finished - I found some old code but could not get it to work properly so it is still a work in (slow) progress </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=313#post-996 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:26:24 +0000 bnnorman 996@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Nope, I'm British and I don't like football either. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=316#post-995 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:32:40 +0000 crazyduck 995@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Why do you search for errors, when it works in the latest release. If it has so much functionality that you don't need, why don't you just turn off the functionality that you don't need. For me it works just fine. Don't know about hotspots, I have never used it. The only thing I can think of is that if you have a unix account you have to check your filenames carefully, they may change to lowercase when you upload it to the server. It depends on which hosting provider you are using. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=319#post-994 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:59:25 +0000 lebu 994@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>In version test 1.33 -- testing Hard Cover and Large Cover features</p> <p>HARD COVER<br /> _hcover in pages.xml versus hcover in actions_f5 makes it a nop.</p> <p>changed _hcover in xml to hcover. Cover turns hard but Would not accept mouse clip to open . Instead large version of cover (hires) comes up. Only navigation bar &gt;&gt; opens book. Works, but hires_src must be set to "DISABLED" . It then accepted mouse click to open without bringing up hires. Same on Back cover.</p> <p>LARGE COVER feature.<br /> _lcover in pages.xml versus lcover in actions_f5 makes it a nop.</p> <p>changed _lcover in xml to lcover. Works, but large cover only shows edge at top.</p> <p>Seems like spread page on page 2 and 3 creates problems with hard cover when navigating from page 2 to 1. Spread remains momentarily. Same when navigating to back cover. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=316#post-993 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:02:12 +0000 MartinP 993@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Yes I am using v2.13, I don't need any more functionality than that.</p> <p>I have just uploaded BNN-V1.30 and the images load. </p> <p>There were a few case errors I found. Hotspot1.png Hotspot2.png and audio/ are mismatched with the pages.xml.</p> <p>I could use this version but it has so much functionality that I just don't need.</p> <p>There must be an easy remedy for the v2.13. Although I have searched again and again for case errors.</p> <p>Could you tell me where, in which files the case errors could occur? </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=316#post-992 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:06:32 +0000 lebu 992@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>You may want to check your Hosting Provider Security settings... Mime Types may not be set properly of Security may be too "STRONG" instead of "MEDIUM". Some sites are over protective of images to prevent outside programs from deep linking your jpegs. I had a problem like yours some time ago. I tried everything, including chicken soup with black pepper so I could sneeze out a solution. :-). Left it for a few hours. Then the answer came in the middle of the night. It turn out to be the settings at the hosting company. Thank God for Chicken Soup. :). Check out the settings at your hosting company dude. You may not be doing anything wrong.</p> <p>Happy Holidays. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=313#post-991 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:54:40 +0000 lebu 991@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Thanks. The Search Feature is working again. The Tear Off is ripping fine. Its smooth and blazing fast. The keyboard keys trapping conflicts a little when entering search keywords, especially the space bar that brings up the lens. So you may want to disable it once the search field or Goto Page No field has the focus. </p> <p>I will continue some more deep testing to see what other anamolies I can find. No sweat. You have done more than enough.</p> <p>Life is cool. So you deserve to have a merry one for this joyous season. Happy Holidays.<br /> Hey, If you have time, see Celtics vs Lakers NBA tomorrow. :-). Should be a great game. I am assuming you like basketball. :). </p> <p>Relax. No Coding. Can't wait... </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=316#post-990 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:04:32 +0000 bnnorman 990@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Version Alert!</p> <p>In my versions import_xml.as changed its name to actions_f5.as back in August.</p> <p>I'm guessing you are using an older version of pageflip - possibly V2.13 from Steve/Macc - in which case import_xml.as should be #included on frame 5 and is only used when the FLA is compiled to an SWF. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=316#post-989 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:46:05 +0000 MartinP 989@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>Thanks the swift reply.</p> <p>Yes it's a UNIX server.</p> <p>I have checked folder and file names in the html which calls the book.swf and pages.xml, all the image and folder names and image names in the pages.xml</p> <p>Everything is lowercase.</p> <p>As the original files when uploaded have the same problem I guess there must be a mismatch already present.</p> <p>Could that be in the pageflip.fla?</p> <p>Is the import_xml.as actually used, it seems to work fine locally without it. </p> http://76design.com/pageflip/topic.php?id=318#post-988 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:05:58 +0000 bnnorman 988@http://76design.com/pageflip/ <p>pageFlip V1.33 - obtain from <a href="http://www.bncs.karoo.net" rel="nofollow">www.bncs.karoo.net</a> as always<br /> -------------------------<br /> Brian Norman<br /> 24th December 2009</p> <p>1 BugFix: Popups of pages using LeftPageLoader/RightPageLoader did not load content.<br /> Scripts affected: PopUp.FLA</p> <p> Added Signal("loadContent") in the listener onLoadInit() method to initiate the page content loading.</p> <p>2 BugFix: Contents thumbnails of pages using xPageLoader did not load content.<br /> Scripts affected: mcContents.as</p> <p> In order to issue a loadContent signal the loading mechanism for contents<br /> thumbnails has been changed from using loadMovie to loadClip which<br /> provides an event when the clip has loaded. </p>