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Post March 8th, 2006, 6:57 am

definetly mask based, cant do it other way; anyway, the guys who did it are really good, i only tried to understand what they did so i can modify it the way i want :D
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Post March 10th, 2006, 5:18 am

Hi,

I have posted a link to my work in progress and would like some assistance in tweaking it, since there are many uncommented lines of ActionScript which I dont understand.

http://www.alainpatry.com/test

2 questions:

1) What line tells Flash where to position the book. Mine is currently stuck at the top of the movie, and there are too many pages to go in and adjust manually. I want to use code.

2) This booklet has some sort of subtle binding. I recreated the effect by replacing Iparigrafika's red center mc with a 15 pixel-wide piece representing the binded area of the book's cover. The book's cover (page 1 mc) does not contain this extra 15 pixel piece. Looks great until you click to turn the page. Then something happens...the center piece dissappears. Any ideas?
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Post March 10th, 2006, 7:50 am

Hi IceCold (and others),

I'm having the same problem with the Page Flip thingy. If you could email me the older version that you have, that would be great. Or if you're willing to have a look at my .fla file, that would be wonderful. http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ckon/JaneFlashE.fla
Where am I going wrong?! Flash is just difficult for me.

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Post March 13th, 2006, 7:39 am

@orlando ... hmm, honestly, i actually moved all the images, the odd numbered ones to left, the even numbered to right, by a certain amount of pixels. I tried to do it dynamicaly, but then bumped into many strange behaviours of the pages, and since couldnt load the pages dynamical either .... i just took the easy way.
What i can do, is to tell you where you can implement your middle binder, so that when user turn the page, you can adjust the binder dynamic, so that it will change (according to the degree angle of the page) when user reach first page, 2 middle pages, or last page.
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Post March 13th, 2006, 3:38 pm

@icecold, ok , sounds good....pray tell about how you do it for the middle binding thing... :-)
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Post April 5th, 2006, 7:59 am

Hi, I am a newbie to flash and I was wondering how to increase the size, of the book.

Thanks
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Post April 5th, 2006, 10:23 am

electro wrote:
The virtual magazine is really cool, I posted a link yesterday about an online app which I've developed in Flash 8 which allow's you to design your own online mag.

http://www.formatpixel.com/go/ozzu/

They moved the post to site review which I don't know why as I'm still building it and was after feedback. :?

The page flipping effect which you have shown, is it Mask based?
Very intresting stuff!


Hi Electro,

Checked out your magazine. Very nice editor. Is it possible to obtain something like that to use on my on computer? I'd like to begin to study how to build a magazine for my web site at http://7times.org.

I don't have time to spend on line trying to learn how to use the editor. :cry:

Thanks.
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Post April 12th, 2006, 9:15 am

Hi kbrowder,

Thanks for the comments, I've been working on formatpixel for a good few months now and it's almost completed. Not sure when you last visited the site but it's going to be an online subscription system to the editor which will allows you to store your projects online! (no need to download any software)

It's really close to completion, the biggest update recently is building in the image uploading completely into flash so no need for pop-ups :)
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Post May 5th, 2006, 2:39 pm

Hey guys,

Ice i read your comments about bumping over the images, and im having a lot of trouble. I got the magazine working perfect, but i changed the flash movie size to 680x452 and all my pages are 340x452. the book works fine but it is positioned halfway down the flash movie and too far over to the right. when i try to reposition each image within their respective movie clips, the sensitive are where the user can flip the page is still where the old page used to be.

Is there an easy way to move the entire magazine, with the sensitive areas, all the pages and the shadows? Ive been trying to bump over the images and sensitive area over by 70 pixels in the code on the fifth frame, and after an hour i got the bottom corner working, but i cant seem to get that top corner to work.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

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Post May 7th, 2006, 7:48 pm

IceCold wrote:
oh, the iparigrafika.hu
nice stuff there. I hated it in the beginning, when i was asked to modify it and add all kind of weird stuff, like dynamic pages and other stupidities.
Well, after a while i kind of learned all that it does, so you may wanna take a look here:
virtual magazin
So, basically, to add more pages to your magazine, look in the library, u-ll see there pages-> page1, page2, ....
Right click on page 1 and chose Duplicate, then rename it to pageX (where X is the last number of pages + 1) repeat the procedure till u get all the pages you want. Dont forget to export them for action script -> right click on the item in library (Ctrl + L open the library, if u dont have it already opened) -> select Linkage, and give it a name (same as movie clip name, meaning pageX). As i see, there are some changes in this version of flipping pages, so .... do as that guy said there. Uncheck the Export in first frame option then drag and drop the Movie clip u created onto a frame (probably there`s a layer called pages, see where it starts, and drag the page on that layer, at the first key frame)
Then modify added pages as you like, next look into the actionscript thingy. U`ll see there an array of pages. Add to the array some more items (depending on how many pages u added). Also there is a variable called "maxPage". Set it`s value to the number of pages u have. I dont remember exactly now how the array variable is called (anyway something that contains the word "page" in it) , but i`m sure u`ll find it there. I`ll be offline this weekend, but i can help you sunday evening if you dont get any results.


hey there icecold.

i am trying to modify the page turn script that i downloaded from http://www.iparigrafika.hu:16080/pageflip/

i have followed the quote above, but am stuck at the part where you said:

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then drag and drop the Movie clip u created onto a frame (probably there`s a layer called pages, see where it starts, and drag the page on that layer, at the first key frame)



i am trying to make a page turn script to use as my portfolio, and just want a book about 20 or so pages long with no transparency or page tears...

so please can you explain in more detail the part where i stated i am stuck and and tell me how to get rid of the transparencies and page tears?

your help would be HUGELY appreciated mate.

thanks in advance

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Post May 22nd, 2006, 2:41 pm

i am still desperate for help with the above post i made, so if anyone can help it would be MUCH appreciated.

thanks

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Post May 26th, 2006, 10:13 am

You could check Here
http://www.catalog-flash.com/demo-of-catalog-flash/
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Post July 8th, 2006, 8:31 am

Hate to bring this back from the dead, but does anyone know where i can get the source files for this?


It'd be greatly appreciated
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Post July 12th, 2006, 9:51 am

I'm digging into pageflip code as well - quite slick piece of work. I do have a question maybe someone has already came up with and answer for.

I added a couple of buttons utilizing gotoPage() function to which I'm passing page var. The flip effect, however, is different when using function from when clicking the bottom of the page. When cliking at the bottom of the page, the effect is smooth. When envoking the gotoPage() function, it's kind of "jerky", edgy, and kind of flips twice before turning the page.

Did anyone notice that? Any reason why?
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Post July 12th, 2006, 11:48 pm

@nucleo: Flip Page
@flx: i used their gotoPage function and worked ok for me. I will provide an example ... if you pm me your email.
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