Comments on: Simple flex flip book for WordPress

By: Ridou

Ridou — Wed, 18 May 2011 13:46:26 +0000

Hi thanks for the sample code.

I have a little problem, can you help me ?
- i’ve created a next/prev button to flip page but when i reach the end of the book or the first minus page it bug:
Supplied index is below zero or greater than the amount of pages in PageManager (minus one).

I’ve you an idea to resolve this ?

I’ve an another problem, when i display an image on the right page, the image doesn’t scale correctly unlike the left page. i don’t know where i must look.

Thanks anyway, i’m novice in flex.

By: Jon Lund Steffensen

Jon Lund Steffensen — Thu, 12 May 2011 09:42:51 +0000

Hi Ridou, the xml file for the example above is here: http://jonls.dk/wp-content/plugins/book-jonls/desc.php?id=1 . The flip book can only load images.

By: Ridou

Ridou — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:31:28 +0000

I’m curious about your xml file you loaded into the flex flipbook. Can we have a sample ?
In your code, can you load pdf files or only images ?

By: Jon Lund Steffensen

Jon Lund Steffensen — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:49:40 +0000

@Justine: IIRC it’s currently not possible to do what you describe, but it is certainly possible to add that feature if you’re familiar with flex.

By: Justine

Justine — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:13:19 +0000

Hi, I am using the flipping book library as well. I see you are creating your pages dinamically but you still have the gotoPage method that flips every page to go to the last page for example. Do you know if there a way to change that behaviour and make the book go to the selected page without flipping all pages between?
Thanks,

Justine

By: Jon Lund Steffensen

Jon Lund Steffensen — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:32:28 +0000

@Stanza: Yes, IIRC, the size of the book depends on the size of the images. There’s no scaling applied. You can set the size of the swf when you embed it but this only sets the size of the “canvas” where the book is painted. The size of the book itself depends on the image size.

By: Stanza

Stanza — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:02:25 +0000

Hi and thank you for the great work.
I actually don’t know how works the size of the swf movie. It depends automatically from the size of the images you use?
So, is it possible to control the width and height of the movie?

Thanks

Stanza

By: Jon Lund Steffensen

Jon Lund Steffensen — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:37:20 +0000

@Marc Seter: Hi. Sadly, I haven’t kept the source in a revision control system so I don’t remember exactly what changes I made and why. The main problem with Ruben’s code was that pages couldn’t be added dynamically. A number of tweaks to the code was required to allow that; the change you mentioned could very well be one of those.

By: Marc Seter

Marc Seter — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:30:25 +0000

Hello to a fellow Dane! You, sir, are working on some very cool projects. Redshift looks fascinating. Nice ubuntu brochure too – I also have “discovered ubuntu” – I’d been a Slackware fan since ’94 (or so) and started with ubuntu 6.04. Love `apt-get`ting stuff!

Question about the flipbook: Ruben’s source code includes an “if” conditional in SuperViewStack:childrenCreated() that your flipbook20100318 code does not. Did you delete that conditional, or did Ruben add it recently? If you deleted it, why? I’m wondering if it’s a bugfix…

Keep up the cool work!