Page Flip Help
This page is for people with technical questions about the PageFlip effect code which I wrote back in 2002. I probably won’t be answering questions very frequently but I encourage everyone to use the Comments area to help each other out.
Download PixelWit’s Free PageFlip: If you don’t have the free version yet, you can click here to download PixelWit’s Free PageFlip Flash file.
Improved PageFlip Now Available: Improved version of the PageFlip implements the most commonly requested features.
Adding Pages: If you want to know how to add more pages or why you get an error saying, “a ‘with’ action failed…”, you can read the tutorial explaining how to add pages.
Resizing Pages: If you want to know how to change the size of the book you can read the tutorial explaining how to resize the pages.
Resizing the Stage and Moving the Book: If you’d like to change the size of the stage and move the book you can read this tutorial explaining how to resize the stage and reposition the PageFlip book.
Transforming the Book: If you want to know how to scale or rotate the book you can read this tutorial explaining how to transform the PageFlip.
Publishing to Newer SWF Versions: If you would like to publish the PageFlip SWF for the version 7.0 Player (or higher) you will need to make a few minor corrections to the file. You can read the tutorial explaining how to publish the PageFlip file to newer versions of the SWF Player.
Changing the Background: If you’re having trouble changing the background color of the PageFlip file, then this brief PageFlip Background Color Tutorial will help you out.
Changing Page Color: If you’d like to change the color of the PageFlip “pages” or “paper”, then this PageFlip Page Color Tutorial will get you headed in the right direction.
Changing the Shadow Gradient: If you’d like to change the shadows that help give the pages a “3D” look, then this PageFlip Shadow Gradient Tutorial should help you tweak the settings.
Multiple PageFlips: If you’d like to place more than one book in a Flash file, then this Multiple PageFlips Tutorial will show you the way.
Start PageFLip Book in Open Position: If you’d like the PageFlip book to start in an open position with 2 pages showing, this tutorial will explain how to Open the PageFlip to Other Pages.
Convert to Read from Right to Left: If you’d like the Page Flipping book to read from right to left, this simple tutorial will explain how to Convert the Page Flip to Read Right to Left.
Why It’s Free: If you want to know why I gave this code away, you can read Something About Sluggy.
Flip History: If you want to know more about various Flash page flip effects you can read the PageFlip page.
Personalized Service: If you need immediate support you can contract my services for a fee. Please Contact Me with specific details regarding your request as well as your budgetary limitations and I’ll be sure to consider your offer.
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Sara, draw a rectangle the size of your page and center it in the background of your print clips.
Deli, search through the code, find all instances of “lineto” and replace with with “lineTo”. Replace all “curveto” with “curveTo”.
-PiXELWiT
Hi, thanks for sharing the code and it’s really helpful to understand the page flip effect
yet, I just applying the flipping page effect to my website project. when i tried to edit the publish setting from flash player 6 to flash player 8, it can’t work, if i have to use flash player 8 ( for certain filter effects), what should I do? thanks.
Hey!
Congratulations for making this script, and thank you for making it availible.
well, I have a Site where I will put a least page with this script in frame 256 and I can`t it show a mensage it is not possible becuse one object no exist. What I have to do?
Thank!
Enir
Just so you know I sorted out the problem… replace the 4 (i think) “print”s with “youridname”!
Hi again,
Just a very quick question, I’ve looked at the code a lot, and tried some things, but can’t sort myself out… What do I have to do to be able name the linkage identifiers something other than “print”?
Once again, great script!
Hey Juan,
Don’t add any frames to print. Just duplicate the last “Page” movie clip, change the name to the next page or whatever you want, change the export to the next print, and drag whatever picture you want onto stage of movie clip. don’t forget to change maxpages.
Hi…
I’m not good using flash script but i see this movie can be helpfull… i have navigating in the code and find how to change the size of pages but i can’t add a page. I change the var maxPages to 10 and add a frame in the “print” time line with a movieclip “print9”. When I turn the last pages the button seems to work but the images does not appear… and a get a error message “can’t do action with cause the specified objects does not exist”, what i’m doing wrong?
Another question: it is possible to pass the variables from a php to make the page contents external, i mean avoid to create manually everypage…
Thanks for help
how do i add more pages?
Hi!
First of all, congratulations, it looks great! But I’m having problems laying out the pages because when I put a picture I don’t know exactly where the page ends. Any ideas (rather than trying until it fits)??
Thanks!
In general, you need to use an onEnterFrame event rather than onMouseMove to tell the book where you want the page to be.
It can get complicated, but its been done before.
If you need more detailed instructions I can be contracted to help you with this as well as many other Flash scripting questions. Pixelwit’s gotta eat too ya know. 😉
Cool, any clues to how? I’ve been exploring the script, and understand most of it, but I’m not really sure where to start!
Fred
JM, 1) Use a colored rectangle in the background of the front page movieclip. 2) Edit the variables provided in the code to specify alternate page dimensions.
Fred, yes it’s possible. 😉
Hey!
First of all I want to say a big congratulations for making this script, and a huge thank you for making it availible.
I was wondering, say I want to have the drag script, but also a system with links, where cliking on a certain link will flip over to a certain page? Is this possible?
Thank youness!
Fred
I’m having problems changing just the colour of the front page and when I place text and graphics on the pages their size changes when I test the scene. Would you be able to tell me what I can do to resolve this problem please?
Kind regards,
JM
Beggars belief!
p.s. how do I add more pages?