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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Thanks Matt I’m anxious to see your fix. My netstream movie kept restarting every time I moused over a page corner. Email sent.
I have another question. My book opens to pages 2 and 3. I’d like to disable turning page 2 back to view page 1. Basically I don’t want people to flip back to before the content begins. I thought about using page 0(? maybe the root movie) and page 1. I think this would work except for the alignment problem of matching up content on the root to the book.
Thanks,
Russell
Hey Russell, and anyone else dealing with streaming FLVs in pageflip. I’ve had a lot of challenges dealing with this as well, since – as wonderful as pageflip is – even improved pageflip is not very well commented, and the variable naming leaves a lot to be desired.
Since each page is pre-attached to dynamically generated movieclips with instance names that are either hard to determine or not coded to ever be addressable, you can’t put a video player in a specific Print mc. There may be a way to do this, but it’s not obvious to me without a serious recode.
My workaround has been to create my video object in a movieclip on a layer above the Pages mc, and have it non-visible on load. Then when the user clicks the button to flip to the video page, it creates the netstream object and does all the voodoo to load the streaming flv into the movie loader clip… once the video is loaded enough to begin playing, the video mc is made visible, and when it’s done (or the user flips the page), it is rendered invisible again, and the video object is cleared. One thing I had to cheat on is to delay the start of playback and making the video object visible until the page has flipped – otherwise it flips UNDER the video.
I know this is a short description, I’d be happy to elaborate and send you my FLA if you drop me a line at matt(at)mattlaurence(dot)com and ask.
Hello,
I purchased the Improved Page Flip. Iām trying different methods of displaying streaming flv video within the flip book while keeping the book functional. Has anyone been successful with this?
Thanks
Russell
Is there a way to compile/export a pageflip book so that its one complete swf that doesnt need to link to an xml page or graphics somewhere to work, so that all of those things are compiled into the swf?
Hello, how can i edit the preloading??
Because it says “% of undefined loaded”
and i want to change it to my own, example ” % of book loaded”.
Hi,
Thank you for this awesome script, i been looking around the web for a pageflip script and didn’t find something like this. Instructions are clear, easy to follow. And now i have my flash comic book. š
-william
I just wanted to thank you so much for your free page flipping file. I looked for weeks for tutorials on how to build a book with flipping pages and had no luck. I was very frustrated and was just about to give up when I came across your file. What a life saver! I made a Kids book that tells Bible stories, the thing is my niece can’t read yet so I wanted to have it narrate each page. I have tried a number of things and different codes but can’t figure it out. If anybody could give addvice, suggestions or answers that would be great.
Thank you again for this great file, my niece loves the book effect š
hi, first, this thing is awesome as opposed to similar flashbook pieces which cost money, thank you for the freebie!
second, I’ve been using this pageflipper to build a website that is supposed to look like an old book or tome (IE: hardcover). Your file, slightly modified, makes a great “inside” to my book site, but I need to somehow make the outside so that the cover appears above the pages when it is closed and below the pages when it is opened. What I thought is, I could make the page flip file into a self contained movie clip and place it in between the back and front cover images, is this at all possible?
I would be supremely grateful if you could help me out with with.
Hi, my project works great and the tutorials are helpful, but now my boss wants a combo box below the page flip book to easily skip around pages. I tried placing a combo box component onto my stage, only to find all of the script was done in AS 1.0 (which of course doesn’t support components) and changing the project file to 2.0 would mean editing all of my code. Is there anything you would suggest? Thanks for your help!
Hi, how can I center the pages movie clip, it loads in the left of the scene so I miss a bit of the paper, thanks.
I have my file all set up except for one small problem. The book opens up bigger than what the window on screen will allow me to view. It’s only 8.5″ x 11″ but when you turn a page half of it gets cut off on the left side and you can’t flip it back.
Does anyone know how to fix this??
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve
Hi – I wanted to say I have searched the web for over 2 days constantly and have not found anything as good, easy to use and supportive as what you are offering. I would like to know if I can buy a version of the standard page flip but with hard cover effect and not page curling. Hope you can help.
Cheers,
Hi,
I recently bought the page flip flash,
And it’s working great.. Now, I want to have few pages insted on 24..I now it has to be an even # but were do I change it to have less pages? ..how can I go about it..
please help!! and thanks in advance..
by the way im using FLASH CS3
very imporatant question
How do i put/insert PDF or JPEG file on the pages?
hope for your immediate response
thanks, ur the best