Creating an Ebook...???

[littleolemedesigns]

Ok.. basically what I'm wanting to make...

A flash ebook that will let the user click on the corner of the page to manually flip the pages, or allow them to just hit the play button (of course would need a stop button as well) and sit back and watch the ebook play. I want to include sounds and narration and animation on the pages.

This first ebook that I'm doing is a children's book and is only a few pages, but I'll be doing many many more ebooks, so I'd like to make something that I could use as sort of a template if that's possible.

I can find lots of tutorials out there for making a page flip effect, but not giving the option to flip or just play through. I can find tutorials on making play and stop buttons, but not tying them into page flip buttons. I'm not sure if I should just make the book into a movie (same as you would any basic flash animation) and just make the button for the page flip skip ahead to the next "scene" in the movie (ie the next page). Or maybe make it where the movie plays and stops and waits on you to turn the page.

Perhaps making each page into a movie clip and making a button that moves to the next movie clip with the page flip integrated into the beginning of each clip. This wouldn't allow it to be made into a template easily. I would have to animate the page flip with every book.

I'll be doing ebooks of everything from children's books, to cook books, to erotica novels... so it would need to appeal to all ages preferably.

I can find tutorials explaining the individual components, so I guess what I'm looking for is someone that knows something about flash that could help me figure out what type of structure and components I need to pull this off.

[NTD]

Hi,

Of all the flipbook components I've seen, I think this is one of the more flexible and dynamic ones...

http://www.iparigrafika.hu/pageflip/

Download the source files at the bottom of the page.

NTD

[littleolemedesigns]

Thanks.. I'll give it a try!!

[littleolemedesigns]

Oh my gosh.. I just downloaded the flash file for that flip book... how do you even begin to edit that???!!!!

[NTD]

Hi,

Oh my gosh.. I just downloaded the flash file for that flip book... how do you even begin to edit that???!!!!

lol.....I know the code looks a bit daunting if your new to Flash and Actionscript, which from your reply it appears you are. Select the first frame and open the actions panel. The author commented on how to use things...

you can use these functions:

gotoPage( destinationPageNo ); //quick jump to the page number: destinationPageNo; values = 0-maxpages;
autoflip(); //start autoflip (direction is calculated from _xmouse)

ca***ip //it's a variable. setting its value to false disables flipping

other functions of page turning is automatic;

To manipulate the content of the pages, open the library and select the folder called "page elements". You can modify the pages(movieclips) and add as needed.

NTD

[littleolemedesigns]

I'm not an absolute beginner to Flash, but I haven't used Actionscript or Movie Clips or anything yet. I'm trying to learn, but there's just a lot to it.. lol

Thank-You so much for your help!!

[laynechin]

here is a demo http://www.axmag.com/gallery/maya2009/index.html .

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