Power Book

This is a versatile yet easy to use and configure AS3 Flip Book application – XML driven
You can create all your pages directly from the XML , loading their background and content from external images or swf files.
Add text with links, video modules, link areas, add a background music or a contact and share window, easily create a full summary… and much more!

You can add as many pages as you want, and there are so many options you can easily set to configure your book content and appearance.

VERSION : 1.25
[ SWF + SWC + Standalone app (mac&win) ]
[ AS3 – Flash player 10 – FLA : Flash CS4 + CS5 ]

KEY FEATURES :

• Very customizable and fully XML driven, no Flash authoring needed
• Completely fluid layout
• Set the page size as you want (vertical, landscape, etc…), or set it to auto, to match your images/sources
• Support for JPEG , GIF, PNG and SWF —all with dynamic and smooth resizing
• Video support (flv, f4v and YOUTUBE ) with built-in controls and fullscreen mode
• Support for right to left book reading (eastern countries style) and adjustable page numbering
• Area modules, to add rectangular interactive areas on your pages (book page link, external link or JS callback)
• Deep linking
• Easily add a background and multiple interactive logos
• Optional background audio (single mp3 song) with play/mute button
• Automatic slideshow mode
• Summary and Page thumbs viewer
• Fully configurable interface from the XML , with possibility to disable its elements, change their color and transparency, set tooltips and enable sound effects
• Embedded fonts and css stylesheet support
• Comes also as a swc component, to easily add it in another Flash application
• Detailed 30 pages pdf manual, well commented code and easy to modify fla
• SFXs and DEMOs included

DEMO SONG : Passing By

Many updates and new features coming soon…
so please support this project also by voting it!

UPDATES :

14-Feb-12 [v.1.25] new LOGIN feature (to allow a protected access to your books, or to some of their pages); ALL PAGES VIEWER : new options “columns” and “padding” to customize the thumbs grid; PAGES COUNTER : new type value “toolbar” to show it in the middle of the toolbar; new BOOK options: “preload”, to let you choose how many pages to load at start (instead of all), “rtl_reverse_text” to automatic reverse all the texts (useful for rtl languages), “shadow_book_inner_doublepages” to automatically disable the inner book shadow for the double pages; improved support for RTL languages, new option “window_title” for Contacts, Share, Print and Info; HINTS : added the option “open_at_start” to show the first hint as the book starts; new FLASHVARS /SWC options: “xml_cache_busting”, to make xml cache busting optional, “paths_swf_relative” to disable the adding of the swf url to all of the paths, register JS callbacks (SWC only), to disable the registration of the JS callbacks; improvements in the swc for a bettter integration in Flashbuilder/Flex projects, other small fixes and improvements

08-Dec-11 [v.1.22] possibility to call PowerBook functions from JS callbacks, automatically re-opens summary if left open while entering zoom mode, stop slideshow if video starts, added first page preloader, other small fixes

24-Nov-11 [v.1.2] possibility to load YouTube videos as VIDEO modules content (new “id” attribute), new pages and video modules option “disable_global_audio” to temporarily disable the global audio playback, new AREA modules with internal and external links and JS callbacks features, new ZOOM advanced mode (with the new “zoom_control” interface node) to let the user to adjust the zoom factor manually while viewing a page, new “padding_top” and “padding_bottom” book options, possibility to have the pages counter below the book like in zoom mode; TOOLBAR : possibility to change color and alpha to base and buttons (with the new “toolbar” Interface node), possibility to have interactive and animated swf pages now also for double pages, video modules also for double pages, new “show_form” option for the Share and Contacts windows (to remove the email sending form), “open_at_start” option also for the Info window, added the possibility to call PowerBook events (to access application functions like opening a window or starting the slideshow) directly from the pages source swf, added the standalone EXE and APP files in the package, fix for the use of absolute paths, other minor fixes and improvements

07-Aug-11 [v.1.1] videos (flv and f4v) support (with the new VIDEO modules), possibility to resize page content to fit (new “pages_resize_content_mode” Book option), possibility to have pages border only around the book and not in-between (new “border_between_pages” Book option), new Book option “pages_counter_offset” to shift pages numbers, new interface pages_counter “text_of” Global option, new “pagescounter_min_digits” Book option; other minor fixes and improvements

20-Jun-11 [v.1.07] new book option “reading_direction” to read the book from right to left (eastern countries style); SUMMARY : possibility to call JS callbacks, new “open” attribute for the chapters; TOOLBAR : custom buttons can force fullscreen exit; improved HINTS viewer with possibility to set labels and time from XML , new Book option “page_corners_active” to disable book corners interaction, new Book option “page_corners_double_click” to let the user turn the page with just one click (now default); automatic recognition of hyperlinks in external swf text fields, with the added possibility to call pages by their title as well, other minor fixes and improvements