Comments on: Flex FlipCard Component

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:46:38 +0000

@Josh Bell Hmm, that's a tough one. It sounds similar to the issue Edgar (above) is having, related to the PaperVision3D library. Unfortunately I don't know an easy solution. Hopefully some smart person will contribute to the project, though, and submit a patch. If you happen to figure out anything please feel free to post back. Sorry I can't be of more help to you guys!

By: Josh Bell

Josh Bell — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:05:12 +0000

Hi Jason. Digging the Flipcard! I just have one question. I’m using it on a popup opened via popupManager. When I flip the panel, it appears as though the edge that grows taller during the flip effect gets clipped by the parent container. I don’t, however, have any widths on the parent that might cause this. Is there something I can do or something I’m doing wrong?

Thanks for your help.

By: Edgar Miranda

Edgar Miranda — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:27:08 +0000

Ahh, thanks for the quick response! I was assuming that was the issue (I worked with Papervision3D myself). I’m just a bit surprised that a component actually brings itself up to the highest depth. Isn’t this bad encapsulation on Papervision’s end?

Anyways, thanks for the response and the component, I’ll let you know if I figure anything out.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:47:08 +0000

@Edgar Miranda
Hey Edgar, I hadn’t seen that before , but probably because I haven’t ever covered over a flipcard, yet still made it accessible underneath the popup. my guess is that the core animation effect in PaperVision or even the Flash Player might be causing that..?

Since I basically just packed together those effects into a usable component, I don’t have the deep understanding of how the actual 3D math works at the low level, so I probably would have a hard time fixing it. I would probably look into a workaround of disabling the flip button when it is not in focus?

By: Edgar Miranda

Edgar Miranda — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:33:45 +0000

Hi Jason, thanks for this great component! It’s quite a neat a effect, one issue that has come up though is that it looks like the component puts itself on the highest depth when the flipping occurs. Say for example if I have another component on top of the flipCard component (so for example a pop up window), even though the component covers up the entire flipCard component, when the
flip actually happens, you can see it go through. Is this an easy fix?

Thanks!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:58:47 +0000

Hi Anmol, I haven’t seen that before it would be hard for me to say it could be a reaction of other code. We use the FlipCard here on a desktop AIR application so that is not a problem. If you think you found a bug and can reproduce it, please definitely submit a bug w/ steps to reproduce on the google code project page and I’ll work to get it fixed.

By: Anmol

Anmol — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:28:33 +0000

Any comments on previous post of mine…., well its working well for first time but when i load it again the effect does not appear, I am using popupmanager to show the flip effect, once user clicks on a button of popup it is removed and on select of an item from the main screen popup reappears with data loaded in the control.
it flips, only for the first time. any reason for this…..

By: Anmol

Anmol — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:58:24 +0000

Can we use this is desktop application as i implemented this in my flex desktop app its not working fine first time it works and second if i use the same component and use the button to toggle the controls the effect disappears .contents of both front and back control under flipcard control loads properly but the flip effect disappears

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:46:22 +0000

just a note to let everyone know that the FlipCard has been completely re-written and the full source is now available at http://code.google.com/p/flipcard/ Just about all of the issues mentioned in the comments have been addressed including separating the flip button, making the component usable in design view and many other improvements. The original release also had some memory leaks which have been fixed as well. Please feel free to join the project on google code and contribute. Thanks!

By: pradeep

pradeep — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:31:18 +0000

hi can you tell me how can remove corner button of this component. actually i want to flip this component on event dispatching. so i dont want that corner button should not be display