Part of the microsite I’ve been working on requires a page flipping component.

Did some research into finding one that would suit, and found these:

Flash Page Flip – from FREE to $499

Had a go of the free version. This is HTML based so didn’t suit my purposes of importing it into the flash as an internal component, and the license with the source code was out of the budget. Animation feels nice and smooth and there are plenty of page controls, but the page images load in dynamically, so if you are flipping through quite quickly you seem to get a lot of blank pages.

View demo

Page Flip, FlippingBook – from FREE (trial) to $299

I liked the smoothness of this one as well. It also has plenty of page control features and comes in a variety of types:

• FlippingBook HTML Edition – View demo
• Flash Component – View demo
• SWF Object – View demo
• Joomla Component

With the Flash Component you can add ActionScript for external navigation, page links and video. Although no source code is supplied, the component should cover any common uses. Images also load in dynamically. It seems faster than the Flash Page Flip one, although this may be related to the image file sizes. One thing I wasn’t so keen on was that the shadows seemed a bit on the dark side, but overall seems like handy and easy to use page flipping tool.

Dynamic Page Flip v3.5 – from $26 to $435

This page turner offers all the standard page controls, but also has the option of auto page flipping, hard front/back cover, page tearing and right to left written books. Again this one allows you to load in either your image or swf pages dynamically, and is controlled by an XML file. Page turning animation doesn’t quite feel as smooth, but has a lot of extra features and good documentation on how to use it.

View demo

Page Flip v2 – FREE/Open Source

Page Flip also offer a completely free open source version of their Page Flipping component. Has almost all the same features as v3.5, however you import your page images directly into the FLA file.

View demo

So…

These all seem to be really good page turning components with slightly different usage methods and features.

Tags: actionscript, Add new tag, animation, interface, page flip, page turn