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I used the following lines to setup your CoverFlow file with Phunky branch of Papervision 1.9:

var coverFlowData:Array = [{title: "item title", clickUrl:"http://mysite.com", imageUrl:"ImageFlow/pic/1.jpg"}];
var camera:Camera3D = new Camera3D();
var container:Sprite = new Sprite();
var scene:Scene3D = new Scene3D(container);
addChild(container);
var coverFlow = new CoverFlow(stage, container, camera, scene, coverFlowData);

but I get the following errors:
DisplayObject3D: null
DisplayObject3D: null
Papervision3D Beta 1.9 - PHUNKY (20.09.07)

DisplayObject3D: null
0: 5
DisplayObject3D: null
TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
at com.webeyestudio::CoverFlow/::shiftCoverFlow()
at com.webeyestudio::CoverFlow/com.webeyestudio::imageLoaded()

Can you suggest any solution to solve the problem I am having?

@John Dyer
Thanks for the quick response. I appreciate it.

hi there!
as i tried to start the coverflow from the .fla in the zip,
i got some errors, i´m not quite sure how to manage them.

as far as i see, there is a problem with the AS3 Tweener Class I installed:

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Hi, great job man!
First of all i'd like to thank you for the code, is really cool.
I m trying to implement it, but just can't make the InteractiveScene3DEvents in the planes work. I wonder if you could help me with that.
P.D: I am using PHUNKY (20.09.07)
Thanks in advance.

Hi !

First i'd like to congrate you for your great work ! But i'm such a noob in flash and i've tryed severals times to made your coverflow working with my flickr ID but i got 3 errors when i compile my .fla

I think i've got trouble with tweener but i don't know how to use it, could you please help me

thanks Fab.

Hey man -- great work! This looks to be the best CoverFlow component out there yet. The movement is very smooth. Have you looked at killing the unnecessary idle time rendering as done in Doug's implementation?

~ Chris

Hi,
your cover flowrocks! And reading this article I discovered both papervision and tweener... awesome stuff, thank you.
but...
I have a little problem, when i try to use you .fla, after the installation of papervision and tweener, I get this errors that I can't fix ..

ten error with this description

I've been looking around for an AS3.0 cover flow and yours is by far the best so thank you very much for sharing your code. However, I am having a couple problems getting the code to work on my cpu. Here are the main errors I am getting...

CoverFlow.as line 168: planeMaterial.interactive = true
CS3 doesn't recognize the interactive property of PV's BitmapMaterial

CoverFlow.as line 218: if (!showReflections || ev.y <= ev.displayObject3D.extra.height )
CS3 doesn't recognize the y property of PV's InteractiveScene3DEvent

FlickrFlow.as line 59: scene = new Scene3D( container, true )
CS3 expects one argument where you give Scene3D two arguments

I am using PV 1.5 and Tweener 1.26.62 both from code.google.

Help would be greatly appreciated, as I am doing my best to learn the PV class.

please John, do a favor and publish 2.0 code. Thanks!

please John, publish 2.0 code. Thanks you too!

Great work,

Having trouble finding how the scrollbar works. no scrollbar is defined
in the call to GenericScrollbar(_stage, scrollbar, scrollbar);

Thanks

hey. i a very small amount of flash knowledge. i'd like to post a flash cover flow of some images i have.. i like the one you have here on your site, but i'm not exactly sure what i have to do in order to do that. could you help me out? thanks for your time.

I don't understand how to implement it.

If you change the size

CoverFlow(stage, camera, scene, coverFlowData, true,390,325)
(instead of 240/200) the clipping is horrible.

Any ideas how to enable a larger display of items?

Nevermind - it's a fault of PV3d, not the script..

If you increase the size of the items, of have more items on the stage at once (say 1400pixels wide) then you get clipping..

When I ported this to flex I got clipping from about 6 items left and on, and 6 items right and on..

The fix is to move out (decrease your Z-index value) and zoom in with the camera (like a zoom of 4 and a z of -700)

John,
This is awesome stuff but it seems like there is a problem with the eventListener added to the plane. Sometimes it doesn't register a click at all and other times it will send me back the wrong index. I noticed you have the same problem on the two examples you posted so I'm wondering if this is a problem with papervision 2.0.

John, Thank you so much for the quick reply. I appreciate you making this open source. When you post the working 1.9 code, you will without a question have the best flash coverflow option on the internet.

John,
I'm very interested in using this coverflow in a website my department is working on but as other forum posters have already found, the 2.0 is a little finicky. I was just wondering if posting the 1.9 was anywhere on the horizon.

Thanks,
Jorge

I really love this CoverFlow... It's very smooth, in contradiction to most others.
The only problem I had was trying to put it on a white background, but after a moment of changing and trying i finally found a way to make non greyish reflections.
You should add transparency. I made it work with transparant images, as you would normally see the gradient over other images, and it looked quite nice (www.helphettoneelstuk.nl/links).

Thank you very much, for this wonderfull CoverFlow (for which I had been looking quite some time)

hi,

verry nice work!!
where do i have do change the paths to PV and Tweener?

thx 4 answer
sebastian

Very nice script but 2 question :
where are the images (covers), how define it
How integrate the SWF to a simple web page ?

thanks

Very nice coverflow One of the most 'apple like' But hey... Could you explain me how to use this ? I'm a noob in flash and just dunno what to do... How to put images? How to get this thing working What to do if i want to open a bigger version of image when clicking on a cover?

Thanks 4 answer!!

Oh... And where can i find PV 2.0 if i need it?

Hi John, i succed in custom your coverflow and integrate it on my future website project, it's excellent ! but there is one problem, the fact to click the on left or on right cover with the mouse don't work everytime, it don't scroll and move the wanted item and center it, sometimes it work when click on scroll bar or use keybord arrows but not everytime, i have PV2.0 like u said and tweener and right configured the AS files source, so i have made my own searches, look papervision as files and haven't find why i do it, but i'm sure that it's happen hre, on CoverFlow.as file, under the mousedonwHandler private function :

var index = viewport.hitTestMouse().displayObject3D.extra.planeIndex;

please tell me more, thank you very much, very nice script, apolozige my speaking.

your example is cool...thanks for providing the code.
I'm having problems though: the coverflow shelf can't seem to be able to stick to the center of the screen and it always loads and displays in the bottom right corner..

(I'm new to Papervision3d) I tryied moving the camera, moving the scene, moving the viewport, adding them to a container e and move the container...but I couldn't make it mode from the lower right corner
I used the greatWhite branch

do you have any tips on how one could center the shelf?
any documentation on what the viewport3d does? how is it different from the scene?

thanks alot anyways

Hello, John. Splendid piece you have here. I would like to use this on my websites, but I don't know beans about Flash (I have vCS3, however). If there is a tutorial available for nooblings, or an IRC chan, or something, google hasn't come up with it. So, um... help? I need help with what elements of GreatWhite to download and where to put them, where to put the Tweener files, and how to edit the AS's and FLV to have my pictures show (that might be all, but I don't know).

Thanks in advance

Oh, and you can get me at achythlook(a)google(dot)com, if you wish

I got a bunch of errors. Possibly somebody could help.
I am a Newbee to Papervision, but "Yet Another Coverflow" is perfect!
I really want to get it work.


I used TortoiseSVN to get the latest Papervision-Repository 442.

Then i configured Actionscript3.0 path to \branches\GreatWhite\src.
Tweener Class i put to \en\First Run\Classes\FP9.

------
Occouring errors are: (CoverFlow.as)

Line 177: 1119: Access of possibly undefined property interactive through a reference with static type org.papervision3d.materials:BitmapMaterial.

Line 229: 1119: Access of possibly undefined property y through a reference with static type org.papervision3d.events:InteractiveScene3DEvent.

Line 313,326,337 1120: Access of undefined property Tweener.

Line 29 1172: Definition caurina.transitions:Tweener could not be found.
----

So i change AS3 classpath to \as3\trunk\src... this i've read anywhere i think in the papervisionwiki...

Only one Error occours:
Line 67 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Viewport3D.

I really would but can't help myself.

I would really happy if somebody of you could help a little...

Sorry for my bad english, it's been years ago i spoke the last english word....

Thank you.
Chris

hey John, great thing you created here!

but I found the same bug as nono (earlier comment)....clicking on an item (image) doesnt always work...I found a way to reproduce it: fire the thing up, then click ABOVE the items in the 'empty black area'....then try clicking an item again and it won`t work...I tried to fix this myself but haven`t been succefull (yet!) and hop it is easy for you to fix....I will keep trying though and if I succeed I`ll be sure to post a comment here!

thanx John,

greetings!

Hi John,

Thx a lot for your great job, really huge !
But like some others here, I can't have the click work each time on the pictures... :-(
I've spent hours tryin' to fix it but without any result... :-(
The only thing I found out is that the clicks work when I comment out this line :
"if ( !showReflections || ev.y <= ev.displayObject3D.extra.height ) { "
If it can help...
Still workin' on it, I'll let you know if I find any solution...

Take care.

Charly

@charly: unfortunately that doesnt solve it.....when you read my comment and follow those 'instructions' you`ll see it still doesnt work

if the whole thing works from the start seems to depend on where you have your mouse pointer when you export the movie (i do this in my flash IDE with <ctrl><enter>

John, that's beautiful.

I'm new to actionscript and wondering how I can use this coverflow to load local images.

Thanks alot,

first of all, thanks for sharing this great piece of work. I first had the 'cant click' problem, but found a workaround for that issue.

Now I lost my head while trying to figure out a procedure to 'reset' the coverflow in order to reinitialize it with a different array of pictures. The problem is -and it cant be a big deal lol- I dont really get to remove the created scene / planes / objects from the stage before the reinitialization...so it places a new (working) coverflow on top of the existing items in the scene / viewport. Any help on the on the 'removal' of the created objects would be greatly apprecciated.

once again, respect for that work and the 'open-sourcing'

d_fyah

Hi John,
Firstly, thanks for publishing this code - I have implemented my own CoverFlow style interface and was concerned that the scene was being rendered on every frame (a little overkill) - this is what brought me to your implementation. I also experienced intermittent issues when selecting items with the mouse. It seemed to appear that if the mouse was not located over the Coverflow as it started up then certain mouse events are not being handled correctly by Papervision.
I've found a workaround, it may not be the best solution, but it maintains rendering only when necessary.Firstly it involves adding 2 more event listeners to the viewport interactiveSceneManager

viewport.interactiveSceneManager.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_MOVE,vpMouseMove);
viewport.interactiveSceneManager.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_OUT,vpMouseOut);

In the mousemove handler function add the following code
if(viewport.hitTestMouse().displayObject3D is Plane){ viewport.interactiveSceneManager.removeEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_MOVE,vpMouseMove);
viewport.interactiveSceneManager.updateRenderHitData();
}

and in the mouseout handler function add
viewport.interactiveSceneManager.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_MOVE,vpMouseMove);

This seems to work for me - obviously it may be improved as you will inevitably get multiple updates to updateRenderHitData. I'll leave it to you guys to improve upon, but I hope it helps someone.

Hi John,

Further to your help yesterday I did some investigation (tinkered) and I hit upon another problem but this time I also come armed with the solution , you may want to include this in your version to help with potential future issues.

While the solution you gave me yesterday helped, it did indeed allow the reflections to work on a white background but it didn't allow the reflections to work on any background as they weren't transparent so I have changed a few bit of code to provide arguably better reflections that have a transparent gradient so that they can be used with any background.

Please find code changes to the CoverFlow class below:

before*
bmpWithReflection.draw( bmp, flipMatrix, new ColorTransform(alpha, alpha, alpha, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0));

after*
bmpWithReflection.draw( bmp, flipMatrix, new ColorTransform(alpha, alpha, alpha, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0),BlendMode.LAYER );

and...

before*
holder.graphics.beginGradientFill( GradientType.LINEAR, [ 0x000000, 0x000000 ], [ 0, 100 ], [ 0, 0xFF ], gradientMatrix);

after*
holder.graphics.beginGradientFill( GradientType.LINEAR, [ 0x000000, 0x000000 ], [ 100, 0 ], [ 0, 0xFF ], gradientMatrix);

before*
bmpWithReflection.draw( holder, m );

after*
bmpWithReflection.draw( holder, m,null,BlendMode.ALPHA );


All done

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Performance is a valid point, but so far I haven't seen any substantial performance issues. It's all good

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I got the same problem like chris

Occouring errors are: (CoverFlow.as)

Line 177: 1119: Access of possibly undefined property interactive through a reference with static type org.papervision3d.materials:BitmapMaterial.

Line 229: 1119: Access of possibly undefined property y through a reference with static type org.papervision3d.events:InteractiveScene3DEvent.

Line 313,326,337 1120: Access of undefined property Tweener.

Line 29 1172: Definition caurina.transitions:Tweener could not be found.

can someone help???
thx

oh sorry, not the same problem, but i think it's very similar:

1061: Call to a possibly undefined method calculateMultiply4x4 through a reference with static type org.papervision3d.core:Matrix3D.1061: Call to a possibly undefined method calculateMultiply4x4 through a reference with static type org.papervision3d.core:Matrix3D.1061: Call to a possibly undefined method calculateMultiply4x4 through a reference with static type org.papervision3d.core:Matrix3D.

did they change the papervision code? or whats the problem!
thx for help!

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I'm getting these errors:

weird, the actual content of my errors didn't display.. here's a screenshot

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totally unsure what to do.
any ideas?
it's very much appreciated!

i should add that i'm using the GreatWhite Papervision version and have specified "caurina" as the directory that contains Tweener 3d

Hi John, Looks awesome, but I am having some trouble getting it to compile, What revision number of great white did you use, it looks like they changed a couple methods in Face3D.as, I get a bunch of errors on line 165, a little poking around and I think they changed drawFace3D() to drawTriangle() and the params are a little different.

I have the latest revision of great white (532) but maybe I need to go backwards a few revisions if you haven't updated your code in a while - I am guessing you posted the 2.0 version in Nov 07?

So if you could let me know what revision of great white you are using that would be awesome.

Thanks in advance

Chris

hi John, thanks for sharing the code.
is there any license needed to use the cover flow in one of my projects?
well done!

Soenke

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This is the first clone I've found that really feels like CoverFlow. Excellent work.

anyone know how to get this to work in flex

Hey John, Great work on your amazing Coverflow. I was hoping to try a simpler treatment of this which just loaded image files from an XML source file. Little did I know how difficult is was going to be! : ) Anyway I seem to have most of the issues resolved stripping out the text and click through references in the FlickerFlow.as file but I'm really struggling with CoverFlow.as. The problem all seems to stem from …

line 119// imageLoader.load( new URLRequest( coverFlowData[currentLoaderIndex].imageUrl ), loaderContext );

imageUrl hasn't been defined anywhere in this file so I'm getting a a error message…

TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.

Any advise would be awesome.

thanks, Jim

Thanks John. I've resorted leaving the code as you had it originally and using Yahoo's XML namespace to get round the problem for now. Not exactly tidy but does the job! A simpler version would still be great to have. I've also noticed that resizing the viewport in FlickerFlow.as trips out when it goes for the Coverflow.as. file

hi,
is it possible to use the coverflow without flickr? i like to use it with pictures from a folder. is there an easy way?
thanks.

This seems to have happened over the last weekend. I had it working
on Friday.

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at CoverFlow/::imageLoaded()
Error opening URL 'http://file:/crossdomain.xml'
Failed to load policy file from http://file:/crossdomain.xml

I really like this coverflow. Great work! And I'd also like to use it with a simple xml file pointing to pictures in a folder etc. Looking forward to that version.

I have just a question from CoverFlow.as line 320
dispatchEvent(new CoverFlowEvent(CoverFlowEvent.ITEM_FOCUS, newCenterPlaneIndex));
Commenting out this line seems to have no effect whatsoever on
the functionality of the app.

Comment 2: The source is missing a ; after this statement. line 166
Amazing enough the CS3 does not seem to care until you start making
changes to the code then it gets real confusing.

holder.graphics.beginGradientFill( GradientType.LINEAR, [ 0, 0 ], [ 0, 100 ], [ 0, 0xFF ], gradientMatrix) !!! missing ; !!!



Also
Well It seems be slightly less broke then it was. Now it loads one picture before you get the following:

Connection to http://file:/apps/video/video_mtl_xml.gne?v=x&photo_id=null&secret=null&olang=null&noBuffer=null&bitrate=700&target=_blank halted - not permitted from www.flickr.com/.../stewart.swf
Error #2044: Unhandled securityError:. text=Error #2048: Security sandbox violation: www.flickr.com/.../stewart.swf cannot load data from http://file:/apps/video/video_mtl_xml.gne?v=x&photo_id=null&secret=null&olang=null&noBuffer=null&bitrate=700&target=_blank.
at PlaylistParser/loadPlaylistUrl()
at Stewart/::initialize()
at Stewart$iinit()

EXCELLENT,EXCELLENT CODE!!!! For those having trouble with dynamic centering, it's as easy as using the stageWidth/stageHeight properties. Worked like a charm.

Is there a simple example somewhere of how to use the latest version of the code?

John, can you help me place this on a white background? Itried using the method described by "rd" on April 3rd, but the image still appears to have a black background behind it.

Nice and simple, thanks.

In FlickFlow, instead of the "stupid hack" to properly get the title, just get the first title node:
var t:String = entryNode.title[0].text();

You're just getting a double title because of the additional flickr <media:title> node.

Hi,
first of all i wanna say:"great job", i have done something very similar to that but now i am stuck into a problem...i would like to have some alpha effect within the shifting, somehow i cannot make it work, plane doesnt't get alpha...any ideas how could i make fade effect.

best regards

Hi,

Anyone know how many planes can I render with it ?
1000 is possible ?

thanks.

Does anyone here know where I can find a tutorial on this step by step?
Thanks

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Hi,

Great work!!! Just one question, is it possible to make this a continuous cover flow?