Urgent: Page Turning Code!

If You could explain more presice.
What is "page" here and what do You mean by page turning.

OK, im not exactly sure what you mean, by flip album.

However, if you want to add page control to your app, you can do the following:


 Drop a Tpanel on your form, set its

 align= alBottom.
 caption = ''   (NONE)
 name = pnlButtons


 Place two buttons on the right size of the panel.

 Set the first ones Caption = 'Next' and the second one's caption = 'Prev'

 Name them btnNext, & btnPrev respectively

 Now drop a TPageControl on the form and set its

  align = alClient
  name = pgeMain

Right click on it and create as many pages as you need.
Then, set each of the tabsheets "Tab Visible" property = False


 add a TActionList component to the form

 double click it, and create two new actions

 name the first 'actNext' and the second 'actPrev'

Set the caption's = 'Next' and 'Prev' respectively

 set the actNext's OnUpdate event to the following code

procedure TfrmMain.actNextUpdate(Sender: TObject);
begin
 actNext.Enabled:= pgeMain.ActivePageIndex <> pgeMain.PageCount - 1;
end;

 set the actPrev OnUpdate event to the following code


procedure TfrmMain.actPrevUpdate(Sender: TObject);
begin
 actPrev.Enabled:= pgeMain.ActivePageIndex <> 0;
end;  


Now go back to the two buttons and set their action property in the obbject inspector = to the matching action

 btnNext :

action = actNext


btnPrev :

 action = actPrev


SHane

Hi Shane
And I imagine that he wants some kind of animation, graphic rotation or something like that. Sometimes its really difficult to guess asker intnsions, isn't it.
Marek

Sorry, i forgot the actual page turning.

You will need to set the OnExecute event of each of the two actions

actNext & actPrev

procedure TfrmMain.actNextExecute(Sender: TObject);
begin
 pgeMain.ActivePageIndex:=  pgeMain.ActivePageIndex + 1;
end;

procedure TfrmMain.actPrevExecute(Sender: TObject);
begin
 pgeMain.ActivePageIndex:=  pgeMain.ActivePageIndex - 1;
end;

Yes, it is!

However, if he want's that look as well, he can load a background image that looks like a sheet of notebook paper

http://www.sbac.edu/~tpl/clipart/Education/notebook%20paper.jpg



It all really depends on what type of effect he is looking for, so i guess i will leave it at this - until he explains more

<smile>

Shane

it is an animation effect that appears like the page is turning (like a book page). example is like www.flipalbum.com

Mokule you have the points. I will give you more if you could show me how to curve the image, more like a book page being turned over.

ok, but my solution would habe been much less coding involved.

4 - 6 lines of code, and i bet i could have implemeted the solution


Shane

Never mind, i miss understood, i just tested mokules code, i see what type of effect you wanted.
Sorry, I misunderstood the question.

<Smile>

Shane

The principle on which was based my program was as follows.
The source image rectangle was transfered into destination image parallelogram.

Src image                Dest image
                                      /E
                                    /  |
                                  /    |
A----------B                D     |
|             |                |      |
|             |                |      |
|             |                |    /
|             |                |  /
|             |                |/
C-----------                F


PlgBlt ( PaintBox1.Canvas.Handle,          // Dest image
              tp,                                        // array of points D, E, F
              Image2.Canvas.Handle,          // Src image
              0,                                         // x coordinate of point A
              0,                                         // y coordinate of point A
              FOTWIDTH,                           // width of src rectangle
              FOTHEIGHT,                          // height of src rectangle
              hb, 0, 0);

  If You "divide" Src image into a couple of vertical rectangles and each will be transferred independently it will be possible to more or less simulate curve. This is theory. You must apologize me but because of my "real" duties I can't try to code it yet. If You'll have some patiance may be I'll try to code it in the near future. In kind of good results I'll let You know.
  Besides for achieving curve effect probably better way is use OpenGL or DirectX but I've got too little practice in that area (And lack of time at the moment).

Regards
Marek

Sorry!
Should be of course: I must apologize You.
 It's my poor English.

Marek