How-To's > How do I create a page-over flip?
The page-over flip simulates flipping the pages of a book. It can be effective for presenting images or text. The page-over flip is better suited to entertainment, advertising, or aesthetics-oriented applications than productivity applications.
Use the page-over flip transition when the images or text presented to the user do not need to be seen or processed simultaneously.
To create a page-over flip in the JavaFX Script programming language, start with the code from one of the following samples and modify it to suit your purposes.
Examples
- BookPanel
This sample shows how to build the page-over flip shown in the following screen capture. The red and green rectangles are pages of a book, and the corners can be pulled so that the page flips over.

Last Updated: November 2009
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