Convert JPG to SWF

[jbradshaw666]

Does anybody know of a way to programatically convert a jpg to a swf file? I have a web site where somebody can upload a jpg and we want to be able to display it as a swf file (need a swf because we want it to retain the aspect ratio even when it's a different size.)

TIA.

 

[kennethkawamoto]

There's no need to convert a JPEG to a SWF as you can dynamically load an external JPEG into a SWF using [tt]loadMovie()/loadMovieNum()[/tt].

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[jbradshaw666]

Kenneth,
Thanks I think. But I don't know what you are talking about when you say 'load movie'. I'm just loading a swf file from an asp.net page. I'm not actually creating the swf file.

I need to be able to have my website allow somebody to upload a file in jpg, and display it in swf so that the swf will take care of the dynamic resizing for me.

Thanks anyway.

 

[kennethkawamoto]

[tt]loadMovie()/loadMovieNum()[/tt] is an ActionScript function, which lets you import an external JPEG file into a SWF and display it at runtime.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[jbradshaw666]

Kenneth,
Thanks but I need to do this programatically NOT through the flash programs. I have a web site where somebody can upload a jpg file and I want to convert it to swf so that it will scale it appropriately. Plus I have other things as part of their picture that I want to do to create the swf file.

But all of this needs to be done through code not through the Flash programs.

Jeffrey.

 

[kennethkawamoto]

By dynamically loading a JPEG into a SWF, you are converting a JPEG to a SWF!

If you insist, there are tools for converting images to SWFs, such as "swfimage" <

http://www.swfx.org/swfimage/index.jsp

> I've never used this but it says you can run as a server app - that's probably what you're after.

However this is totally unnecessary, as [tt]loadMovie[/tt] can load JPEGs. Before Flash 5 (or 4 - can't remember) [tt]loadMovie[/tt] could load only SWF, you had to convert JPEGs to SWFs then. You don't need to do that anymore.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk