resize images

[Fion]

Hi all,
Does anyone know how I could go about resizing images as they are loaded into a movie with loadMovie()? This is for a photo gallery that I am making. When you click on the thumbnail of the picture, a frame fades in and a larger version of that picture is loaded onto that frame. Most of my pictures are quite a bit larger then the "large" frame, so I would like the ability to resize the images as they are loaded. I don't want to actaully change the size of the image, as I have another button that displays the fullsize picture in a blank html page, but resize them into the frame.
Thank you for your help.

 

[pixl8r]

Load the new image into a blank MC (let's say with the instance name "theImage").

loadMovie("imageName.jpg",theImage);
theImage._xscale = 50;
theImage._yscale = 50;

You will most likely want to look into using movieClipLoader.loadClip() instead so you can monitor the progress of the image load.

Hope it helps.

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!

 

[Fion]

Sweet, thanks! Is there a way to detect the size of the picture that I am importing, so that I can know how much to scale it? (I am running on the assumption that pictures may be different sizes, so the same amount of scaling might not be appropreate for all of them.)

 

[billwatson]

you can only detect this after its loaded and the movieclip.onLoad dont work properly in flash

this files fixes the problem

http://billwatson2.no-ip.info/public/flash/preload.as

in frame 1 of the movie

#include "preload.as"

//with a empty clip instance name imageClip

imageClip.onLoad = function() {
//make sure image is always centered
imageClip._x = (stage.width-imageClip._width)/2;
imageClip._y = (stage.height-imageClip._height)/2;
};

 

[Fion]

Thank you, that worked perfectly. Thanks for all your help!