ActionScript 3.0 :: Placing And Sizing External Images
Nov 28, 2011
For some background: I'm creating some e-learning modules using a client's existing Flash/AS/XML template. There is another separate file that is loading XML content and directing the "flow" or progression of the module. Basically, it is broken up into three parts:
1. Chapter = a selection made from a main menu (<chapter> in the XML) and is a large section; it is comprised of one to several "pages"
2. Page = sections within the chapters that users can progress to via navigation buttons; each page represents a separate Flash/SWF file with several clips (driven by audio clips played by another AS file from the XML direction). Also, each page has a certain AS file (only ONE) associated with it to either create interactivity, an activity, or text placement.
3. Clip = audio-driven parts of each page; represented within each 'page' FLA/SWF by keyframes. These modules are being produced for two languages - thus the use of AS/XML to pull in text from two different files. We also have the need to pull in images using AS from the XML files. These images are essentially screenshots; some are large, some are small. Depending on text placement, we may want to resize images to make them fit within a certain space. Can you all suggest the best way to resize/scale these images dynamically. Basically, if the image's width is over 570 pixels or the height is greater than 550 pixels, I want to resize it so it fits within that 570x550 space. You can see the code that I tried (in "//") that didn't work. Feel free to comment on other aspects of the code.
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The end result won't matter, once the program is finished (images sitting in IDE or images loaded externally)I work off of a laptop most of the time, cheap laptop, so if I have 5 Megs of images sitting in my Flash IDE, every time I troubleshoot (run the movie, F5), it takes at least 5 seconds before I can test my movie, and when you have to test it 4000 time a day it adds up . If I were to load everything externally, would this knock off the testing time drastically, considering I am not adding the images to the stage (just have them load, and stored in arrays)?
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