[ActionScript] haXe: Scaling External Image to Fit?

[ActionScript] haXe: Scaling External Image to Fit?

Billybob

Member #3,136

January 2003

I'm loading an external image into a new, empty MovieClip and it isn't scaling to fit the size of the flash player.

1import flash.MovieClip;
2 
3class Test {
private static var app:Test;
private static var mc:flash.MovieClip;
6 
public function new() {
  flash.Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
  flash.Stage.align = "TL";

  mc = flash.Lib.current;
  var tmc = mc.createEmptyMovieClip("s1_", mc.getNextHighestDepth());
  tmc.loadMovie("sunflower.jpg");
  
  tmc._x = flash.Stage.width/2;
  tmc._y = flash.Stage.height/2;
  tmc._width = flash.Stage.width;
  tmc._height = flash.Stage.height;
  
  trace(tmc._xscale);
  trace(tmc._yscale);
  
  tmc._xscale = 0.5;
  tmc._yscale = 0.5;
}
public static function main() {
  flash.Lib.setErrorHandler(myHandler);
  app = new Test();
}

static function myHandler(msg : String, stack : Array<String> ) {
  trace("Error : "+msg);
}
34}

I've tried and tried to get it to scale by setting xscale and width and so forth, but every time I do the image just disappears. Any ideas?

Thank you.

EDIT: Setting the scale works (apparently it's 50 == 50% instead of 0.5), but I don't know the size of the image to begin with so I can't scale it properly.

bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

Why do you need to know the size of the image to scale it? :-/ If there is a property that automatically scales the image then shouldn't it work to indicate the same scale for both axises (is axises a word? I don't know)? :-/

** EDIT **

Without knowing exactly what I'm looking for I found this post* on another forum that claims to know how to get image dimensions... :-/ I don't know if haXe is different from Flash's ActionScript or not nor which versions of ActionScript this is supported in...

SteveMania@forums.macrumors.com said:

I know this is an old thread, but I am sick of reading posts that i personally want answers for and there not being one after all of that reading! Below is how you should load images and gain access to their height/width and so on... The answer is onLoadInit(); onLoadComplete will not work because all of the variables and things are not initialized until the onLoadInit(); Hope this saves someone some time!

Use the MovieClipLoader object (with a Listener):

1var my_mcl       : MovieClipLoader  = new MovieClipLoader();
2var mclListener  : Object           = new Object();
3 
4mclListener.onLoadProgress = function(target_mc:MovieClip, numBytesLoaded:Number, numBytesTotal:Number):Void
5{
6    var pctLoaded:Number = Math.ceil(100*(numBytesLoaded/numBytesTotal));
7    // This will get you the percent amount loaded for use in a preloader, etc...
8};
9 
10mclListener.onLoadInit = function(mc:MovieClip):Void
11{
12    // This is the method that will return the  proper values for height/width
13    trace("LoadInit Rules! " + mc._width);
14}
15 
16my_mcl.addListener(mclListener);
17my_mcl.loadClip(imageVariable, MovieClipToLoadImageInto);

- Source

** EDIT **

I didn't get a chance to read through it, but this (Flash MX) or this (Flash MX 2004/8) might help as well.

_{* I formatted the code for readability and prettiness.}

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