hi all.


I'm in the middle on a problem and I need help.
I'm loading an external .jpg and moving it across stage.

if I was to do this with a .jpg already in the Library, the movement would look much better if I manually activated "allow smoothing" from the .jpg's properties.

so I'm trying to do the same for the loaded picture.
what I've done so far is loading the picture, wait until it's completely loaded and then convert the content of the loader to bitmap and setting the smoothing property of this bitmap to true.

...OR, this is what I'm trying to do.
here's my code:

var _loader:Loader;
var _loaderArray:Array = [];
var _picture:String = "billeder/h1.jpg";

loadPicture(_picture);

function loadPicture(s:String) {
	
	var picture:String = s;
	
	_loader = new Loader();
	_loader.alpha = 1;
	_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, showLoading);
	_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, doneLoading);
	_loader.load(new URLRequest(picture));

}

function showLoading(e:Event):void {
	trace("preloading");
}

function doneLoading(e:Event):void {
	
	var bit:Bitmap = e.target.content
	if(bit != null){
		bit.smoothing = true;
	}
	
	addChild(_loader);
	
	trace("e.target.content = "+e.target.content);

	_loader.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, showLoading);
	_loader.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, doneLoading);

}

am I doing this correctly?


thanks
felisan

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http://www.campjohn.dk/wp/

[Laveklint]

Hey Felisian

try this

function doneLoading(e:Event):void 
{
	var bit:Bitmap = e.target.content as Bitmap;
        bit.smoothing = true;
        
        _loader.addChild( bit );
	addChild(_loader);

	_loader.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, showLoading);
	_loader.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, doneLoading);

}

[felisan]

hi Laveklint.


sorry, that's no good, gives me this error:
Error: Error #2069: The Loader class does not implement this method.
at Error$/throwError()
at flash.display::Loader/addChild()
at ArrayStuff/doneLoading()



thanks
felisan

[Laveklint]

sorry about that.. don´t know what I was thinking about.

try this instead:

// create a new sprite that will hold the loaded image
var _imageContainer:Sprite = new Sprite();
var _loader:Loader;
var _loaderArray:Array = [];
var _picture:String = "billeder/h1.jpg";

loadPicture(_picture);

function loadPicture(s:String) {
	
	var picture:String = s;
	
	_loader = new Loader();
	_loader.alpha = 1;
	_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, showLoading);
	_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, doneLoading);
	_loader.load(new URLRequest(picture));

}

function showLoading(e:Event):void {
	trace("preloading");
}

function doneLoading(e:Event):void {
	
	var bit:Bitmap = e.target.content as Bitmap;
        bit.smoothing = true;

	// this line will add the loaded content to the _imageContainer-sprite
	_imageContainer.addChild( bit );

	_loader.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, showLoading);
	_loader.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, doneLoading);

}

[felisan]

thanks!

anyway, project ended, and I have summed a bit up here:
http://www.campjohn.dk/wp/?p=996

I'm not sure how useful it really is, but I know that I in the future will try to combine moving pictures like that with the "Ken Burns" effect to hopefully make it smoother.



kind regards
felisan