I’m an idiot that doesn’t use classes very often – you might want to specifically instruct people to create an ImageLoader.as file and paste the linked code into it because it took me all afternoon to figure out what was going wrong.

The code works great though, thanks!

Now, the error message I’m getting is:
Line 42: ActionScript 2.0 class scripts may only define class or interface constructs.
}

I use Flash Pro 8.

Thanks

What am I doing wrong? I have a feeling it has to do with “classes” – I’m new to classes.

The error message returned was:
Error Scene=Scene 1, layer=action, frame=1:Line 3: The class or interface ‘ImageLoader’ could not be loaded.
var loader:ImageLoader = new ImageLoader();

Thanks

public function setImage(l:String):Void
{
var loader:ImageLoader = new ImageLoader(this);
loader.loadImage(l.toString(), img_mc); // where l is a string coming from loaded xml
}

import com.planche.ImageLoader;

and then on a function:

public function setImage(l:String):Void
{
var loader:ImageLoader = new ImageLoader(this);
loader.loadImage(l, img_mc); // where l is a string coming from loaded xml
}

I’ve made some tracing and the l string is ok, but the image doesn’t load… any help or any problem found..

1) The mLoader instance within the class has no parent MovieClip, and triggers sandbox violations when loading images across domains. Replacing the constructor function remedies the problem:

public function ImageLoader ( targetMc:MovieClip ) {
targetMc.mcLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
mLoader = targetMc.mcLoader;
addListener(this);
}

2) This requires a change in the instantiation code, as the parent(ing) movieClip needs to be passed as an argument:

1. var loader:ImageLoader = new ImageLoader(this);
2. loader.loadImage( “some_image.jpg”, some_mc );

3) We removed this line in the instantiation script:

loader.addListener(this);

The listener is added immediately within the class in the constructor function, so this seems redundant?

Hope this can be used by others needing Flash 8 dynamic bitmap smoothing, and thanks Martijn!

Only unfortunate issue is that it seems to slow Flash down a lot. Is this built into newer (9+) versions of the player, I remember Tinic mentioning a more native smoothing function?