ImageLoader class for Flash 8
This piece of code has been lying around for some time. I wrote it due to the fact that Flash 8 doesn’t smooth dynamically loaded images by default. This means that scaling and rotating any dynamically loaded image will make it look “jagged”.
The first (for as far as I know) to write Flash code to circumvent this issue was Master Tinic Uro himself; he is one of the engineers at Adobe working on the Flash Player. He wrote a handy function to load an image dynamically and then smooth it using a neat BitmapData / MovieClip trick
I wrapped his idea and some extras (events from MovieClipLoader class are relayed and the PNG transpareny solution is also included) in a single class I dubbed ImageLoader (duh).
Usage is as follows:
- var loader:ImageLoader = new ImageLoader();
- loader.addListener(this);
- loader.loadImage( “some_image.jpg”, some_mc );
In the sample above, the ‘this’ context will receive all events normally fired by the MovieClipLoader class while loading an image.
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August 22nd, 2007 at 21:15
Many thanks for sharing your work and effort.
I also don’t like open flash to view flv files.
Thanks and good job for you.
September 2nd, 2007 at 12:22
Thanks a lot for that piece of code. I’ve been searching some of this for two weeks ago. I also found some script for solve this problem (using class BitmapData), you can read about it in my blog (in spanish…).
[http://www.evostudio.com/litus-host/litus-blog/lb_02/post.php?view_p_id=47]
Bye!
October 31st, 2007 at 4:41
Very useful piece of code, thanks for that.
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?