dynamicaly crop a movieclip

[andremyr]

Hey guys!

Situation. I have a jpg in my movie. I need to create a movieclip from part of this jpg. In other, and maybe even more clumsy words: coordinates are loaded into my movie from the db and dynamicly creates a new movieclip from the jpg image.. this new mc shows a smaller part of the jpg.

(or sort of like the 'crop' function in image applications..)

Please let me know if the question was badly formulated.

Any help is appreciated.

[marcus_ren]

create a dynamic mask over the image mc, you can then change the size of the mask to be the size you want and then delete it when you don't need it anymore

[andremyr]

That doesn't seem to do it for me

Look here to see what I'm trying to do:
http://www.inbusiness.no/tananger/

Click on 'Cape' and then Zoom. The zoom effect has to be created from a movieclip (also created dynamicaly) that is initially created from some coordinates and then enlarged.

Hope that makes my problem easier to understand.

Thanks

.. and keep on flashing!

[marcus_ren]

i think that the way to do this would be to duplicate your background image into a new movie clip and then make a mask of a certain size over the coordinates that you are using. I don't think that it is possible to crop the image itself in flash. You can then enlarge your mask and the duplicate picture to get the zoom affect...

i don't know if this answers your question, probably not, but I'm not the most versed flash person in the world either.

marcus