Manipulating images

Instead of solving the problem I tried to work around it (and did).

On the internet I found some information that was usefull. The setMask only seems to work fine when the jpg is loaded completely. They looked at the _width property to make sure the load is complete so I did the same.

I still don't know how to solve the other problem (duplicating a loaded jpg) so instead of doing that I just load it several times.

The result is a working example.

Can someone tell me if the flash player is intelligent enough to load it one time for real and the other times virtual (cache) and if loading it several times takes up more memory ?
I don't know how things are handled internally.

Wilbert

Okay, I found out already. Loading the image 50 times means loading it 50 times. Offline is no problem but online this isn't a solution.
I should have tested before I posted my previous post. Sorry.

Could attachMovie be a solution if it would be supported ?

Here's the working version.
I thought there was nog cache. The problem was that I tried to load 50 times the same image simultaneously in combination with the fact that it wasn't in the cache.
When I first load one image completely and then the other 49 it works fine.

Using the things I learned figuring this out I started working on a more usefull project. It concerns image transitions.
For those who are curious... take a look and tell me what you think of it.
http://www.geboortegrond.nl/koolmoves/transition/

Wilbert

Brilliant Wilbert!

Any chance of sharing the code (or parts of it) to show everyone how this sort of thing is done?

Hilary

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Hi Hilary,

Thank you for your compliment and the xml information.

I most likely will share the code in the begining of january. You see, it's just a one frame empty stage fun file with 300+ lines of actionscript code.

It invloves a lot of calculations and I want to check the code and test it first to make sure it isn't loaded with bugs.

Wilbert

Heya Wilbert,

I am catching up on things - modem, board and a slot got fried during a storm on Christmas Eve so I have been netblind for few days - but looking forward to sussing out your latest stuff.

Thanks for the breakthroughs with the image manipulations.

Owen.

Heya, Bob.

Hope your year end was good.

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My only way to debug these problems is to see a working example made in Flash and to compare it to what Koolmoves is creating. So I would appreciate a working Flash created example.

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Lol, okay. I need Flash-MX to do that. But for you, anything ... :D

I just bought the MM package thingie with lots of programs, including Flash-MX. Now all I need to do is understand how it works ... very busy/noisy screen. But when I get it going, will send you a fla & swf.

:)

Hee Hee...
We won't hear from Owen for a while as he tries to figure out how to use MX :)

Lots of fun though...

Hilary

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hehe.

Well, so far I have figured out how to open the thing ...

:)