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Preload Dynamically Loaded Jpegs And Fade
I have been researching the forums on information to do this. To be quite honest, I'm still somewhat of a Newb so I'm having difficulty piecing everything together. Here is what I am looking to do!

I would like to preload 10 dynamic jpegs into a movieClip. I want the getBytesTotal function active, showing the progress in the swf preload. I don't want the movie to start playing until the jpegs are loaded. Once they are loaded, I would like them to fade from one another, and loop.

I was going to simply program it within flash, but that's a heavy file, I do know how to simply load dynamic images, but I have no idea how to interact it with a preloader and AS to make them fade.

Any help would be appreciated, if anyone is willing to post a sample file, I usually can figure it out from there.

Thanks

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Preload Jpegs Of A Dynamically Attached Mc
Hi all. Well onjce again I have been scanning the threads and cant find a direct solution to my problem, or at least I dont know how to implement it if I have :s Anyway what I am doing is this.

I am doing the website for a furnitre company that has a large product catalog, around some 200 photos.

In the main swf. I have all the thumbs and when I click on one thumb depending on what category it is, it will load the external swf. and also a variable that says which photo to show (which frame to go to).

for examplle if I click on a thumb of a bed it will load beds.swf with a photo value of 6, which will go to frame 6 in the beds.swf.

Now in beds.swf I am attaching a movie clip with an instance name of beds dynamically into an mc called photo_holder using the attachMovie function.

The beds movie clip has 40 - 50 keyframes with an mc on each frame which then holds the bitmap. So the target to one photo would be _root.photo_holder.beds_attached.bed1

Then I have a gotoAndStop(photo); action where photo is the variable I loded from level0.

Ok the problem is the following.

I can add a preloader onto a scene before everything, however, I only know how to make the preloader load all the photos. I dont want to do this cause if the user wants to view one photo, they have to wait for all 50 high res photos of beds to load, of course, they wont have to wait for the next bed they click on but its still a pain.

I tried doing some tests last night using the getBytesTotal() function but it only seems to return a value if what I am targetting is in the same frame number where I have that action. Otherwise it returns undefined. Since this clip is loaded dynamically, I have no idea how to preload something that hasnt been called on yet. Or in other words, get the Total Bytes of a photo before showing it, or whatever. Its kinda hard to explain, does anybody have any ideas?

I tried _root.photo_holder.beds.bed1.getBytesTotal(); but it always returns undefined.

Thank you very much

Ted

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Alpha Fade In On Jpegs Loaded Into Empty Mc's
I wanna rollover a button and have a jpeg load from my drive... into an empty movie clip. How can I do this without a tween? I have over 100 of these pics and I don't wanna do separate swfs for each. Thanks - Chris

here's what i got so far?

on (rollOver){
_root.empty_mcA.b1.gotoAndPlay(2);
_root.empty_mcA.pr.loadMovie("BAR~1.jpg");
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Help With Dynamically Loaded Jpegs
I am using this tutorial to load jpegs into container mc's
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/loading.htm

The images show up on computers with flash player 8, but not on computers with flash player 7 or below.
any idea why?
and how do i make them show up in flash player 7.
thanks

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I loaded a picture dynamically but it looks very sharp and stands out too much. Is there a way that i could put a border around the picture (probably a mask) to help it to blend in more

heres the code i used to genreate the jpeg.

Quote:

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("imageHolder1", 200);
imageHolder1._x = 160;
imageHolder1._y = 55;
loadMovie("digicel.jpg", "imageHolder1");
stop();

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Hello,

Is there a way to change the properties of a jpeg using loadMovie()? The properties I want to change are the width and height of the picture.

For example, I am loading a picture using this stmt.

loadMovie("Cinema-"+whichPic+".jpg", "square");

where whichPic is simply an integer number. Is there a way to duplicate the mc square and then resize it so that it serves as a thumbnail?

Thanks for your help,
Fabocp

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Preloading Dynamically Loaded JPEGs?
I have three movie clips that each dynamically load a JPEG...i have the code that loads the JPEGs placed on one of the first frames...the problem is that there is a pause or delay...until the JPEGs are loaded...which leaves the screen with a void...and makes you think there is no content...how can I put a preloader that will show the user that the images are being loaded?

thanks,
diabolicalbutter

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Need To Scale Dynamically Loaded Jpegs
Hi,

I'm dynamically loading movies (jpegs) and attaching them to another movie one at a time. Since the jpegs are all different sizes, is there a script I can use to scale all of them to the size of the object that I'm attaching them too? I've been trying to use:

code:
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
loadMovie("../images/image"+whichPic+".jpg", "screen");
this.screen["image"+whichPic+".jpg"]._x = screen._x;

with no success. The image (there's only one at the moment) appears but it's way too big and needs to be scaled to the "screen" object it's attached to.

TIA,
aaroneousmonk

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Dynamically Loaded Jpegs---PROBLEMS
Hey guys
I'm loading JPEGs dynamically from a DB using PHP and LoadVars in FMX. I get the images to load perfectly. but i'm having a problem moving them into proper placement.

Goal= I'm trying to load all the images into a specific area and have them dynamically resized so they all fit within the area (another MC).
I'm creating empty movie clips and loading the jpegs into them.

Problem = The created MCs wont MOVE OR RESIZE!! They'll place properly, but no animation!

i'm using this function for motion:

MovieClip.prototype.slideTo = function(x, y, speed) {
//set up targets and speed variable
this.targetX = x;
this.targetY = y;
this.speed = speed;
//create onEnterFrame function
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
//take care of motion
this._x += (this.targetX-this._x)/this.speed;
this._y += (this.targetY-this._y)/this.speed;
// check if near target
if (Math.abs(this.targetX-this._x)<0.2 && Math.abs(this.targetY-this.y)<0.2) {
this._x = this.targetX;
this._y = this.targetY;
}
};
};
//
//
//and this to place the photos
//

function getPhotos(List) {
x = 0;
for (var item in List) {
//loop thru and get images, place them in
myitem = List[item].filename;
mypic = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("image"+x, x++);
loadMovie("thumbs50/"+myitem+".jpg", "image"+x);
trace (_level0.mypic._width);
_root["image"+x]._width = 100;
_root["image"+x]._height = 100;
_root["image"+x].slideTo(someX, someY,someSPEED);

}
}

where someY, someX, someSPEED, will be generated by another script.

Help!
my code is a little sloppy, its still in the works....
i may be overlooking something small, please help.

You can look at what i mean about the photo placement here, I'm trying to recreate this in flash MX: Distortion Photography
(there's a JS error on the page, click thru it).

Thanks in Advance
Jbot

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i've created a site for a photographer using dynamically loading jpg's to minimize file size. The site works fine on most of the computers i've checked it on, but on some computers, especially macs, the WHOLE site goes down when the first jpg unloads...
does flash player 6 deal with loading and unloading jpegs in the same way as 7? might this be my problem?

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Resizing Dynamically Loaded Jpegs
Hi,
I am loading JPEGs into an MC called pictureHolderMC using "loadMovie" without a problem. But, the JPEGs are different sizes and I need them to be a constant width (100 pixels) so I am using the code below to set this:

Code:
_root.pictureHolder._width = 100;
But when I add this code the JPEG disappears from "pictureHolderMC". I know that "pictureHolderMC" is still there as I put a background colour block in it which still shows up, but without the JPEG.
Ultimately, I will write a function that also sets the "_height" property in proportion, but I need to get the basics of controlling the size to work first.
Any suggestions as to how o achieve this would be much appreciated.

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Centering Dynamically Loaded JPEGs
I know this has been asked a million times- and trust me, I tried everything I could find in these forums, but nothing seems to be working right for me. I have a gallery that dynamically loads JPEGs from an XML file. It uses next/previous buttons to flip through the code.

The main code is:

ActionScript Code:
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
xmlNode = this.firstChild;
image = [];
description = [];
total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
image[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
description[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
}
firstImage();
} else {
content = "file not loaded!";
}
}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("images.xml");
// ///////////////////////////////////
listen = new Object();
listen.onKeyDown = function() {
if (Key.getCode() == Key.LEFT) {
prevImage();
} else if (Key.getCode() == Key.RIGHT) {
nextImage();
}
};
Key.addListener(listen);
previous_btn.onRelease = function() {
prevImage();
};
next_btn.onRelease = function() {
nextImage();
};
// ///////////////////////////////////
p = 0;
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
filesize = picture.getBytesTotal();
loaded = picture.getBytesLoaded();
preloader._visible = true;
if (loaded != filesize) {
preloader.preload_bar._xscale = 100*loaded/filesize;
} else {
preloader._visible = false;
if (picture._alpha<100) {
picture._alpha += 10;
}
}
};
function nextImage() {
if (p<(total-1)) {
p++;
if (loaded == filesize) {
picture._alpha = 0;
picture.loadMovie(image[p], 1);
desc_txt.text = description[p];
picture_num();
}
}
}
function prevImage() {
if (p>0) {
p--;
picture._alpha = 0;
picture.loadMovie(image[p], 1);
desc_txt.text = description[p];
picture_num();
}
}
function firstImage() {
if (loaded == filesize) {
picture._alpha = 0;
picture.loadMovie(image[0], 1);
desc_txt.text = description[0];
picture_num();
}
}
function picture_num() {
current_pos = p+1;
pos_txt.text = current_pos+" / "+total;
}

I tried using the following statement in the actually MC called picture

ActionScript Code:
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if (!this.loaded && this.getBytesLoaded() > 0 && this.getBytesLoaded() == this.getBytesTotal()){
this._x -= this._width/2;
this._y -= this._height/2;
this.loaded = true
}
}
It works for the first image and then does not update when the image changes. I also tried moving minor variations of that code around in the main code blurb above, but it does nothing there. Is there something I can add for it to update on change?

Thanks!

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Getbytesloaded, Dynamically Loaded Jpegs Etc.
hi all
i have searched the site and read all the links on dynamically loaded jpegs listed in cyanblues post above, but i'm still not understanding where i'm going wrong. i'd be grateful for advice:

here's what i'm doing, 1 & 2 work fine but 3 is where it all stop working as I would expect:

1. duplicate the original:
------------------------

ActionScript Code:
for (Mainnumber=0; Main number<(NumberOfItems); Mainnumber++) {
   this.originalMain.duplicateMovieClip("main" + Mainnumber, Mainnumber);
   _root["main" + Mainnumber]._y = (Mainnumber * 75) + 1;
}

2. load jpeg to the symbol: (this script attached to the originalMain)
------------------------

ActionScript Code:
onClipEvent (load) {

myname = this._name;
myMainnumber = myname.charat(4);
barcodenum = _parent.items[myMainnumber];
mainpicfilename = "mainphotos/"+barcodenum+".jpg";
loadMovie(mainpicfilename, this.mainphotos);

}
3. to check the bytes loaded, i am trying this on the next frame
----------------------------------------------

(this just to debug; i would actually have a while {} loop waiting for them all to returnt that they are loaded)

to check just one of the images, inside main1, main2 or main3:

ActionScript Code:
trace(_root.TargetMC.main1.mainphotos.getBytesTotal());
trace(_root.TargetMC.main2.mainphotos.getBytesTotal());
trace(_root.TargetMC.main3.mainphotos.getBytesTotal());

but these always returns a value of 12 -- it must be the byte size of the symbol itself not the jpeg (which is about 100k), even if i loop it 100 times to simulate some wait time....

so my question is how do i do getBytesTotal() (and of course getBytesLoaded() ) on the jpeg so that I can evaluate the difference...?

does it just not work on dynamically loaded jpegs?

i would be grateful if someone could explain the exact procedure for a. dynamically loading the jpegs; b. checking that they are loaded -- i thought i knew what i was doing but, first, it didn't work and second, when i read through the posts mentioned above it really threw me.....

thanks.......

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the pics for the two sites were taken by two different digital cameras, but i optimize them the same way in photoshop.

here's blurry (go to the PHOTOS section):
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The problem is that I cant get the line:
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to work. It seems that Flash have a problem getting the TotalBytes for a dynamically jpeg.

When i set bytes_loaded to a fix number, say 5000, then the preloader works but not wgen I use the command .getBytesTotal()

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Code:
this.pictureframe.onRelease = function() {
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ActionScript Code:
//************
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--------------------

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Code:
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img2_mc.loadMovie(this.img2);
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img4_mc.loadMovie(this.img4);
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img7_mc.loadMovie(this.img7);
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Code:
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