> Yahoo yuked on itself last night, so not sure if you > ever got your remote > shared libraries to work?
No, I was waiting to hear more from you about how to do it. Based on your previous emails and those links I now understand how attachMovie works (in conjunction with Object.registerClass) and I can manipulate those well (it's a pain because there's no error message if you get the linkage name wrong!). But I'm not sure what to do to explore remote shared libraries. It's nice to hear Flash 9 fixes this problem, but that's not something we will be allowed to take advantage of for a long time, until we can be confident most of our users have switched. Thanks, Greg > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:25 AM > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Anyone know the answer? > Embed images in one > MovieClip, use in another? > > > Thanks. I believe duplicateMovie doesn't work. > From > the documentation of duplicateMovie: > > "If you have loaded a movie clip using > MovieClip.loadMovie() or the MovieClipLoader class, > the contents of the SWF file are not duplicated. > This > means that you cannot save bandwidth by loading a > JPEG > or SWF file and then duplicating the movie clip." > > It baffles me why this is not allowed. Does anyone > know? My guess is the developers ran into some > issues > and decided the easiest way around it was to pretend > it was intended. > > The further problem, as you say here, is I have to > move the clip around by hand, which eliminates the > entire reason to use Flex, to try to organize our > "apps" in a slightly object-oriented way. > > I believe Jester said this a day or two as well, > that > assets cannot be shared. I'm starting to feel this > is > impossible with a capital I, but it still feels like > there may be some very low-level way to do > it--Remote > Shared Libraries? > > The other option is to quit and get a job at > In-and-Out Burgers. I think I'm going to do that. > > Greg > > > --- Shade Gmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > In the past I've worked through this kind of > > thing by loading external > > .SWFs dynamically and duplicateMovieClip()ing (or > > moving them) what I needed > > to the appropriate positions. That was Flash 7. It > > was ugly, but it worked > > as long as you didn't need any fancy depth work. > > > > Recently I've done similar stuff in Flash 8 using > > BitmapData, which works > > great (and pretty easily too) if you're working > with > > simple bitmap images. > > Actually, it should work well with generic > > movieclips as well (see the ... > > draw() method, I believe. Something like that). > > > > I'm not aware of a "Flex way" to do what you want. > I > > do hope there is one, > > it is certainly lacking. > > > > Cheers and good luck, > > > > Pedro. > > > > > > On 7/24/06, G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Jester-- > > > > > > Your example here is exactly what we don't want > to > > do. > > > We don't want to embed all the images we need > into > > > the swf--it makes the file size too big. > > > > > > However, we don't want to load the images > > dynamically > > > each time we need them--that's too slow. > > > > > > Our application is a game that uses pictures. > > Players > > > play the game for a while with one set of > images, > > then > > > they change to a new set of images. > > > > > > What we want is to have something like "sets" of > > > images that we can load one time then use > > repeatedly. > > > So when the player first starts the game, they > > will > > > get the images from Set1.swf (for example). Then > > when > > > it's time to change images, we will load a new > > set, > > > Set2.swf, etc. > > > > > > We only want to load the new images one time, > > because > > > we have to change the source property of Image > > tags > > > repeatedly, and this is costly. > > > > > > If you know another way to do this from what I > am > > > asking about, please tell me! But what we are > > > wondering is if it's possible to load a swf > > containing > > > embedded images, then use those images in the > > loading > > > (host) swf? > > > > > > Thank you! > > > > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > --- JesterXL <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <jesterxl%40jessewarden.com>> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Don't use SWF's. Flex 1.5 & 2 have ways to > embed > > > > them. > > > > > > > > [Embed("my1.jpg")] > > > > var my1_img:Class; > > > > > > > > [Embed("my1.jpg")] > > > > var my2_img:Class; > > > > > > > > [Embed("my1.jpg")] > > > > var my3_img:Class; > > > > > > > > <mx:Image id="img" source="{my1_img}" /> > > > > > > > > Then, have some function swap: > > > > > > > > function swapImage(val) > > > > { > > > > img.source = val; > > > > } > > > > > > > > swapImage(my1_img); > > > > swapImage(my2_img); > > > > swapImage(my3_img); > > > > > > > > You could use setInterval, setTimeout, or > Timer > > to > > > > loop through those... > > > > > > > > ...or use a Flash generated SWF; whatever your > > > > fancy. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <greg556%40yahoo.com>> > > > > To: <[email protected] > > <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>> > > > > Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 11:59 AM > > > > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Anyone know the > > answer? > > > > Embed images in one > > > > MovieClip, use in another? > > > > > > > > > > > > This line: > > > > > > > > <mx:Loader id="container" > source="Container.swf" > > /> > > > > > > > > does not load a swf file containing the > embedded > > > > image > > > > into my application? That is news to me. > > > > > > > > The reason I want to do it is irrelevant to my > > > > question, but here it is: We have an animation > > that > > > > loads many images at once (external images). > > Even > > > > with the images in the browser's cache it is > > > > drastically slowing down the application. > > > > > > > > That embedded images are not loaded is exactly > > the > > > > point. We want to load a swf with several > images > > > > embedded in it, then use those images in the > > > > animation. The point is, we want to load the > > images > > > > dynamically (externally), but not every time > we > > > > change > > > > the source of Image. Just one time, ahead of > > time. > > > > > > > > Since when an Image "loads" an embedded image, > > we > > > > are > > > > not actually loading it at all, we are hoping > we > > can > > > > load the container swf one time, then use its > > images > > > > as embedded images--thus avoiding the > immediate > > load > > > > time every time we change source. > > > > > > > > What we want to do, in a nutshell, is load > > images > > > > dynamically, but all at once, and then just > > attach > > > > them from that moment on. > > > > > > > > The question is, can we attach an image > embedded > > in > > > > the container swf into the loader swf, > avoiding > > the > > > > external image load? HOW? The relationship > > between > > > > attachMovie and Image is very murky. > > > > > > > > An example, perhaps based on the code below, > > would > > > > be > > > > very nice, very helpful. You seem to know a > lot > > > > about > > > > Flex and Flash, can you help, please? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > > > > --- JesterXL <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <jesterxl%40jessewarden.com>> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > If you embed an image, you're not "loading" > > > > > anything; it's merely attaching > > > > > the img Class to your MovieClip's > DisplayList > > ( > > > > > attachMovie in 1.5). Thus > > > > > there is no point; just bind them all to img > > since > > > > > they are all using the > > > > > same resource. > > > > > > > > > > External images are a different story. > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > From: "greg556" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <greg556%40yahoo.com>> > > > > > To: <[email protected] > > <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>> > > > > > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 7:08 PM > > > > > Subject: [flexcoders] Embed images in one > > > > MovieClip, > > > > > use in another? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi everyone-- > > > > > > > > > > Is it possible to embed images (jpgs) in one > > > > > MovieClip, then load that > > > > > SWF into another MovieClip and use those > > images in > > > > > the loader? We are > > > > > trying to avoid reloading an image each time > > we > > > > need > > > > > it, but still > > > > > load them dynamically. We'd like to do this: > > > > (We're > > > > > using Flex, but > > > > > this is really an AS question I think, about > > > > > accessing resources from > > > > > one SWF in another SWF). This example is in > > Flex, > > > > > but the real work, I > > > > > expect, is in AS. If you can tell me how to > do > > it > > > > in > > > > > AS, I can get it > > > > > working in flex.) > > > > > > > > > > Container.swf: > > > > > <mx:Application> > > > > > <mx:Script> > > > > > [Embed(source="images/myimage.jpg")] > > > > > public var img: String; > > > > > </mx:Script> > > > > > </mx:Application> > > > > > > > > > > Then, load that SWF and use its embedded > > image: > > > > > > > > > > Loader.swf: > > > > > <mx:Application> > > > > > <mx:Loader id="container" > > source="Container.swf" > > > > /> > > > > > <mx:HBox> > > > > > <mx:Image id="the_image" > > > > > source="container.content.img" /> > > > > > </mx:HBox> > > > > > </mx:Application> > > > > > > > > > > It looks like this should work, and the > > "resource" > > > > > string is properly > > > > > being passed to the_image (something like > > > > > __Resource.43234564.myimage_jpg) but it > cannot > > > > > actually load; we get a > > > > > broken image instead. > > > > > > > > > > I'm guessing I somehow need to register the > > object > > > > > library of the > > > > > Container.swf with my Loader.swf? How? > > > > > > > > > > Or, is this whole enterprise impossible? > > > > > > > > > > Thank you! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Flexcoders Mailing List > > > > > FAQ: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > > > > > Search Archives: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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