David-
I've heard 2 explanations for this limitation - not sure which it is.
Either:
- The limitation has something to do with the maximum stage size in a
Flash app
or
- The limitation is hard coded into the Flash player to keep people from
crashing the browser by loading something massive
Even if you COULD convert the PNG to a SWF, I'm not sure it would load.
The only option we could think of was to break the image up into tiles
(think Google maps) or else shrink the image to 2880 pixels. We chose to
shrink all of our images. So, we found a freeware image converter, ran it
through the folder structure that contained our images, and shrunk them
down.
The problem for us is that the images were technical drawings, and it really
affected quality. We don't want to show the entire image all at once - we
want to show a portion of it zoomed into a certain part of the drawing, then
allow the user to pan around the image and see what else is there.
However, because of this limitation (and my limited knowledge of Flex and
how to accomplish image tiling) we chose this path.
Hope this helps!
-Pat Buchanan
www.datanotion.com
On 5/31/07, Pat Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David-
I've heard 2 explanations for this limitation - not sure which it is.
Either:
the limitation has something to do with the maximum stage size
On 5/30/07, David Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So this must be the issue -
>
> The images we are trying to work with are around 2500 pixels wide by
> 3300
> pixels tall.
> In some cases even larger.
>
> The PNG files have internal transparency. So does this mean that we need
> some 3rd party software to first convert these files to SWF before we
> can
> work with them in flash? What software can do this?
>
> Thanks
> David Lewis
>
> 14a. Re: Best way to convert PNG to for usable in Flex
> Posted by: "Pat Buchanan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] <ajillis%40gmail.com>ajillis
> Wed May 30, 2007 10:23 am (PST)
> Good point. Remember that there is a limitation on how large those
> images
> can be. If I remember correctly, if your width or height hits 2880px the
> image won't load - you are limited to that amount.
>
> Search the flexcoders group for more info. You can't get around it from
> what I remember.
>
> Thanks!
> -Pat Buchanan
> www.datanotion.com
>
> On 5/28/07, cisnky <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <cisnky%40gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > How large are we talking in terms of the size of the PNG files?
> >
> >
> > On 5/28/07, David Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <david800%40comcast.net>> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > We are working on a project where we need to be able to work with
> large
> > > size
> > > PNG files using transparency. What is the best way to convert these
> > > transparent PNG files so that they can be properly displayed and
> worked
> > > with
> > > in Flash?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > David Lewis
> > >
> > >
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