The image content is always at the top-left of the Image. Based on scaleContent, the Image will scale the content or try to shrink itself down. There are no 9 choices, the image content fully fills the Image plus/or/minus extra space in order to maintain aspect ratio if requested. You use the parent container's layout to further position the Image. The VBox wrapper is trying to react to the new measured sizes by adjusting the size and position of the Image and while it should just work, sounds like something is off there. If the image content is a SWF you further complicate the problem because the SWF can resize itself, but the Image is only checking the size of the first frame. Are your SWFs "well-behaved" in that they appear centered in their stages and are aligned relative to the top-left and don't go into negative coordinates? It might require more code to deal with different stage alignments.
I recommend you go with Canvas because that'll give you the most control over positioning. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of droponrcll Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 12:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Placement of Image within Image Control --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Daniel Freiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On inspection it looks like I did what Alex is talking about. > I'm a little confused at the sliding image issue. In my experience the > loaded images are placed in the top left corner of the Image control unless > you explicitly do something else. Well, that is what it looked like at first, but what actually seems to happen is that the placement is quite arbitrary. The same image will always have the same placement, but two images of a similar size might have different placements. For instance if I have an image that is 300x100 and one that is 275x100, one of them will be at the top, the other at the bottom. I find myself mystified as to why the image control doesn't just have properties that let you specify where the content is. In Authorware, when you import an image there's a little grid that lets you choose one of 9 placements for the image relative to where you imported it. This is great when you're replacing imported content dynamically, because you can align it how you want. > You should be able to fit the Image control to the loaded image perfectly by > doing something like this: > > image.width = image.content.width; > image.height = image.content.height; > image.content.x = 0; > image.content.y = 0; Could that potentially make the content rescale again, resulting in an endless loop? Thanks!
