Hey Mike,
yup tried both those methods but just like you pointed out,
run into issues with both of them.
cheers
firdosh
On 9/27/07, Mike Krotscheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I can theorize 2 workarounds.
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> 1. Break the image into a fill and put the various pieces (corners and
> whatnot) on different layers so they don't think they're part of the same
> fill.
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> 2. Trace the image down to pixels.
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> The first will probably fail on the stretched pieces because it's using
> the image as a fill, and expanding the filled area will only expose more of
> the image rather than stretching it.
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> The second is not recommended if you have a large and/or complex image.
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> *Michael Krotscheck*
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> Senior Developer
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:flexcompone
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Firdosh Tangri
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 27, 2007 6:11 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [flexcomponents] Embed components from swf with scale9 into
> flex
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>
>
> yup João your right, I was wondering if anyone had figured out a
> workaround it
> I can see many people have reported it as a bug, hopefully adobe will find
> a
> good solution to it.
>
> cheers
> firdosh
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>
> On 9/27/07, *João Saleiro* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I think this only applies to symbols made with vector shapes. For bitmaps,
> this doesn't work as supposed.
> 9-slice works for embed bitmaps using metadata on Flex 2, but it doesn't
> work for bitmaps on Flash CS3.
> I don't know if this is a bug, or if there's a valid reason for it, but
> it's a feature i definitely miss...
>
> João Saleiro
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> Mike Krotscheck wrote:
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> If the embedded asset is set up with 9-slice scaling (in Flash), Flex will
> automatically pick up on it without any fancy metatags.
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> *Michael Krotscheck*
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> Senior Developer
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:flexcompone <flexcompone>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Firdosh Tangri
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 27, 2007 5:26 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [flexcomponents] Embed components from swf with scale9 into
> flex
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>
>
> Hey guys,
> so in Flex if I do a
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> upSkin: Embed("MyPng",
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> scaleGridTop=5,scaleGridBottom=20,scaleGridLeft=23,scaleGridRight=72);
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> and specify how to scale the image.
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> Now if I have the same image embeded in a swf file with some linkage id
> myImage
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> upSkin: Embed(source ="MyPngSWF.swf", symbol="myImage");
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> is it possible to tell flex somehow how to scale this asset ??..
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>
> thanks
> cheers
> firdosh
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