RE: [flexcoders] movie clip/sprite instances and items in repeaters
Thanks Jesse (miss seeing you around Flashcoders and Flashnewbies BTW) So it sound like perhaps wrapping this up into a component which loads the image and then applys the Reflection effect is the way to go huh? I think I have that close to working... Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:20 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] movie clip/sprite instances and items in repeaters Answering your last question first. MovieClips and Sprites are not allowed willy nilly in Flex. The Flex framework allows UIComponents only. If you control the UIComponent, you are welcome to put what you want in it. Otherwise, you'll get an exception if you try to put a Sprite or MovieClip inside a Canvas for example. So, you don't access MovieClip's and sprites that are in MXML. AS3 allows only certain access to certain things; this isn't the benevolent AS2 / AS1 of yore that had no rules. The Image class extends SWFLoader, and SWFLoader does some nice abstraction of stuff that's loaded in it. So, image.content could be: - a loader - an internal class - a loaded asset (SWF, JPG, etc.) If it's a Loader, you'd go: image.content.content, and cast that to what it is; in your case, I think Bitmap. The only time Image.content isn't a loader is if you pass it a class name (usually). On Jan 17, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: Been trying to post this all day, but no luck. How do I access the sprite/movieClip instance (not sure which it is, since this is in the image class) of an image loaded into image tag and then pass that to an actionscript method? Basically, I have a repeater that loads dynamic images (based on XML data) into an mx:Image tag. That works fine. I also have a Reflection class (currently porting it from AS 2.0 to 3.0) which applys a reflection effect to a movie clip's bitmap data, which also works fine in plain old Flash. However in Flex, I know how to import the class, but not how to tie the rendering of the different dynamic images in my MXML with the Reflection class. I read the help docs on mx.controls.image, and it seems like the image might be loaded into a sprite instance, but how to I send that sprite instance to my actionscript method right after the image loads? Any ideas? Also, in general, how to do you access sprites or movie clips on the stage created with MXML from Actionscript? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
[flexcoders] movie clip/sprite instances and items in repeaters
Been trying to post this all day, but no luck. How do I access the sprite/movieClip instance (not sure which it is, since this is in the image class) of an image loaded into image tag and then pass that to an actionscript method? Basically, I have a repeater that loads dynamic images (based on XML data) into an mx:Image tag. That works fine. I also have a Reflection class (currently porting it from AS 2.0 to 3.0) which applys a reflection effect to a movie clip's bitmap data, which also works fine in plain old Flash. However in Flex, I know how to import the class, but not how to tie the rendering of the different dynamic images in my MXML with the Reflection class. I read the help docs on mx.controls.image, and it seems like the image might be loaded into a sprite instance, but how to I send that sprite instance to my actionscript method right after the image loads? Any ideas? Also, in general, how to do you access sprites or movie clips on the stage created with MXML from Actionscript? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
Re: [flexcoders] movie clip/sprite instances and items in repeaters
Answering your last question first. MovieClips and Sprites are not allowed willy nilly in Flex. The Flex framework allows UIComponents only. If you control the UIComponent, you are welcome to put what you want in it. Otherwise, you'll get an exception if you try to put a Sprite or MovieClip inside a Canvas for example. So, you don't access MovieClip's and sprites that are in MXML. AS3 allows only certain access to certain things; this isn't the benevolent AS2 / AS1 of yore that had no rules. The Image class extends SWFLoader, and SWFLoader does some nice abstraction of stuff that's loaded in it. So, image.content could be: - a loader - an internal class - a loaded asset (SWF, JPG, etc.) If it's a Loader, you'd go: image.content.content, and cast that to what it is; in your case, I think Bitmap. The only time Image.content isn't a loader is if you pass it a class name (usually). On Jan 17, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: Been trying to post this all day, but no luck. How do I access the sprite/movieClip instance (not sure which it is, since this is in the image class) of an image loaded into image tag and then pass that to an actionscript method? Basically, I have a repeater that loads dynamic images (based on XML data) into an mx:Image tag. That works fine. I also have a Reflection class (currently porting it from AS 2.0 to 3.0) which applys a reflection effect to a movie clip's bitmap data, which also works fine in plain old Flash. However in Flex, I know how to import the class, but not how to tie the rendering of the different dynamic images in my MXML with the Reflection class. I read the help docs on mx.controls.image, and it seems like the image might be loaded into a sprite instance, but how to I send that sprite instance to my actionscript method right after the image loads? Any ideas? Also, in general, how to do you access sprites or movie clips on the stage created with MXML from Actionscript? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
