Center external jpg in movie?

Is it possible to externally load jpgs with different
dimensions which would center with the movie clips registration
point instead of aligning with the upper left default point? Here
is the code I am using currently for each button calling the jpg to
be loaded into the movie clip.
Also, is there a way to have flash put a border stroke around
each jpg that is loaded?

Well the MovieClipLoader is the way to go -- as long as you
are publishing for Flash 7 or higher.
The jpeg is always going to have the upper left corner at
0,0. There is nothing that can be done about that. What CAN BE DONE
is that the 0,0 can be moved so it looks like the jpeg is centered.
So if all you want to to is make it looks like the center of
the graphic is where the 0,0 point was you would move left by half
the width and move up by half the height.
I'm not sure if the code provided above will work (probably
should) but it isn't quite in the form specified in the help files.
var container:MovieClip =
createEmptyMovieClip("container",100);
container._x=200;
container._y=100
var MCL:MovieClipLoader=new MovieClipLoader();
var listener:Object=new Object():
listener.onLoadInit=function(target:MovieClip){
target._x-=(target._width/2);
target._y-=(target._height/2);
MCL.addListener(listener);
MCL.loadClip("yourfile.jpg",container);
That should make it look like the external graphic is
centered on (200,100).

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well I'm afraid there are a few things that are not quite
right with the method here - however, the real problem is most
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Flash MX Preloader for external JPGs

Hey all! Any help would be greatly appreciated. In all
honesty, I have searched and studied and worked to get this myself,
which I do alot with code, etc. BUT I am going to admit I'm a "make
it pretty on the outside" kind of guy, and coding makes my eyeballs
fall out and well, honestly, I just don't get it. My brain can not
wrap itself around this. Sigh! So I could use your help a little.
This is what I'm wanting to do. I have a website,
www.luxeillustrato.com, and if you go to the portfolio area, and
click on any of the sections (take fine art for example); it will
showcase my works by loading external jpg files each time you click
the forward arrow button.
You can see I have preloaders on the site, that work fine. My
main page has a movie target with the instance name of photoM. You
click "artist", and it loads a new swf file into the photoM target.
IF you click on "portfolio", "fine art", it loads the fine art swf
file into photoM, using a preloader. THEN, if you click on the
forward arrow button, a new jpg image of my work is loaded into the
fine art movie target with the instance name of just
photo. As you can see, you have to wait until the jpg image
loads (and you start to wonder if it's doing anything.)
The problem is, it is not preloading the external jpgs, it's
just preloading the fine art swf. My preload code is currently:
stop();
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totalBytes = _parent.getBytesTotal();
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put a stop() on the first frame of your external swf in an otherwise empty first frame. when preloading is complete apply a play() to your loader's content cast as a movieclip:
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on (release) {
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How can I get this to load whenever the page loads, and still
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Thanks guys I had tried some script on the same frame, but
everything didn't load the same, maybe it was the way I did it. So
after a while of playing around I think I got it.
I put a blank movie clip on the stage, gave it an instamce
name, then added a loader into the movie, which was fairly easy all
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Load a external jpg in BitmapData

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I search a way to load a external jpg from my server in my
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it with the BitmapData-Class.
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For me it seems to be a little bit stupid to load the image
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like this:
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I am a noob with Flash 8 and my english is very bad.
So sorry and thanks for you help
jm

//import BitmapData
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External JPG preloader

Hey all! I could use any help you can give me pertaining to
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but it's calling external JPG files, so it is not preloading those.
I'm a bit of a simpleton when it comes to actionscripting, so any
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but just honestly can't understand what I'm trying to do here.
Thanks!

The overall preloader I'm using for loading the portfolio swf
is:
stop();
onEnterFrame = function () {
totalBytes = _parent.getBytesTotal();
loadedBytes = _parent.getBytesLoaded();
percent = Math.ceil((loadedBytes/totalBytes)*100);
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But again, this doesn't load the external JPGS. The code I
have that is loading the JPGS (one at a time) is:
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this.pArray = ["Port_SP_Illustration.jpg",
"ILL_TPMC_Elf.jpg", "Ill_wine.swf", "Ill_red.jpg",
"IL_art_cake.jpg", "Ill_satisfaction.swf", "Ill_mrproperty.jpg",
"Ill_child.swf", "IL_art_asbig_fade.swf", "IL_art_asbig_02.jpg",
"IL_art_asbig_03.jpg", "IL_art_asbig_04.jpg", "Ill_chorus.jpg",
"Ill_baby.swf", "Ill_father.swf"];
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with the forward button coded as:
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MY issue is, I know coders hate designers; because I know I
could use the movie clip loader class; but you know, honestly, I
start reading about class and listeners and my brain pops! I just
don't get it. I'm good at tweaking code, but creating it is another
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Vista problem with loading external JPGs?

I'm really pulling my hair out on this one. I did a quick
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Is there any known issue with this? They can see everything
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of the loaded JPG photos. Can anyone else out there with Vista tell
me that they have the same problem? I'd like to track down what the
common denominator is.
I've asked two of the users to completely uninstall the Flash
player and reinstall it, but to no avail. Deactivating Norton
Antirvirus also didn't seem to do anything.
Here is the URL:
http://www.countryvillageps.com
-- the flash item is the top banner.

As Ned said the problem might be with the file structure on the server. Other problems may be with spelling. You computer may not be case sensitive to the names of the .swf files that you are loading, but your server might. So, on your computer when you are testing, second.swf is the same as Second.swf, or even second.SWF. But, on the server each of these variations is seen as a different file. Another problem is that when you are loading files from the same computer in testing, those files are close and so they load very quickly from your computer. When the files have to travel from the server, there will likely be a measurable period of time before the file is ready to be shown. This is particularly problematic with video that is embedded into an .swf. The whole file will need to be downloaded and uncompressed before it is available to play. If you stream the video as an external file, you can shorten the wait considerably.

Creating an Array of external JPGs, please help.

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Please help me get this working so my image gallery can work, thanks!

So the problem is that you want them in the array in the same sequence am I right on this?
See the updated code:
var imageArray:Array = new Array();
var imageLoader:Array = new Array();
function loadImage():void {
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        var imageLoader[i] = new Loader();
        imageArray[i] = new MovieClip();
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/* function imageLoaded(e:Event):void {
     var image:Bitmap = (Bitmap)(e.target.content);
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In this case you can not track whether an image is loaded or not. It is the most simplest way of doing this. If your images are not coming from dynamic sources and are fixed in number and position you can use this method also.

Need to load external jpgs at once

I am using loadMovie to load all my external jpgs at once. On
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Look at MovieClipLoader instead - images take time to load.
You have to wait
until your files have loaded before trying to use them - MCL
is best for
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Dave -
Head Developer
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What is the easiest way to preload external jpgs? The client
wants to update these frequently so they should be external, but I
want them to show up instantly like the rest of the site once the
preloading is done.
Any advice? I had thought about loading them into the
preloader (at 0% alpha), so that they'd be loaded into the cache
during preload, so that when the home page comes up, they'd be all
ready to go? But if it's a different instance of the movieclip,
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It is possible to pre-cache files off the same server. If you
load into different instances then it should get it from the cache,
so yes that would speed things up. But... results are dependent on
an unknown factor: the user's cache settings. If its set to never
cache you could end up downloading 'to the cache' and just wasting
bandwidth.
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http://www.actionscript.com/Article/tabid/54/ArticleID/Preloading-Files-into-the-Browser-s -Cache/Default.aspx
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into movieclips (perhaps with ._visible=false or 0% ._alpha etc).
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http://www.quip.net/blog/2007/flash/actionscript-20/tracking-multiple-files-part1
http://www.quip.net/blog/2007/flash/actionscript-20/tracking-multiple-files-part2

External jpg not loading when slideshow is live.

When testing locally the slideshow works fine. When i upload
the swf the external jpg do not show up. Anything graphic embedded
in the swf shows up. The external jpg don't :/
The jpgs are uploaded and all.
i use different syntax that work ok when testing locally but
no cigar when uploaded.
I can send the simple fla and jpg upon request.
Tks for your help

are you using preloader code or the onLoadInit() method of
the moviecliploader class to ensure your images are loaded before
starting the countdown to the next image load?

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external JPG file, would users need to download thme few times?
Or only need to download once?
I am having trouble loading long 700*8000 jpg files due to
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thank you, kglad..
I was thking of making 700 * 8000 image into 2800*2800 image
this square picture works as four (700*2800) images.
So that i can use 2 set of same jpg MC with differnt Masking
to make them
appears as continuously long images
eg. 1st Mc will be showing _x: 0-700
at the bottom of the first MC, 2nd MC will be showing _x:
700-1400
and so on so on..
so..when user is scrolling down..these MCs will makeing
sqaure image
as long portrait image..
I dont beleve myself it is a good solution..
Probably most suitable way would be what you just suggested
me..
Its just that it will be quite a time consuming job to make
jpgs into swfs...
Thank you again for your kindness..:)

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