How to scale and clip a BitmapImage in Flex 4.5

Question

Here's my problem, I need to scale and clip images into square sized tiles to put into a tile list. Here's how I want it to work:
1. I want all my tiles to be, say, 300px x 300px.
2. For each image, I want to scale the shorter side (either width or height) to fit in the tile using the "letterbox" scaleMode (so that it maintains aspect ratio).
3. Then I want to position the image in the center and clip away anything left over from either both sides or the top and bottom.
Here's an example to help clarify:
- I have an image with width=600px and height=1200px. First I want to scale the image to width=300px and height=600px (notice that aspect ratio is maintained), then center the image vertically and clip the image to 300 x 300.
Is this possible? This is actually a pretty standard way of displaying square thumbnails in many photo-based web sites, but I can't find a way to make it work in flex.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

You can define any number of risk levels (low, medium, high,
etc) using a
case statement
case (true) of
(value(member("total")) < 12): member("risk level").text
= "Low"
(value(member("total")) < 27) : member("risk level").text
= "Medium"
otherwise:member("risk level").text = "High"
end case
"Mike Crisp" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:e4kn47$b2n$[email protected]..
> Dave
>
> Now that I've started tinkering. Any suggestions as to
how I might work
the
> following:
>
> If value of member "total".text is between 8 and12
Member"Risk
Level".text =
> "Low Risk"
>
> If value of member "total".text is higher than 27
Member"Risk Level".text
=
> "Unaccepable"
>
> And so on.....
>
> Mike
>