Please add "resize image before uploading" and "do...

Question

SOME of us do NOT want to send bothersome, huge images over mobile devices just to share a pointless moment with a friend - or an enemy.
Wechat already has this AWESOME feature, so maybe Skype should have one too - as it is so cumbersome to go into another program to resize and save an image before sending it.
Please add a button to have a possibility of sending a low resoluton version of all images and also before downloading an image to check out if it is worth the money and bandwidth.
Sincerely, The Wrath of Diego

Answer 1

You can resize some bitmap, or movieClip, etc. to a new size by making a new bitmapData at the desired size and drawing the source into the new bitmapData. When doing the draw use a Matrix to accomplish the scaling. Something like so:
var newBitmapData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(320, 240);
var m:Matrix = new Matrix();
m.scale(newBitmapData.width / originalBitmapData.width, newBitmapData.height / originalBitmapData.height);
newBitmapData.draw(originalBitmapData, m);