Reduce image size

Question

Hello,
I have a question about reducing the size of an image.
What i want is to load an image.. resize it and then save it
into a blob(sqlite air db)
In php you say imagecopyresampled and you can save a smaller
image.
How to do this in flex?
What i have is an function witch resizes the given image, but
i doubt the image is really reduced in size..(from 900 to 100k)
code:
package
import flash.display.Bitmap;
public class imageresize extends Bitmap
//globals
private var bmp:Bitmap;
private var true_width:Number;
private var true_height:Number;
private var maxx:Number;
private var maxy:Number;
private var resize:Boolean;
public function
resizeImage(b:Bitmap,h:Number,w:Number):Bitmap
this.bmp=b;
this.maxx=w;
this.maxy=h;
this.true_width = bmp.width;
this.true_height = bmp.height;
//this.true_width2 = imagesx($image);
//this.true_height2 = imagesy($image);
this.resize=false;
if (true_width>maxx) resize=true;
if (true_height>maxy) resize=true;
if (resize==true)
var width:Number=maxx;
var height:Number = (width / true_width) * true_height;
true_width=width;
true_height=height;
if (true_height>maxy)
height=maxy;
width = (height/true_height)*true_width;
else
width=true_width;
height=true_height;
else
width=true_width;
height=true_height;
width=Math.ceil(width);
height=Math.ceil(height);
// this is used extra in php to get a smaller image
//$dest_img = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
//imagecopyresampled(
// $dest_img, $image,
// 0, 0, 0, 0,
// $width, $height, $true_width2, $true_height2); // resize
the image
//return $dest_img;
bmp.height=height;
bmp.width=width;
return bmp;
please some help here,sorry for the way i put the code here..
i couldn't find the attach code button..
or did i have to use [attach code]? maybe handy to change the
string attach code into a link..
Greets, jacob

Answer 1

perhaps another nice thing is to encode it to base64 so it
can be saved into the sqlite database.
I found my one solution by encoding it to a base64 string and
store it into the db.
Here a link to the topic with the solution.
link
to the topic with my solution
Greets, jacob