Using large loaded jpg to heighten clarity/crispness?

Question

Hi There,
I have a gallery on my flash site.  The way I'm working this is as follows:
layer 1 that runs through all frames:  var loader1:Loader = new Loader();
when a button is clicked, the playhead goes to a certain frame and does this:
loader1.unloadAndStop();
holder2.addChild(loader1);
loader1.x = 0;
loader1.y = 0;
loader1.alpha = 0;
loader1.load(new URLRequest("damoimages/med.jpg"));
As a side note, I am also using Greensock's liquid stage to scale this holder up to a certain set size.
Now I've noticed that when I blow up the screen, my loaded jpg loses some of its crispness, which is to be expected.  I've also noticed this is remedied if I import a larger image than I need I get a nice crisp image.  For example, I have been loading in an image that is 960 x 640 into my 'holder' which is 960 x 640.  But when I load a larger image (1200 x 800 or larger) say, the image is nice and crisp.  Only problem is it fills up the whole screen until I begin to resize my browser, then it snaps into place and is scaled correctly by staying crisp.  Any way to tell this loaded image to not come in at it's big size, but to scale down appropriately w/o me scaling down my browser window?
Phew!
Thanks, as always.
R

Answer 1

You need to wait until the image has loaded before you can try to resize it in any way, though you could scale the holder ahead of time if you know the dimensions you will be working with and are consistent with them.