resizing a swf movie loaded with loadMovie 1

[peterworth]

hi,

the following gives some funny behaviour:

loadMovie("li.swf","rect_mc");
rect_mc._width = 50;
rect_mc._height = 50;

button_mc.onRelease = function() {
rect_mc._width = 50;
rect_mc._height = 50;
}

the first alteration to _width and _height make the movie a particular size, then when the button is pressed, the movie is made even smaller, but it should be the same (always 50pixels x 50pixels)

any idea why it happens? i have a bigger project where this behaviour is causing some issues.

thanks.

 

[kennethkawamoto]

loadMovie is not synchronous, so you are basically changing the size of the MovieClip BEFORE it finishes loading the external SWF. If you do that then the external SWF inherits the SCALE of your MovieClip, not the size of your MovieClip. Therefore your MovieClip will not end up with 50px x 50px, but it will end up with (Size of external SWF)x(50px x 50px)/(Original MovieClip size).

You should use MovieClipLoader class.

var lo = new Object();
var mcl = new MovieClipLoader();
mcl.addListener(lo);
lo.onLoadInit = function() {
	rect_mc._width = 50;
	rect_mc._height = 50;
};
mcl.loadClip("li.swf", rect_mc);

button_mc.onRelease = function() {
	rect_mc._width = 50;
	rect_mc._height = 50;
};

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[peterworth]

perfect, thanks!