Image Cloning code

[Tito]

There's been a number of questions on how to clone a imageLoader.getContent, so I thought I'd chuck in a slightly more complete solution so people don't have to waste time doing it.

package com.optricks.Tools 
{
import flash.display.Bitmap;
import flash.display.BitmapData;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.geom.Matrix;
import flash.display.DisplayObject;
import flash.geom.Rectangle;

/**
 * ...
 * @author Tito
 */

public class ImageTools 
{
	private static const _myType				:String			= "ImageTools";

	public static function cloneImage(image:DisplayObject)								:DisplayObject
	{
		var bmd			:BitmapData;
		var bitmap		:Bitmap;
		var spr			:Sprite;
		var bounds		:Rectangle = image.getBounds(image);

		bmd				= new BitmapData(int(bounds.width + 0.5), int(bounds.height + 0.5), true, 0x0);
		bmd.draw(image, new Matrix(1, 0, 0, 1, -bounds.x, -bounds.y));

		bitmap			= new Bitmap(bmd, "auto", true);
		bitmap.x		= bounds.x;
		bitmap.y		= bounds.y;

		spr				= new Sprite();
		spr.addChild(bitmap);
		return spr;
	}

}}

 

Hope this saves you 20 minutes

[Carl]

thanks for sharing. I'll take it for a spin.

[mspanish]

Hi Tito any way you can give an example of how to use this?

[mspanish]

Hi Tito I got this working great but the images look terrible - really fuzzy. Adding smoothing didn't help. Have you found any way to get the bitmap images a bit smoother?

[mspanish]

Ok I had some thumb resizing going on that I didn't realize - so now the bitmap thumbs aren't too bad.

 

But I'd still like to send over a COPY of the SWF to the subject, rather than the thumbnail SWF - otherwise the user can only put 1 of those items on the screen, 1 time - they can't ever access that item again without reloading all of the thumbs. So I need to find a way to create a duplicate of the ContentDisplay object on the fly, whenever the user clicks on it.