[swfmill] (flash8) add linkage to jpg/png directly - *STILL* possible ? + Fonts (Text version of previous post)

[Luke Schreur]

>> While in the MMFlash IDE, when i place a picture in the library
>> and assign it a "linkage" name, it is then accessible directly
>> with this name.

Well, swfmill isn't the Flash IDE. Also, this feature only exists in the
Flash IDE since version 8.

>> That's kind of dirty

There is nothing dirty about it. It is just the way it works :)


-----Original Message-----
From: swfmill-bounces at osflash.org [mailto:swfmill-bounces at osflash.org]
On Behalf Of MARTIN Pierre
Sent: Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:44
To: swfmill at osflash.org
Subject: Re: [swfmill] (flash8) add linkage to jpg/png directly -
*STILL* possible ? + Fonts (Text version of previous post)

Well, it's almost this  :-)

Actually, my library looks like this (don't mind the "bitmap-id" stuff, 
it's only some late testing):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<movie version="9" width="640" height="480" framerate="31">
    <background color="#646464"/>
        <library>
            <frame>
                <clip id="imgPanelB"    bitmap-id="imgPanelB"        
import="library/Artwork/Bottom.png"/>
                <clip id="imgPanelT"    bitmap-id="imgPanelT"        
import="library/Artwork/Top.png"/>
                <clip id="imgPanelL"    bitmap-id="imgPanelL"        
import="library/Artwork/Left.png"/>
                <clip id="imgPanelR"    bitmap-id="imgPanelR"        
import="library/Artwork/Right.png"/>
                <clip id="imgPanelBL"    bitmap-id="imgPanelBL"        
import="library/Artwork/BottomLeft.png"/>
                <clip id="imgPanelBR"    bitmap-id="imgPanelBR"        
import="library/Artwork/BottomRight.png"/>
                <clip id="imgPanelTL"    bitmap-id="imgPanelTL"        
import="library/Artwork/TopLeft.png"/>
                <clip id="imgPanelTR"    bitmap-id="imgPanelTR"        
import="library/Artwork/TopRight.png"/>
                <clip id="imgPanelTR"    bitmap-id="imgPanelTR"        
import="library/Artwork/TopRight.png"/>
                <clip id="imgPanelRH"    bitmap-id="imgPanelRH"        
import="library/Artwork/ResizeHandle.png"/>
                <font id="Fnt_Generic_10"                            
import="library/Artwork/Arial.ttf"/>
            </frame>
        </library>
</movie>

While in the MMFlash IDE, when i place a picture in the library and 
assign it a "linkage" name, it is then accessible directly with this 
name. Eg: Bitmap.loadBitmap("linkage_name"). The problem with my SWFMill

is that the bitmap is put *in* a movieclip, which name is the specified 
linkage ID. So my flash workaround is what you told, loading the MC 
first, then getting the bitmap.
That's kind of dirty, and since i want my sources to be compilable 
either from MMFlash and mtasc + swfmill, i had to code this:
    private function GetBitmap(szID:String)    :BitmapData {
        if (CClientGameEngine.REALMMCFLASH) {
            return BitmapData.loadBitmap(szID);
        } else {
            var    mcLoader    :MovieClip    = _root["mcLoader"];
            mcLoader    = _root.attachMovie(szID, "mcLoader", 
_root.getNextHighestDepth());
            var    bitLoad        :BitmapData    = new 
BitmapData(mcLoader._width, mcLoader._height, true, 0x0);
            bitLoad.draw(mcLoader);
            mcLoader.removeMovieClip();
            return bitLoad;
        }
    }

What i want to achieve is to really have the bitmap "named" with the 
linkage string, exactly like it would be in MMCFlash...

Well, anyway thanks for your answer. Hope you will have another idea :-)

Pierre

Luke Schreur wrote:
> I hope this is what you are trying to do. In the first frame you
create
> your library (similar to Flash's export in first frame). Then you
import
> a bitmap into your library. Then you place the bitmap inside a library
> movieclip. Now you can attach the movieclip to the stage or whatever.
I
> did this from the top of my head so there could be typos:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
> <movie width="320" height="240" framerate="12">
> 	<background color="#ffffff"/>
>
> 	<frame>
> 		<library>
> 				<clip id="foo"
> import="library/foo.jpg"/>
> 				<clip id="FooClip">
> 					<place id="foo"
> name="myFooInstance" x="10" y="10" depth="1" />
> 				</clip>
> 		</library>
> 	</frame>
> </movie>
>
> In AS2.0
>
> attachMovie("FooClip", "myFooClip", 0);
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: swfmill-bounces at osflash.org [mailto:swfmill-bounces at osflash.org]
> On Behalf Of MARTIN Pierre
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 July 2006 10:48
> To: swfmill at osflash.org
> Subject: [swfmill] (flash8) add linkage to jpg/png directly - *STILL*
> possible ? + Fonts (Text version of previous post)
>
> Sorry, last post seemt to be a bit tricky to read because of my HTML 
> formating... Here is a text version so everybody will be able to read
it
>
> in the archive.
>
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------
>
> Hello list people,
>
> I'm trying to understand the how to use SWFMill to use bitmaps in my 
> movieclips, accessed from AS2 only.
> I have tried a lot of workarounds, and have currently one which works 
> with the SWFMill "bug" (Which attach the bitmap within a container).
>
> Recently, i have found this post:
>
http://www.osflash.org/pipermail/swfmill_osflash.org/2005-October/000264
> .html
> and so have tried to make the attached 0.2.11.1 version to work the
way 
> i want.
> Anyway, and after a ton of tests, i can't manage it to attach my
bitmap 
> the proper way.
>
> So my question is, is it a solved issue? Have i to keep my 
> movieclip-container-size-detection-loadbitmap-tricky workaround?
>
> Another question, very simple. Is it possible to avoid the "smooth" 
> effect when using SWFMill imported fonts? For instance, if i want to
get
>
> an embeded version of the "Arial" (Some of windows default fonts) size

> 10 in my SWF, what is the trick to avoid antialiasing?
>
> Last question, because the online "official" version is still the 
> 0.2.11, and because i only have found the 0.2.11.1 version with a luck

> on the mailing list, i really appreciate if someone can tell me where
to
>
> get latest versions. If this developpement is dead, is Dan now
involved 
> in another, more recent, similar project i can use? I know a bit about

> HAXE, but it seems very unstable and "fragile", and i really wish to 
> keep my FLAME set up as it is now...
>
> Anyway, thanks a lot for any kind of answer.
> Friend regards,
> Pierre.
> P.S.: Please excuse my poor english. BTW i'm french and the french
lack 
> of documentation really hurts ;-)
>
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