Question

I am editing a custom calendar application in flash. The purpose of this app is to let you select your own images, and create a calendar out of it. You can basically, drag and drop images of your choice and they apply frame/borders, or drag and drop embellishments.
Here is the piece of code that draws a border/frame on the embellishment/image of your choice.

tempListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip)
{
    var mcName = target_mc._name.substring(0, target_mc._name.indexOf("@", 0));
    if(mcName == "frame_Image")
    {
        target_mc.onPress = function()
        {
            if(_root.selectedImage != null)
            {
                var index = this._name.substring(this._name.indexOf("@",0)+1, this._name.length);
                var objPath = nodesFrames.childNodes[index-1].attributes.image;

                if(_root.selectedImage._name.split("@")[0] == "image")
                {
                    var mask = _root.selectedImage[_root.selectedImage._parent._name + "_" + _root.selectedImage._name + "_maskMc"];

                    frameImageWidth = mask._width;
                    frameImageHeight = mask._height;
                    frameImageXScale = -1;
                    frameImageYScale = -1;
                }
                else
                {
                    frameImageXScale = _root.selectedImage._xscale;
                    frameImageYScale = _root.selectedImage._yscale;

                    _root.selectedImage._xscale = 100;
                    _root.selectedImage._yscale = 100;                              

                    frameImageWidth = _root.selectedImage._width;
                    frameImageHeight = _root.selectedImage._height;             
                }

                if(_root.selectedImage["frame"])
                {}
                else
                {
                    _root.selectedImage.createEmptyMovieClip("frame",  _root.selectedImage.getNextHighestDepth());
                }
                var image_mcl1:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
                image_mcl1.addListener(_root.mclFrameListener);
                image_mcl1.loadClip("Images/" + objPath,  _root.selectedImage["frame"]);
            }
        }
    }

I need to somehow apply the chosen frame image, to the entire background – not just to the embellishment or image. How do I go about this?

Thanks in advance for your inputs. Please let me know if the question doesn’t make sense, I will attach some images that can help you with the context.

Answer 1

You could create a new Bitmap with the masked clip and then created a tiled background. This is the as2 version:

this.beginBitmapFill(tile);

And here it explains how to do it:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/tiledbackground_flash8.htm

The only difference is instead of loading a bitmap you can create it from the masked clip.

I hope it’s clear enough, other ways let me know.