Question

I am loading JPEGs into a Flash presentation using load with a flash.display.Loader and it’s working great. The JPEGs are sizing to their native resolution (which is perfect). However, if I maximize the Flash presentation (in the Flash Player), the JPGs do NOT take advantage of the bigger screen.

For example, the presentation is 1024×768, and the image is 1280×400. Normally the image shows with a part offscreen in the Flash presentation. However, if I expand the Flash presentation to 1680×1200, the freshly loaded image still goes offscreen. Is there any way to load the jpg (or png, or whatever) to take advantage of the displayed resolution of the Flash presentation?

Edit: I realize this question is hard to read, so any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Fenomas’ answer is wonderful and really covers everything on scaling. However, the answer for me was to leave scaling alone (I had no choice anyway, no time to redo an entire presentation to not be pixel-oriented):

1. Do NOT use images that are the right resolution. Use really big images.
2. When you load them, in the Event.COMPLETE handler, scale them to a size you need (I’m just considering width, but you should consider a bounding box, of course):

So the code looks like this:

if (contentLoader.content.width > MAX_WIDTH) {
    var bitmap:Bitmap = Bitmap(contentLoader.content);
    bitmap.smoothing = true;  // the whole point of the exercise, really
    var oldW = bitmap.width;
    bitmap.width = MAX_WIDTH;
    bitmap.height = MAX_WIDTH / oldW * bitmap.height;
}