ActionScript: Get dimensions of loaded jpeg?

hmm... I did that once... I can't for the life of me remember how I did it though . I'll get back to you once I get home, I have the code there.

Glad that basic code lives on.

You know, the problem might be that it looks for the width before the jpg gets through loading. You might need to put in some sort of onLoad action to make it work properly.

Otherwise you might need to build an external xml file where you could store file names and jpeg dimensions.

Rob

Sorry, I couldn't find the code, but robx2 is right. You get the wrong dimensions because the code execution is usually much faster than loading a picture. You need something like this to read the proper values:

I think you substitute this with the name of the movieclip, I havent used flash in a while...

I'm not sure what's the most effective way of doing this though. There's a tutorial on loading jpg's here.

I know this is an old thread, but I am sick of reading posts that i personally want answers for and there not being one after all of that reading! Below is how you should load images and gain access to their height/width and so on... The answer is onLoadInit(); onLoadComplete will not work because all of the variables and things are not initialized until the onLoadInit(); Hope this saves someone some time!

Use the MovieClipLoader object (with a Listener):

var my_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var mclListener:Object = new Object();

mclListener.onLoadProgress = function(target_mc:MovieClip,numBytesLoaded:Number,numBytesTotal:Number):Void {
var pctLoaded:Number =Math.ceil(100*(numBytesLoaded/numBytesTotal));
// This will get you the percent amount loaded for use in a preloader, etc...
};
mclListener.onLoadInit = function(mc:MovieClip):Void {
trace("LoadInit Rules! "+mc._width); // This is the method that will return the proper values for height/width

}

my_mcl.addListener(mclListener);
my_mcl.loadClip(imageVariable, MovieClipToLoadImageInto);