LoaderMax Questions - SWF alignment and SWF cropping

[Chris7777]

Hi Jack,

 

I've just started retro-fitting LoaderMax into an existing project which loads several SWF's into a master SWF.

 

I've found a few things though, which I didn't pick up when I was doing the beta-testing.

 

Question 1 - SWF Alignment

Let's say a child SWF's stage width and height is 900 x 490 and I have a box (say 100px x 100px, topleft aligned) located at 200, 200. I.e there is a gap of a 200 from the left of the box to the stage left edge, and a 200px gap from the top of the box to the stage top edge.

 

In the master SWF I (let's assume I am only loading in 1 child at the moment) I run this:

 

var loader:SWFLoader = new SWFLoader("child.swf", {container:this, width:900, height:490, scaleMode:"none", centerRegistration:false});

 

The result is the box is 'pushed' all the way to 0, 0. I understand that a published SWF looses its stage to the parent, because only 1 stage can exist, but is there a way to stop this? I understand I could technically place a massive white background on the stage and republish all the children, but I was hoping there might have been a away around this.

 

 

Question 2 - SWF Cropping

This is actually more a request (I know you were asking for requests before release but I didn't think of this at the time My bad). Is it possible to have some sort of crop, similar to your layout tool. For example, I set the SWFLoader to again height:900, width:490, and maybe (??) set crop:true and it will crop any of the loaded child SWF outside of these dimensions?

 

Thanks

 

 

[Resolved]

 

Update: I combined your AutoFitArea with the SWFLoader as such.

// Container for 
var container:Sprite = new Sprite();
addChild(container);

// 900 x 490 is my desired widths and heights.
var area:AutoFitArea = new AutoFitArea(_mc, 0, 0, 900, 490, 0xFFFFFF);
area.preview = true;

var loader:SWFLoader = new SWFLoader("child.swf", {container:container, centerRegistration:true, onComplete:onComplete});

function onComplete(e:LoaderEvent):void {
   area.attach(e.target.content, ScaleMode.NONE, AlignMode.CENTER, AlignMode.CENTER, true);
}

 

Thanks Jack.

 

I'm not sure where to note this but in the SWFLoader docs under the property 'status' summary that 'LoaderStatus.COMPLETE' but its actually LoaderStatus.COMPLETED.

[GreenSock]

Wishes granted. Snag the latest version and you'll notice there's a new "crop" special property for SWFLoader, ImageLoader, and VideoLoader. Just set it to true. And the alignment now factors in the swf's native size instead of its getBounds().

 

Happy?

[Chris7777]

Very happy! Thanks mate.