Creating a MovieClip and copying part of another clip, possible?

[Mark Redman]

Hi All,

I have a movieClip which loads a jpg dynamically, is it possible to create a
new movie clip and then copy a part of the jpg into it.

Thanks

Mark Redman

[Laiverd.COM]

No, unless you divide the jpg into smaller movieclips which can be
duplicated at runtime.

John

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[Mark Redman]

The jpg that gets loaded dynamically is already manipulated on the server,
either the full jpg or a part of a jpg and scaled etc already.
The flash front end is used for viewing this jpg(located on the server or in
a database), zooming, cropping etc is done on the back end and the user sees
the result of the zoom or selection.
All is working ok, although theres a slight delay as flash has to call the
..NET backend.
To increase the perception of speed I wanted to give the user a scaled
potion of the selection before the actual image is loaded, I would
definately need to use the selected portion of whats already within flash
without a call to the server otherwise it would be too slow (well twice as
slow).

Any idea's?

Mark

Thanks for the reply anyway!

[Laiverd.COM]

Like I said; one cannot 'cut' a movieclip/jpg in Flash. But as obviously
something of the image is already available in the movie at the time of
calling, maybe using a dynamic mask would be an option??

John

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[Mark Redman]

I will have a look at masking, thanks

Mark