Archive for October, 2006

Smooth Image Resizing

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Much has been written about smoothing dynamically loaded bitmaps in Flash 8. But, just in case you missed it, here’s the short version: Flash 8 allows you to smooth dynamically loaded images such as JPG’s at runtime by taking a snapshot of the image using BitmapData and redrawing it on to a MovieClip with smoothing applied..

It’s one of those things you may never have realized you were missing until now.

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Introduction

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Hi, my name is David Knape, and I’m starting yet another blog in order to share my thoughts on Flash development and related topics. I am a programmer, not an animator or timeline tweener, so you will see more code here than anything else.
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