Hi guys, any of you knows a way to stretch a picture in a component "Image"
without the proper scaling?, the thing is i did it before astro with certain
code in php, so the user for example uploaded a picture and it got to the right
size, but sometimes they had to wait to upload to the server to see the
standard size preview.

now with astro, nice thing you can load the image at runtime and just preview
it "how is going to be" before uploading the image to the server....

this is the closest thing have gotten, but still the image cant get to a
certain size, that will be Heigth : "300", width : "400", when loaded directly
with image component, it just kept scaling, so certain areas of the image
component ketp empty..... it doesnt matter if it distorts....

i am porting my project from php to flex...
have learned many things about flex, great language, but cant get this working
properly.

probably is a simple thing for some of you guys, help!.

here is the code is currently in....


private function image_completeHandler(event:Event):void
{

bmd = Bitmap(event.currentTarget.content).bitmapData;

// Retrieve a temporary reference to the original BitmapData object
originalBitmapData = bmd;
// Set the amount by which to scale the bitmap
var scaleFactor:Number = .5;
// Calculate the new dimensions of the scaled bitmap
var newWidth:int = originalBitmapData.width * scaleFactor;
var newHeight:int = originalBitmapData.height * scaleFactor;
// Create a new BitmapData object, sized to hold the scaled bitmap
scaledBitmapData = new BitmapData(400, 300, bmd.transparent);
// Create a transformation matrix that will scale the bitmap
scaleMatrix = new Matrix( );
scaleMatrix.scale(scaleFactor, scaleFactor);


//scaleMatrix.d = 1;

// Draw the scaled bitmap into the new BitmapData object
scaledBitmapData.draw(originalBitmapData, scaleMatrix);
// Replace the original BitmapData object with the
// new, scaled BitmapData object
bmd = scaledBitmapData;

bitmap = new Bitmap(bmd);

/// IMAGE COMPONENT...
imagenTransformada.source = bitmap;


}

You can use scaleContent="true" and maintainAspectRatio="false" so that you image stretches.

nice, slaingod... thx. fixed....
now 1 posibility is opened to send the filereference to the image to the
server... and the user to preview like going to be save on the server....

but another possibility, would not be nice, the user for example that big
image is compressed into flash(changing bitmapdata height, width) then be sent
for example to php and not the "fileference" from the original file which cout
be many mbs??

anyone how to get handled width,height in bitmapdata, or...
is possible to take the picture on the "Image" component and get it ready for
sending it to server?

thx, if this is resolved, theses steps could be great for a tutorial, thx
again slaingod.