Loader Resize not working in distributed SWF

By dmorison | Jul 5, 2009

Hi,

I have recently created a game in Flash CS3 with AS3 which displays a random picture (this is a pretty integral part of the game).

I have written a small procedure to resize the picture to an appropriate size for the flash application. This is as follows:

ActionScript Code:


function onComplete(ev:Event):void {
    var maxheight = 240;
    var maxwidth = 400;
    var l1:LoaderInfo = LoaderInfo(ev.target);
    trace(“width” + l1.content.width)
    trace(“height” + l1.content.height) 
    var lheight = l1.content.height;
    var lwidth = l1.content.width;
    while ((lheight > maxheight) || (lwidth > maxwidth)){
        if (lheight-maxheight >= lwidth-maxwidth) {
           
            lwidth = (maxheight / lheight) * lwidth;
            lheight = maxheight;
        }
        else {
           
            lheight = (maxwidth / lwidth) * lheight;
            lwidth = maxwidth;
        }
    }
    l1.content.width = lwidth;
    l1.content.height = lheight;
}

This resizes the picture when it is fully loaded. This seems to work fine on my own site, but on the sites to which mochi ads has distributed it, it doesn’t resize the image at all, even if it is left to fully load.

Does anyone know why this might be the case?