Stroep

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Update Image class – added contextMenu (3)

November 6th, 2009, under Actionscript, Other.

I’ve updated my Image class. It is irritating flashsites break the right-click contextmenu. Well, I can’t fix that and Adobe should look at that, but I think it would nice to add some of the browser – features to my image class.

Currently I have these options added to the Image class:

View image
Views image in new window/tab. I used NavigateToURL to make this happen.

Save Image as..
Saves image on your computer. I used my ImageClass.saveLocal() to make this happen. This is only available within FP10, but I think this is no problem anymore because < a href = "http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html" > 93 % (September 2009) has FlashPlayer 10, so most people have it, and I don’t support outdated software ;)

Copy Image location
Copies the url to the clipboard, using System.setClipboard(url). It’s a pity I can’t create a ‘Copy Image’ function, because pushing bitmapdata into the clipboard is only supported in AIR.

Send Image
Sends the url to the mail-client, using “mailto:&body=” + src. Also a pity; I can’t add the image directly into the mail.

How to enable the contextmenu:

import nl.stroep.utils.Image;

var myImage:Image = new Image("myImage.jpg");
myImage.enableContextMenu = true; // enable it!
this.addChild(myImage);
 

I still love this class, I use it a lot. I want to encourage you to please add these kind of usability things to your apps / websites. And share them! Yes, it takes some extra time to create/add it, because this IS the finishing touch, but a lot of people will like this kind of features.

Download
Check out the Image class atgooglecode

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nl.stroep.utils.Image (2)

June 4th, 2009, under Actionscript, Code snippets.

Code snippetEasily create an image without taking care of loaders and URLRequest etc.
Most simple usage of the Image class:

import nl.stroep.utils.Image

var myImage:Image = new Image("myImage.jpg");
this.addChild(myImage)
 

You can also add the most common eventListeners to the image:

import nl.stroep.utils.Image

var myImage:Image = new Image("myImage.jpg");
this.addChild(myImage);

myImage.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onImageLoaded );
myImage.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onImageError );
myImage.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, onImageLoading );

function onImageLoaded (e:Event):void {
   trace("image loaded!");
}

function onImageError (e:IOErrorEvent):void {
   trace("image error", e.text);
}

function onImageLoading (e :P rogressEvent):void {
   trace("loading image.. bytesLoaded=" + e.bytesLoaded + " bytesTotal=" + e.bytesTotal );
}
 

Download
Check out the Image class at googlecode

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