Problems with loadMovie()

1

I am using the code that Kirupa provided in a tutorial on creating a photo gallery in Flash. On the website that I’m making, I have a “panel” that will house all of the pictures in my gallery, one picture at a time. The pictures contain various things such as figure drawings, renderings of 3d models and such. I wanted to make everything but the object in the photo itself totally transparent. For example, if I had a picture of a man standing upright with a solid black background, I want that solid black background to go away (become totally transparent) so only the man is visible. I have done so in Photoshop, but when I load the pictures into my photo gallery in Flash, the image is totally missing - in other words, the entire image is transparent. I then noticed that the loadMovie() function only accepts either .SWF or .JPEG files to load and JPEG’s don’t support any transparency. I need to use either PNG, GIF, TIFF or BMP. Anybody have any ideas on how I can get these images to display in such a manner??? For clarificiation, here is the code I used from the Kirupa photo gallery tutorial:

MovieClip.prototype.loadPhoto = function() {
	// specify the movieclip to load images into
	var p = _root.photo;
	//------------------------------------------
	p._alpha = 0;
	p.loadMovie(this.pathToPics+this.pArray[this.pIndex]);
	this.onEnterFrame = loadMeter;
};
MovieClip.prototype.loadMeter = function() {
	var i, l, t;
	l = this.photo.getBytesLoaded();
	t = this.photo.getBytesTotal();
	if (t>0 && t == l) {
		this.onEnterFrame = fadeIn;
	} else {
		trace(l/t);
	}
};
2

Hi

Depending on how large your gallery is…
You can create a seperate .swf of each image to load into your main slideshow. Insiside this new movie, import your gif or png or whatever and place it on the stage ready for display. Just use the main slide show to load these swfs instead of the raw image. Publish as transparent.

You “could” do it inside flash as well; by importing the image and using ‘trace bitmap’ to convert the image into something you can then delete the black background from, but this is a manual operation and can create larger files than you started with if too much detail is retained.

Hope these ideas help.

Findal
www.fndzinz.com