Hey everyone! I’ve been scripting in Flash for about a year now at work. And I think I’m gonna start participating in this site 'cause it’s very very helpful. =]
Anyways, I’ve been working on a DXF import system. Now Flash MX 2004’s DXF import system never really worked well for me. Plus I need it to work within the compiled swf player anyways, not from the programming environment. Long story short, I’m using a 3rd party application (Autodwg - dwg to flash) to convert them to .swf from which I then fire off a simple loadClip call to bring it in.
The application asks for the SWF’s dimensions, and outputs it to that size. However, the application creates the movieclip with empty space around the DXF lines and whatnot to fill up to those inputted dimensions. If I import that converted swf manually (Import to Stage) into the programming environment, Flash automatically trims it away and the movie’s empty space.
Do you know if this is possible trim away the empty space of movieClips within the Flash player? Otherwise I can’t get the movieClip’s real dimensions and it just returns the inputted ones (i.e. 1000x1000)
Thanks for any advice you can offer me. I hope to do the same in return when I can. =]
