[Flashr] Help with correct language.

Wed Apr 29 14:02:14 PDT 2009

Hi again Kelvin.

LoaderContext doesn't work in AS2 i'm afraid, but your second suggestion got me thinking, so i'm gonna go with that concept for now :)
Thanks for all the help, for now..
The threat that i may bug you with silly questions again is always present..

Big thanks, Jørund.

> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:12:45 -0700
> To: flashr at osflash.org
> From: kelvin at kelvinluck.com
> Subject: Re: [Flashr] Help with correct language.
> 
> Hi Jørund (not Ty!),
> 
> afaik the images hosted by flickr are all jpeg, gif or png and all of  
> these formats can be directly loaded in flash. I think the reason Mario  
> would have passed the images via his server is because of security  
> restrictions in flash that prevent you from accessing the BitmapData of  
> images that have been loaded cross domain. In as3 you can get around this  
> using a LoaderContext - it's been a long time since I've written any as2  
> so I'm not sure if they added something similar to as2. I would suggest  
> searching for this.
> 
> Alternatively all you need to do is write a simple proxy script for your  
> server which will take the URL to a flickr photo and pass the image file  
> through to the requestor. Then edit Photo.as from flashr and change the  
> _urlStart getter to point to the proxy script on your server passing the  
> photo URL rather than pointing directly to the image on Flickr.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Kelvin :)
> 
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:33:49 -0700, Jørund Skarvang Olsen  
> <jor_s_olsen at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Thank you for the response..
> >
> > Well yes it's a serverside script, and i'm gonna convert the images from  
> > whatever format they come in, to BMP for example.
> > But the thing is, i need it to happen in Flash, the actual viewing of  
> > the images, but as far as i know (which ain't very far) AS2 don't have  
> > any image converting abilities..?
> > I need to retrive images to a serverside script, convert them to BMP,  
> > and send them into a slideshow in Flash, which is going go on for many  
> > weeks of the time.
> > In the background it will from time to time refresh the array of images  
> > that will be retrived by tag, and send the new ones in to the slideshow.
> > So, can i retrive the images with Flashr, send them out to for example a  
> > PHP script converting them, and the send them back in?
> > Or would it be easier if i retrive them with the PHP, then send it in to  
> > flashr afterwards?
> >
> > To sum up, i need to retrive and convert images to BMP and show them in  
> > Flashr, in some way.
> > The people that i'm working with spoke with Mario Klingemann, and he  
> > does this, converting the images before sending them into Flashr, as BMP  
> > is much easier to apply effects on etc, much easier to fuck around with,  
> > to put it straight.
> > He didn't specify anything tho, so now i'm asking here.
> >
> > I don't really know if this made it any clearer.
> >
> > ~Jørund Skarvang Olsen.
> >
> > PS: The "Ty" was just a short for thank you :)
> >
> >> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:45:59 -0700
> >> To: flashr at osflash.org
> >> From: kelvin at kelvinluck.com
> >> Subject: Re: [Flashr] Help with correct language.
> >>
> >> Hi Ty,
> >>
> >> Sorry for the slow response...
> >>
> >> I'm not I understand exactly what you are trying to do... You want to  
> >> have
> >> a serverside script which grabs some images from Flickr and manipulates
> >> them and then sends them to flash? If so then it seems like your
> >> interactions with the Flickr API will happen in whichever serverside
> >> language you are programming in.
> >>
> >> What kind of manipulations are you intending to do to the images? You  
> >> can
> >> do quite a lot of stuff in Flash itself these days. But if you must do  
> >> it
> >> serverside then Image Magick or the GD libraries built into PHP should
> >> help you (depending on your serverside programming language). And on the
> >> flash side you will be communicating directly with your own serverside
> >> scripts so you won't need to use Flashr at all. There are Flickr API
> >> wrappers available in a number of serverside languages - you can find  
> >> them
> >> listed on Flickrs site.
> >>
> >> Unless I misunderstand exactly what it is you are trying to do?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Kelvin :)
> >>
> >> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:38:17 -0700, Jørund Skarvang Olsen
> >> <jor_s_olsen at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > I'm not after detailed answers or anyting like that, but if i could  
> >> get
> >> > a push in the right direction it would be nice..
> >> >
> >> > I want to retrive photos from Flickr and convert them before sending
> >> > them into my flashdocument, sending them in with XML.
> >> > But what language or software will be best to do so? The retriving of
> >> > the images and the converting.
> >> >
> >> > I found this: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
> >> > May this be a good solution?
> >> > Implementing it into a XML script that retrives the photos, and  
> >> sending
> >> > it back into another that forwards it into the flash file?
> >> >
> >> > Kinda new at this, so don't kill me.
> >> >
> >> > Ty.
> >> >
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