Resize Image before Uplaod In flash AS3 using AJAX

You can resize some bitmap, or movieClip, etc. to a new size by making a new bitmapData at the desired size and drawing the source into the new bitmapData. When doing the draw use a Matrix to accomplish the scaling. Something like so:

var newBitmapData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(320, 240);

var m:Matrix = new Matrix();

m.scale(newBitmapData.width / originalBitmapData.width, newBitmapData.height / originalBitmapData.height);

newBitmapData.draw(originalBitmapData, m);

Resizing the image is done by changing the width and height of the Bitmap. You'd then convert that to a BitmapData, then convert that to a JPEG, then upload that to a script (PHP etc).

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Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/