Comments on: Loader is not resizing

By: rendra

rendra — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:29:05 +0000

Thanks a lot,,, it worked :)

By: admin

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:28:31 +0000

@Jorge

The size for display objects is always expressed in pixels. So you must always specify the width and height of the loader in pixels.

To use percentages, you need to make the math yourself, meaning that you need to calculate the new size (width and height values) in pixels according to the percentages you need. So, for example if you want to set the width to 60% (of the loader’s container or stage width or whatever reference point you have), you need to calculate the corresponding width in pixels and then set the loader’s width property.

You could create your own loader class that extends the existing Loader class and add it two more parameters for size that accept the size as percentages. It shouldn’t be so hard. You just need to pay attention to the math behind it.

I hope this helps.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:42:13 +0000

Hi, I know that this is an old post. But your last tip helped me a lot (:
Thanks!

Now I have a little doubt. What if I want to reset width and height in percentages? Do you know how can I do these? I want to display it and adjust in fullscreen mode. Can I do that?

Thanks again and in advance.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:42:33 +0000

Thanx!! It solved all my problems!!

By: johnjohn

johnjohn — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:48:03 +0000

try this: MovieClip(loader.content).var = “bye bye”;

By: matt danner

matt danner — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:11:06 +0000

Thanks for this. The solution to this problem is not as intuitive as one would think.

By: Jose Galindo

Jose Galindo — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:18:31 +0000

try this:

MovieClip(this.parent.parent).testVar = “goodbye”

By: Joe Hisashi

Joe Hisashi — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:49:33 +0000

The fun part is trying to get the loaded swf object to communicate with the loader swf object and vice versa.
To call a function of the loader object from the loaded object, you can do this:

var parentObject:Object = this.parent.parent as Object;

//now call a method in the loader
parentObject.test();

However, how do you read/write variables in the loader?

so if the loader has a variable: var testVar:String = “hello”;

How can I change it to “goodbye” from the loaded swf?

If you can answer that, you are a genius. Thanks

By: admin

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:14:00 +0000

@june_zhuhui

Thanks for noticing that. Indeed you need to add the listener to the contentLoaderInfo object and not directly to the loader object. I corrected the code. Thanks again.

By: june_zhuhui

june_zhuhui — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:33:41 +0000

I have solved the problem. Thank you.

But, I need to change the code below:

loaderObject.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, resizeLoader);

loaderObject.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, resizeLoader);