experiments: February 2008 Archives

By default, the Flex image component does not enable smoothing on scaled images, which makes them appear jagged.  Ben Longoria has written a great SmoothImage class that overrides the image component and sets smoothing to true.  I needed a bit more functionality out of it, so I have extended it a bit further.  I wanted:

• Smart resizing which scales the image only if it won't fit in the application bounds
• Drop shadow on the image
• Centered preloader that displays while image is loading

I have written an updated class that expands upon the original SmoothImage, and includes these new features.


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Here is SmoothImageLoader.as