Comments on: AutoFitArea – Stretch/Scale/Position DisplayObjects to Fit Within a Rectangular Area

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 05:54:10 +0000

ACJ, you can resize and reposition an AutoFitArea anytime and it’ll automatically adjust all the attached DisplayObjects. You can force an update by calling its update() method.

By: ACJ

ACJ — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:41:26 +0000

Great tool! Just one question:

Let’s say I’m building a photo gallery for mobile devices (like your panel-scroll example), and when the screen rotates, not only does the image rotate, but scales proportionally, as well.

When using AutoFitArea, do I create one instance and attach multiple pictures (displayObjects) to it, or do I have to create multiple AutoFitArea instances?

By: Clark

Clark — Sun, 01 May 2011 21:29:27 +0000

This really is excellent. A++

By: Adam J

Adam J — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:39:13 +0000

One on the most useful tools i have ever seen. Great stuff, thanks for sharing:)

By: Lucy Minshall

Lucy Minshall — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:48:03 +0000

Thanks for that, of course I didn’t think about using the matrix parameter, I am indeed using BitmapData.draw() at the moment.

I have seen the transform manager, it’s also a great tool.
I’m actually just scaling the image using a slider and have just used flash’s native components for that.

Thanks again for your help.
Lucy

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:47:32 +0000

Lucy, it sounds like you’re just saving it incorrectly – are you using BitmapData.draw() or something? Remember, that always gets rid of all transformations unless you utilize the “matrix” parameter. That has nothing to do with AutoFitArea though.

If you need interactive scaling/rotating/moving, you might want to check out http://www.greensock.com/transformmanageras3/ (not sure if you saw that already).

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:35:51 +0000

This is such a fantastic tool!
I’m currently creating an application for users to upload and image then scale it, move it, then save the new image.
AutoFitArea is great as when the image uploaded, regardless of size it scales the image to the defined area.
My only issue is, when the image is saved, it saves it at it’s original scale, not the scale from the AutoFitArea.. Is there anyway to set the scale that the AutoFitArea has applied, to be the new default scale of the attached display object?
Thanks

By: admin

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:35:20 +0000

Yoshiyan, Flex requires that only objects that extend UIComponent can be added to the display list (well, at least that’s the general rule). AutoFitArea extends Shape, as do the masks that it creates when you set crop=true, so Flex burps. You should be able to easily solve this, though, by changing the “Shape” references in the class to UIComponents.

By: Yoshiyan

Yoshiyan — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:56:41 +0000

Can it work well in Flex? I have a try, but it seems that it will not work if I apply the option corp = “true”,

Best regards
Yoshiyan

By: sascha

sascha — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:52:16 +0000

Thanks so much for LiquidStage! You made my Day with this fantastic Tool.

Best regards
Sascha