This may seem stupid to you, but there are (rare) cases, where you are writing to a BitmapData object dynamically and you need to resize the canvas. The black border will go away as soon as you write new pixels to the enlarged canvas.

Before you try to troll on someone’s blog, you may want to make sure you know what you’re talking about.

And for all the commenters who are complaining about how this doesn’t scale the image… The post is titled “Resizing BitmapData WITHOUT SCALING.” Duh!

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Use of QR Codes for web sites in my mind is extremely short sighted and the cause for the distain and confusion.  They’ve been abused as an advertising vehicle giving value only to marketing firms and taking advantage of users.

If I see a QR Code on a poster there are generally two options
1) I can scan it and get something *awesome*
2) I can scan it and get more advertising (movie trailer, bad web site, etc).

Guess what?  It’s almost always option #2 that comes to fruition because it’s advertisers who made the poster.

I’m looking forward to people using QR Codes for all kinds of awesome things in the future.  None of these awesome things include redirecting me to a mysterious web site and making me feel like I just wasted my time.

Mike

To demonstrate the flaw of your technique, try going from a 400px sized bitmapdata up to a 600px sized bitmapdata and see what happens. All you get is a black border around the image, because you are not actually resizing.

Your last statement is also a bit ironical. Because this is actually a very fast method, but it does not get the job done. I feel you should really have tested out your own code before you make a statement like that.

I just want to reduce the dimension of the bitmap.

Let me explain :

A = a Sprite / Movieclip [ containing a photo of 400 x 400 pixels ].

Now I want to display the whole data into another Sprite / MovieClip B with 200 x 200 dimension and without loosing any portion of A.

I know I can do it after replacing the bitmapdata of B and then reduce the B to 200 x 200. it will work fine. But I just want to do it without scaling the B.

Is it possible????

[Embed(source="./fonts.swf", fontName="GG Subscript")]
public static const subscriptFont:Class;

var textField:UITextField = new UITextField();
textField.embedFonts = true;

textField.text= “HELLO has[sub]been[/sub] embeded.”;
textField.selectable = true;
textField.background = true;
textField.multiline = false;
textField.width=400;

Alert.show(textField.text + “hi1″);
TextFieldUtil.subscript(textField);
Alert.show(textField.text + “hi2″);
this.addChild(textField);

can someone tell what’s wrong in my code? I am using flex builder 3

var style:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
style.parseCSS(‘sub{font-family:”GG Subscript Sans”;display:run-in;}sup{font-family:”GG Superscript Sans”;display:run-in;}’);
displaytext.styleSheet = style;
displaytext.htmlText = “This is normal text this is subscript and this is super script!”;

I’ve been targeting the Big 3 smartphones when it comes to design;
Android
iphone
Blackberry

I’ve also been using your suggested screen size of 240 x 320. It seems that using the given size on the Big 3 is most definitely the way to go!

field belongs to class
variables are declared within functions

I never had a problem distinguishing, as I try to keep fields first, properties second, events following them and methods last.

I typically name a field like _sample, and variables like sample, and the property like Sample. You won’t get confused until you use delegates But when you do understand delegates, you’re probably C# first-class citizen.

void foo() { foo(4); }
void foo(int mass) { …}

But may give more flexibility, e.g.
void move() {move(0,0);}
void move(int x, int y) {…}
by allowing to define cases when ‘optional’ parameters must come together

another good idea is to trace the name of all the embedded fonts and copy the font names from the traced values, that way you always make sure you are using the right name: http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/text/Font.html#enumerateFonts%28%29

It’s a shame that the we still have to use Flash to embed fonts since the Flex compiler doesn’t have all the features and isn’t reliable.