Using Filereference to load image from server not local disk

Content
1

Hi

I am currently using filereference in as3 to load a file from the users local disk and display instantly within a loader on the stage. This works fine but i am now needing to load files that are already stored on a server not the local disk, is this possible?

I have tried loading the url into a loader object but this takes far too long if the image is quite big where is filereference is almost instant.

My current code is:


var mFileReference:FileReference;
browseButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onBrowseButtonClicked);

function onBrowseButtonClicked(event:MouseEvent):void {
	mFileReference=new FileReference();
	mFileReference.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, onFileSelected);
	var swfTypeFilter:FileFilter = new FileFilter("JPG/PNG Files","*.jpeg; *.jpg;*.gif;*.png");
	var allTypeFilter:FileFilter = new FileFilter("All Files (*.*)","*.*");
	mFileReference.browse([swfTypeFilter, allTypeFilter]);
}

function onFileSelected(event:Event):void {
	mFileReference.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onFileLoaded);
	mFileReference.load();
	browseButton.visible=false;
}

function onFileLoaded(event:Event):void {
	var fileReference:FileReference=event.target as FileReference;
	var data:ByteArray=fileReference["data"];
	mFileReference.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onFileLoaded);
	var movieClipLoader:Loader=new Loader();
	movieClipLoader.loadBytes(data);
	movieClipLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onMovieClipLoaderComplete);
} 

function onMovieClipLoaderComplete(event:Event):void {
	var loadedContent:DisplayObject=event.target.content;
	var loader:Loader=event.target.loader as Loader;
	container.addChild(loader);
}

Is there anyway i can take out the browse and selected stages and just load the server based image? Any help would really be appreciated

Thanks

2

Of course you can load remote files, but there’s no magic that can change the time difference between a locally loaded file, and one that’s being loaded over a network. If this time to load is an issue, then work on optimising the stored file to only the quality and resolution necessary to display at screen resolution.

3

Thanks Eastcoast, i had funnily enough thought of doing that as my only option so i am now going to use the imagejpeg function in php to roduce a very low quality version which should hopefully speed up the loading issue