Stencyl / HaXe : Loading files using URL

==Loading files from URLRequest==

All the targets accept URLRequest, but the iOS and Android devices like HTTPS and the

location seem to be different than the site they loaded from.

Flash has to reside on the same Base-URL in order to work.

The Alpha-stages of the game was posted on the Dropbox folder Public

The .SWF and the HTML with embeded code was posted here as well.

The APK (android) and API (iOS) were deployed using a website and iTunes.

First turn on the Tile API with Settings => Extentions => Tile API enable

We create a scene event/behavior

Add Event : Advanced : Custom Import

// Change bitmap

import nme.display.BitmapData;

import nme.display.Bitmap; // when converting data

import com.stencyl.Data;

import com.stencyl.models.scene.Tileset;

import com.stencyl.models.scene.Tile; // for empty Tileset creattion

// URL loading

import nme.display.Loader;

import nme.net.URLRequest;

Create a Code Block:

+ Add Event

 Advanced : Custom Code Block

//public variables:

var bitmapData:BitmapData;

var theBitmap:Bitmap;

var loader:Loader;

public function onComplete(event:Event){

   

// We will receive some data from the event

// Convert the event.currentTarget.loader.content (bitmap)

var bimg:Bitmap=new Bitmap(event.currentTarget.loader.content.bitmapData);

//draw the bitmap onto the bitmapdata we casted from the tileset

bitmapData.draw(bimg.bitmapData);

// If you know the TilesetID you can avoid this find-resource thing.

// The ID number of the sheet can be found in the Tile-editor in Stencyl.

// The number will increase if you add/remove tilesets.

// find the resource where the bitmap is going to be replaced into

var i:Int = 0;

for( i in 0 ... 100){

if(Data.get().resources.get(i)  != null ){

           

          // Temporary Tileset to compare the found resource with

          var ati:Array<Tile>=new Array();

      var tt:Tileset=new Tileset(0,0,"ats1_351",0,0,0,0,ati);

          if(""+Type.typeof(Data.get().resources.get(i) ) == ""+Type.typeof(tt)  ){

           // Replace the tileset datasource with the new bitmap

         cast(Data.get().resources.get(i), Tileset).pixels=bitmapData;

             // tell the devices it has a new tileset

          cast(Data.get().resources.get(i), Tileset).setupTilesheet();

      }

 }

}

   

}

In the start event we will create the bitmap:

var height:Int = 1024;

var width:Int = 1024;

bitmapData=new BitmapData(width,height, false,0x000000);

When we load the data:

Stencyl block

[set [theURL] to [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/09091092309252/file.png] ]

loader = new Loader();

loader.load(new URLRequest(_theURL));

loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);

IMPORTANT:

Add a Custom block from the Tile API:

[set tile at row [1] col: [1] layerID [0] using tileID [5] from tilesetID [3] ]