THE GALLERY …
Once you sign in as a member you can add patterns to your gallery. Once you make them in the \”CREATE\” section they will be added to your gallery as recent images, from there you can add them to your saved patterns. You will also have a unique URL that will take you directly to your personal gallery. The URL is simply http://www.patterntest.com/patterndesigner/#/gallery? + your user name. You can keep a maximum of 25 images in your gallery.

UPLOAD IMAGES OR SWFS …
Whole new possibilities can become available by importing your own images for use in Pattern Designer. Open up the \’MAIN NAVIGATION\” window – then \”UPLOAD IMAGE\”. From there you can browse your computer for images you wish to import. Your custom image will appear in your current pattern and also be included in the combo box whenever you want to use it again.

RESTRICTIONS …
Rather than restricting it what it can do, I’ve allowed Pattern Designer the ability to create the biggest and most detailed images possible, pushing what an online design tool can accomplish. Because of this fact and depending on the power of your computer, Pattern designer can conk out. Things that may push it to hard include adding too many images, making patterns too complex, sizing images to big, or using excessive complex color.

This series of classes easily manage the uploading, downloading, encoding and saving of files into and out of Flash to the server.

The Filez set is basically broken  into a series of 5 classes …

Filez_Uploader along with the accompanying PHP file  uploads files or images with some added features, among them the ability to  set a  maximum file size,  set a maximum number of files in the directory, and the option to overwrite another file or not.

Filez_Encoder encodes either a .JPG or .PNG image. It actually uses two separate types of custom encoders  based upon ADOBE’s JPGEncoder & PNGEncoder. The JPG encoder comes courtesy of  Eugene Zatepyakin. I made a few mods to the PNGEncoder to return a progress event.

Filez_Snapshot ( for Flash 10+ ) uses the FileReference method to save directly without needing any server side technology, so if you just need the ability to save directly from flash you could just use Filez_Encoder and Filez_Snapshot.

Filez_PostByteArray posts ByteArrays to a server. It uses Jonathan Marston’s UploadPostHelper. Unfortunately it doesn’t support a progress event on upload though it should work more than fine for small to medium files.

Filez_Downloader downloads a file from a passed URL.

A few things you might notice about the classes … I’ve opted to use callbacks as opposed to custom events since they seem more reliable and can easily pass arguments back with them.

Here’s a stripped down sample usage of the FilezEncoder class …