RE: FLASH: Super easy sizing question: Part Two

[Ryan Creighton]

>The easy answer for your boss is "no" since Flash alone won't do it. Sorry.


Oh, crap.  Now she's going to fire me.  Thanks for nothing, you buncha

jerks.


- Ryan Creighton



PS i'm kidding. Thanks for trying  :)



> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Randy Kato [rkatobraincraft [dot] com (mailto:rkatobraincraft [dot] com)]

> Sent: August 3, 2000 10:32 AM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Super easy sizing question: Part Two

> 

> 

> Tom,

> 

> Nice idea, but I just tested it and my suspicions were correct...it's

> unpredictable (works in latest versions of PC & Mac IE, but 

> not in latest

> versions of PC or Mac NS).

> 

> SWFs in tables only work reliably when they're set with 

> specific dimensions.

> When they use percentages they seem to get confused as to 

> which container

> they're scaling to -- the browser window or the table cell. 

> Often they'll just

> scale way down and cower in a corner of the table cell.

> 

> Ryan,

> 

> If you're target audience is IE only, Tom's idea is a winner. 

> Otherwise I

> haven't thought of anything that would work, and the only 

> ideas that seem even

> remotely possible go way beyond Flash and bring into question the

> limitations/capabilities of JavaScript, browsers, etc. The 

> easy answer for your

> boss is "no" since Flash alone won't do it. Sorry.

> 

> HTH,

> Randy

> 

> Tom Kerwin wrote:

> 

> > Why not put the .swf into a table..?

> >

> > You make a 2 by 2 table, height="100%" width="100%", and in 

> the top left

> > <td> put the .swf. Then you put transparent gifs in the 

> <td>s to the right

> > and below which give the minimum dimensions specified.

> >

> > I haven't tried it, but it just might work...

> >

> > Tom

> >

> > P.S. Very excited to have made my first posting...

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

>

> From: Ryan Creighton [rcreightonytv [dot] com (mailto:rcreightonytv [dot] com)]

> > Sent: 03 August 2000 14:04

>

> To: 'flashershocker [dot] com'

> > Subject: RE: FLASH: Super easy sizing question: Part Two

> >

> > Perfect!  Thanks.

> >

> > Now ... my boss wants to know if it's possible to publish a 

> Flash .swf that

> > will expand to any size when you stretch the browser 

> window, but it will

> > never get any smaller than, say, 500x400.   A taller order 

> ... is it doable?

> >

> > - Ryan Creighton

> 

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