R: FLASH: can i resize a movie loaded into a swf?

[Andrea Rizzi]

Hi John,

thanks for your help,

i've tried the solution 3) and work fine!

(Before the istruction "Load Movie...." i must declare a dummy movieclip in

the main timeline with an instance name equals on "Load Movie into Location

..... ", its right?)


thanks

andrea

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From: John Croteau <

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Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 5:04 PM

Subject: Re: FLASH: can i resize a movie loaded into a swf?



> Hi Andrea,

>

> > Can i resize a movie that i have loaded with istruction "Load Movie"...

?

> > I've tried with "set Property("_level1/",_width) = new_valuex" where

> > new_valuex is a variable loaded from txt file

> >

> > Anybody have some idea to modify property of another movie (such as

> > x,y,width,height, and so on)?

>

> Depending on actually what you want to do:

> 1) You can only change the stage dimensions by loading a new movie into

Level 1.

>

> 2) You can however modify all the contents on a timeline:

>

> Set Property ("_level5", X Scale) = "50"

> Set Property ("_level5", Y Position) = "50"

>

> 3) You could also use Load into Target and control the movie as a regular

movie

> clip.

>

> It is possible you are applying your properties before the new values have

been

> loaded.

>

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