Re: FLASH: Flash without a border?

[Byron Canfield]

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Comments below

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At 02:28 PM 1/8/99 -0800, you wrote:

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>I am working on with flash, and i can't seem to figure out how to remove

>the border.  Ok.  I have the flash embeded, and when the browser window

>is large then its fine. However, when you resize the window, the flash

>changes size(i want that) BUT a scroll bar appears on the left side. 

>How do i get rid of that? I want it so you can change the window size

>and the size of the flash will change and thats it.

>

>This is the code that i am using:

>

><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"

>codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=2,0,

0,0"

>width="95%" height="95%" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" id="index">

>  <param name="SRC"

value="http://home.earthlink.net/~mahalfamily/countdown.swf">

>  <param name="SCALE" value="noborder">

>  <param name="BGCOLOR" value="#CCCC66">

>  <param name="LOOP" value="false">

>  <embed src="countdown.swf"

>pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/" width="95%"

>height="95%" scale="noborder" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="0"

>bgcolor="#CCCC66" loop="false"></embed>

></object> 

>

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You need to change the SCALE parameter value from "noborder" to "exactfit",

in both places, but note that this will often cause at least a slight

distortion on some browsers, as not all are configured with the same

available window size.

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>Another question regarding flash... when I put this same page and .swf

>on my domain account, i had an error message.  It said: "This page

>contains information of text/plain and can only be seen with the

>appricate plug in" and it also had the missing plugin symbol.  BUT i do

>have the plug in as it works fine from my earthlink account.  Whats

>going on??? is it something to do with teh MIME settings on my domain

>server??  


You surmised correctly; the MIME type is not set correctly on your server.


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Byron Canfield, Canfield Studios (http://www.byronc.com)

President, Seattle Coreldraw Artists Network (http://www.corelsea.org)


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