Re: A Panning Shot in Flash?

[John Croteau]

Bryan Douglas Wilhite wrote:


> I'm not sure what's going on here. Is there a complete discussion of this

> on a Flasher web page?

No, only here on the List as far as I know. It's based on observation

and experimentation. For instance the right hand frame at FlashCentral

is set at 810 wide x 620 high. The size (ratio) was approximated

mathematically and then refined by adjusting the width until the frame

filled the main browsers with the least over/under scan. 


> > Re Bryan and all,

> >   I touched on this before.

> > If you are using the default scaling option Showall and set height (y)

> > and width (x) as 100%, the movie canvas will maintain its aspect ratio

> > as set in the authoring enviroment. Only one parameter (x or y) will

> > fill the screen at 100% (unless the aspect ratio of the browser frame is

> > exactly the same as canvas). The other dimension parameter will display

> > the canvas width with space on the sides. The space on the sides is not

> > neccessarily empty it could be filled with the Flash that originally

> > appeared off the edges of the canvas in the authoring enviroment (if

> > there is nothing off canvas it will be blank). If you are panning

> > horizonally and the aspect ratio is such that the x fills the browser

> > frame before the y, then the left and right edges will be the same as in

> > the authoring enviroment. There is some small variation between various

> > browsers.

> >

> > If you need an exact cut-off, use top level screens (one on the left and

> > one on the right) to cover all the graphics that appear off the edges of

> > the canvas. Align filled rectangles to both the left and the right edges

> > of the canvas.


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