Re: A Panning Shot in Flash?

[Bryan Wilhite]

Let me step through this slowly...


> > > 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.


This means that there is no need to supply numerical x and y values in 

the HTML? I had no idea one could use percentages in the EMBED and OBJECT 

tag WIDTH/HEIGHT parameters. If this is true then then is cool.


> > > 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.


Does "space on the sides" imply that elements which were "cropped" by the 

movie dimension in the authoring environment show up in the...


Wait! You MUST use exact numbers in the EMBED or OBJECT tags. I suddenly 

thought about my "Night in Nijinsky" piece at www.kintespace.com. In that 

animation I use a symbol that is much larger than the movie frame. I 

never had any "space on the sides" problems with "Nijinsky" because I never 

tested this piece WITHOUT HTML tags giving the EXACT dimensions.


I'm sure I "discovered" this cropping problem when I picked up a .SWF test 

file and just threw it in a Netscape browser window. No tags; no nothin'.


NEW RULE (?): never test a Flash animation without using the appropriate 

tags because bad things will happen!


If any Flasher finds exceptions to the above rule please let me know!


-- 

Bryan Wilhite 


the kinte space: cyberverse for the masses...and volumes


It's beyond the kente fabric of reality...

It's beyond all thang we dream about.

http://www.kintespace.com


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