RE: FLASH: Fixing height and width in a swf

[Jason Bouwmeester]

One thing that I do at times is make a border on the very top layer - i.e.

match the b/g colour of the movie but extend a border around it up to 2x the

size of the movie to hide out these elements.


Hope that made sense and hth,

jb


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From: Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media

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Subject: Re: FLASH: Fixing height and width in a swf 



The question was regarding a standalone projector, not a web page.

-Marc


At 06:48 AM 5/23/2000 , you wrote:

>Sorry, going fullscreen is one of the biggest and most anoying mistakes 

>you can make. According to some of the logbooks I analyzed over 40% of the 

>visitors leave immediatly. For what?

>

>maltek

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>At 06:43 23.05.00 -0700, Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media wrote:

>>At 02:07 AM 5/23/2000 , you wrote:

>>>Hi all...

>>>

>>>Is there a way of either fixing the height and width of a stand alone swf

>>>file?

>>>

>>>My problem is that if a swf is played in stand alone mode and then

resized

>>>either on the h or w the stage area expands and the background appears

this

>>>tends to give the game away, particualy with bar animations (where the

ends

>>>become visible) or stuff waiting to come on stage.

>>>

>>>My boss seems to think he has seen swf that don't do this, is this

possible

>>>or is it a case of extending the animation stage limits.

>>>

>>>I know how to set this in html is it possible for the stand alone swf or

>>>player?

>>>

>>>         Mark

>>

>>Apply a frame action in frame #1. There are a number of FS Commands for 

>>Stand-Alone projectors; they are included in a drop-down list when you 

>>choose FS Command in the Frame Properties > Actions dialog. You would 

>>want either:

>>

>>FS Command: AllowScale  arg: False

>>- or -

>>FS Command: FullScreen arg: True

>>

>>The first prohibits the user from altering the dimensions of the movie.

>>The second eliminates the title bar and makes the player full screen. If 

>>you use this option, you should have a Quit or Exit button in the Flash 

>>with the FS Command: Quit, otherwise the user may be confused about how 

>>to exit (actually they can exit by pressing esc or control/command+Q, but 

>>who knows this?).

>>

>>Marc Hoffman

>>

>>Poison Dart Frog Media

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