Re: FLASH: Fixing height and width in a swf

[Malte K�hrer]

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

>Flash portfolio: http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/portfolio

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