FLASH: Resising an existing swf to be used as a projector

[Andries van der Leij]

Hello Flashers


I'm making a autostart flash movie for a CD-ROM.  When you put the CD-ROM

in your drive, a flash projector is automaticly started. There is a main

menu from which you can choose to do installations of applications, go

directly to the internetsite of the company, start the CD-ROM, there's a

tutorial and you can close the window.

This all works quite well. The autostart projector is the movie with the

menu, and the other projectors (for instance the tutorial projector) are

other projector files. I've made the movie's with a fixed size, using the

FS command for standalone players: FS command fullscreen = true, FS

command allowscale=false. The result is thet you get a black screen with

the (small) movies in the middle (if you set the backroundcolour to

black).

I've made all the movies, but now the company wants the movies to be

BIGGER. I just can't find a way to resize the movies without having to

rebuild the whole thing, because there are only a few FS commands for

standalone players:

If i set FS command allowscale =true the movie fills the whole screen and

I don't want that, I just want it to be a bit bigger.

If i set FS command Fullscreen =false i don't have the nice black CD-ROM

look.

When you make a swf and put it on the internet you can resize it  all you

want, but is there an action that can set the Size of the WHOLE movie to

a certain fixed size and create from this movie a projector. Does a

standalone movie player understand such an action? Or is there perhaps a

a third-party application (flashjester?, screenweaver?) that can do such

a thing?


I would very much appreciate a solution. Thanks in advance,


Andries van der Leij

Andriesthemetrostation [dot] com

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