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

[Phil Ward]

I'd get myself a copy of Flash Jugglor it will solve all of your problems

and allows for executing files as well. www.flashjester.com


Regards


Phil Ward

Crescent Graphics

phil-wcrescent-graphics [dot] co [dot] uk

New Media <> Internet <> Visuals <> A/W




----- Original Message -----

From: Andries van der Leij <

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Sent: 11 November 1999 12:25

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



> 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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>

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