Flash :: Aligning And Positioning In Flash

Flash & Javascript Aligning
Hey all,
Wasn't sure where else to ask, but I've recently run into a dilemma. I have a flash movie that I want to play in a browser, where the top center of the flash is always visible no matter the size of the browser. Now, I know how to center things, mind you, but when the browser is smaller than the movie, only the top left portion is visible. I've been told the only way to have a flash aligned as such that it keeps the center of my movie in the center of the browser at all times is with javascript. Unfortunately, that is all I know, and alas, I am now here. I would appreciate any help on this issue.

- Fox

Aligning Flash In Html
arrhhhhggg
this is driving me crazy and I've posted this before but it still ain't working.
I'm building a flashsite and I can't get it to sit in the center of the screen it always sits in the top corner. I was given some code to fix this but then it moves the flash document into the bottom left corner instead.

the site is
www.the-undersided.com

is anyone can help it would be so appreciated

thanks

Aligning Graphics In Flash
Hi,

Is there a certain technique to align things (graphics) in Flash. Like in HTML because of tables everything is aligned 100%. But in Flash when you align manully even if there is 2 pixel difference thngs do not look very tidy and clean.

Thanks

Aligning Flash Properly, To The Left And Top?
I cant get my .swf to align to the top left, its sticking out about a 1/4 inch from the left and top, can this be aligned anyway guys? im stuck on this...thanks, i tried css but failed btw.

Aligning Object Within Scrolling MC (Flash 6)
This one has got me stuck.

I'm trying to align the arrow with the selected item. It works when you select an item directly, but as of yet, the arrow doesn't move accordingly when you scroll the MC ... it just stays still.

Edited: The subject title (a little more specific now).

Flash Text Not Aligning Correctly
Here is my problem. I am working on a menu as you can see from my .fla. What happens is when I click on the bottom two menu options (Triad and Crew) the top three menu options (Main Menu, In The Matrix..., and Clan) shift up and down depending on if I click the Triad or Crew menu options. I have made sure that they are correctly vertically aligned using the paste in place options, but can't seem to fix it. I would appreciate any light you guys could shed on this.

thanks
marshall

Flash Detection & Aligning SWF File
Hi there,

I had embedded my flash content using the SWFObject javascript but my client has come back to me saying that some people had commented to her that they could not see anything at all. They were also not prompted to download Flash/Shockwave Player.

So I thought I would change things a little so that I could direct users to alternate non-Flash content in the event they did not have Flash Player, and on this page I could entice then into downloading the player. I found an article on the Adobe wesbite realting to Best Practices for Flash Detection (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/ar...ion_print.html) and implemented the suggestions there, minus the express install part. The problem I have now is how to centre my swf movie in the absolute center. I've lost this alignment when I implemented these changes. Is there anything I can add to this part of the code which might help ?

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

</script>

Or any other suggestions to solve this problem ?

Would be most grateful.

Many thanks

Q

Aligning Flash Vertically With Swfobject 2 ?
how to center flash vertically using swfobject 2?

here is the html code, that right now centers the movie only horizontally. How to center it vertically?

PHP Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>Christian FM</title>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
        <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
        swfobject.registerObject("myId", "10.0.0", "expressInstall.swf");
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div style="text-align: center;">
            <object id="myId" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="816" height="616">
                <param name="movie" value="christianfm.swf" />
                
                <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="christianfm.swf" width="816" height="616">
                
                <div>
                    <h1>Alternative content</h1>
                    <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" /></a></p>
                </div>
                
                </object>
                
            </object>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

thanks for any help!

Aligning Flash Objects On Same Line?
How do I align the 2 flash objects on this page to the same line?

www.gpostal.net

Fullscreen Flash/aligning Movieclips
I have a Flash movie that i want to display full screen but inside of the Flash movie I have different movieclips that I want to align and stretch differently.

I have one large background movie clip that needs to stretch to the full width of the window size and remain centered.

The second movieclip does not need to stretch but should align to the bottom left of the screen.

Thanks.

Aligning My Flash Movie For Web Site?
Hi there
hope someone knows this. Am making website and i want my flash movie to appear in the center of a users screen no matter what screen size the have. I have made my movie size 800 x 600 as i think that the user's resolution would be no smaller than that. I know that when i publish the movie i can set alignment to "center" but i want it to be both vertically and horizonally center of the users screen when they view the website. Does anyone know how to do this? I think that there msy also be a way of importing the movie into a dreamweaver table and setting it up in the middle of tabel with columns either side. Anyone know??

Aligning Flash Movie Within Text
Hi,
I have embedded an swf within a paragraph text. In the embed tag, I have the align set to 'right', so that the swf sits in the upper right corner of the paragraph, and all of the text wraps around it. It works totally fine in Firefox on Mac & PC, as well as IE on a PC... but in Safari, the swf stays on the left side, and the text doesn't wrap--it starts on the line below it. I think it must have something to do with their not being anything in the 'object' tag, telling it to align Right, but I tried adding it in, and it didnt do anything. Here is what I currently have (without any right align for the Object tag):

-----

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="

Aligning Flash Elements Dynamically
Hi guys,

I've seen a number of sites recently that have elements of their content aligning themselves to the browser window. e.g. footers always at the bottom, headers always at the top. These two sites are good examples:

http://fullthrottleenergy.com/main.html

http://www.triworks.net/

Being a designer and not really codie... could anyone give me some simple pointers on how to achieve this?

Much obliged in advance.

Phil.

Aligning Flash With Html Table Cells
Any suggestions on how I can get my html tables to line up with the flash image? Check link to see what I mean.

http://members.shaw.ca/bjornw/testing.htm

When editing in dreamweaver they look lined up properly, but in a browser it is way off.
Will the alignment change on different resolutions etc. and what can i do instead if that is the case.

Thanks much for any help.

[edit: link]

Aligning Flash Movie Edges With Jpg's In HTML
I have created a flash movie that is 766 px wide by 750 px high. The html page that the flash movie is embedded in uses jpg. images to fill the remaiming browers area. (so it appears to the viewer that flash movie and html page are one seemless page)
The problem I am having is matching (aligning) the edges of the flash movie with the jpg images. I can get it very close, but it never seems exactly right. (The edges of the flash movie have a gradient and some color change.)

You can view my work in progress at: http://www.awitest.com/index_silver.html

My questions is: is there a simpler, less time consuming way to get the edges of the flash movie line up correctly with the jpg's in the html???

By the way I have Design Premium CS3, if any of those other programs can help with this problem.

Thanks for any advice!

Aligning Flash Movie Edges With Jpg's In HTML
I have created a flash movie that is 766 px wide by 750 px high. The html page that the flash movie is embedded in uses jpg. images to fill the remaiming browers area. (so it appears to the viewer that flash movie and html page are one seemless page)
The problem I am having is matching (aligning) the edges of the flash movie with the jpg images. I can get it very close, but it never seems exactly right. (The edges of the flash movie have a gradient and some color change.)

My questions is: is there a simpler, less time consuming way to get the edges of the flash movie line up correctly with the jpg's in the html???

By the way I have Design Premium CS3, if any of those other programs can help with this problem.

Thanks for any advice!

Edited: 06/23/2007 at 08:46:56 AM by JeffAWI

Aligning Flash Movie Edges With Jpg's In HTML
I have created a flash movie that is 766 px wide by 750 px high. The html page that the flash movie is embedded in uses jpg. images to fill the remaiming browers area. (so it appears to the viewer that flash movie and html page are one seemless page)
The problem I am having is matching (aligning) the edges of the flash movie with the jpg images. I can get it very close, but it never seems exactly right. (The edges of the flash movie have a gradient and some color change.)

My questions is: is there a simpler, less time consuming way to get the edges of the flash movie line up correctly with the jpg's in the html???

By the way I have Design Premium CS3, if any of those other programs can help with this problem.

Thanks for any advice!

Edited: 06/23/2007 at 08:48:39 AM by JeffAWI

Help Flash Mx2004 Suddnely Adding Margins And Not Aligning
Hi

I am tearing my hair out with this issue amd I am hoping it is just something daft that I have done or a know bug that I can fix with your help!!!!

For some reason, Flash has started doing 2 odd things today...

1. It is adding a top and bottom margin/border/gap to all my published movies. I get rid of all the margins in Dreamweaver but even when the movie is right at the top of the screen, I get this 10 pixel gap.

2. Also I cannot get the movie to sit at the top of the page. It just floats in the middle even if i fix alignment in Dreamweaver (in in Publish Settings in Flash MX2004) to "top".

You can see this at www.digita.com.au/flash/problem.html

The fla is at www.digita.com.au/flash/problem.fla

This has just started happening today so I am very confused! Any help would be very much appreciated.

Sonia

Flash 8: Moving And Aligning An Object Along A Path Using StartDrag
This is my first post here, I hope I can find some help!

i'm busting my brains...

I am trying to build a navigation header for one of my projects right now... the header has a nice curve to it, and I want to get my nav buttons to ease-and-follow the x-coordinate of the mouse cursor, but still snap to the curve...

This is the 1st frame actionscript to get the object (follow) to follow-and-ease with the x-coordinate of the mouse:

mouse_x = _xmouse;
setProperty (_root.follow, _x, mouse_x+((getProperty(_root.follow,_x)-mouse_x)/2));

That works just fine for moving along one axis, but no matter what tweaks I try... I simply cannot get modify this actionscript to get my object to snap to a motion guide. I suppose I could define the path with actionscript, but I am unfamiliar with this technique and I am on a deadline for this project. The only tutorial I found for this method is highly in depth, complex and honestly I just need to bang this out (http://http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=952)

I tried cheating the actionscript by applying a clip inside of the object (follow), locking it to a motion guide and giving it a similar actionscript to the one above setting a variable for the sub-objects' y-position... No dice.

If somebody out there has done something similar and could refer me to a tutorial or FLA I would be IMMENSLY appreciative. Any thoughts at all would be great. Many thanks! ~Anthony

Flash 8: Moving And Aligning An Object Along A Path Using StartDrag & _xmouse
This is my first post here, I hope I can find some help!

i'm busting my brains...

I am trying to build a navigation header for one of my projects right now... the header has a nice curve to it, and I want to get my nav buttons to ease-and-follow the x-coordinate of the mouse cursor, but still snap to the curve...

This is the 1st frame actionscript to get the object (follow) to follow-and-ease with the x-coordinate of the mouse:

mouse_x = _xmouse;
setProperty (_root.follow, _x, mouse_x+((getProperty(_root.follow,_x)-mouse_x)/2));

That works just fine for moving along one axis, but no matter what tweaks I try... I simply cannot get modify this actionscript to get my object to snap to a motion guide. I suppose I could define the path with actionscript, but I am unfamiliar with this technique and I am on a deadline for this project. The only tutorial I found for this method is highly in depth, complex and honestly I just need to bang this out (http://http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=952)

I tried cheating the actionscript by applying a clip inside of the object (follow), locking it to a motion guide and giving it a similar actionscript to the one above setting a variable for the sub-objects' y-position... No dice.

If somebody out there has done something similar and could refer me to a tutorial or FLA I would be IMMENSLY appreciative. Any thoughts at all would be great. Many thanks! ~Anthony

Positioning A Pop-up In Flash
I have a site with multiple pop-ups containing information, forms,etc... right now the pop-ups come up in the exact center of the stage... but I'd like them to be in the upper right. How do I do that?

Here's what I have to bring up the pop-ups now:

on (release) {
_root.popup_pressed = 1;
_root.scrHEIGHT = 280;
_root.scroller.scroller.gotoAndStop(2);
_root.TM_title = "Horse Trails Survey";
_root.READ = 1;
_root.scroller.gotoAndPlay("s1");
}

PLS HELP POSITIONING THE FLASH MC
Hello guys!!!
Check this: http://www.inwww.ltd.uk/final/main_mc.html

How are the margins on your computer?
On mine in the left and in the right is about 5 milimiters with red....but on my collegues there are no red margins and the flash_mc is not all visible...(at me there are 5mm of red and on them 5mm from the flash_mc it's not visible......left and right).

How can i fix this?

Regards,

http://www.inwww.ltd.uk

Positioning My 'pop-up' Flash Window?
I am at a loss how to make my 'new window' created from the index page centre to my/the screen (or how iI would give it exact position commands??) I have an 'index' page that has a 'get url' command which sizes the new window to fit the shape of the swf file i created - but often it positions it half on half of the screen?

Please can anyone advise me on what I have missed - thanks

Furrball

Flash Websites Positioning
hi everyone

got an idea, and would like to know your opinion if it's worth trying (as I'm not sure if it is possible and how to do it

so.. Google has already started to index flash sites using the text inside the .swf files but.. it doesn't index the site but a single flash file and the link leads to this .swf file not the website.. the effect of such a link could be dissapointing

so maybe the .swf could check if it is opened in it's native site and if not then re-open the whole website in the current browser window..

and now are the two basic questions:
1. does it make any sense?
2. if yes how to do it?

will be really greatfull for any ideas and opinions

Positioning Buttons In Flash With AS3
My level of AS3 understanding: beginner (I am not a programmer, never used AS1 or AS2).

I am building a photo slide show Flash website from scratch and I am starting with the button. I am learning AS3 and Flash in the process and I am stuck at the beginning.

I created a custom button (actually 2) using this tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMzhJOCY6ik

(Now, I realize I could have used AS3 to create the button(s), however I decided not to at this point.)

Like that tutorial, the button embeds several movie clips and works exactly as I want it to: animated roll over and click.

What I want to do next is to create something similar to the YouTube (or other) movie player with just one button (not the entire bar at the bottom, just the animated full screen button).

1. Click on the button (let's call it A) and go full screen
2. On full screen button A turns into button B (and vice versa on Normal screen, just like the full screen button on YouTube)
3. Button A/B positions itself always in the same location onto the stage, no matter what the size of the browser is (that is some specific distance from the bottom right corner)
3. The size of the button remains the same while the size of the photo slide (when that is created) scales with the stage which is the same size of the browser window (or full screen, with cropping). Similar to a direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/v/hMzhJOCY6ik&hl=en

Now, I know this is the easiest part of the site, the slide show will be the hardest, but I am having difficulty in finding a good tutorial that teaches me this with some clean and simple AS3 code.

All I know at this point is that I create a package, import some classes, create classes, functions and variables. I get the general idea and I can create a logical flow. I still do not quite understand the syntax.

Are there any tutorials out there that can help me with this?

I can just start with positioning one of the buttons on the stage, I think that should be enough code for me to digest.

I want to understand this not just copy and paste...

Thanks.

Flash Movies And CSS Positioning
Is there any css tricks to get a flash movie to butt up tightly to the upper left hand corners? I can sort of get it to work in Netscape and Foxfire. IE is stubborn though. Has anyone done this before?

Thanks

Flash Resizing And Re-positioning
I have a flash app located at

http://www.triniscene.com/tsv7/galleries/?page=flash

now I want the flash dimensions to set to any reasonable size dimension in the HTML...while the movie adapts to the Stage dimensions. The problem I am having seems to be a browser issue. While in IE the movie takes the upper left hand side...it doesn't in FF...

I have the stage set to Stage.scaleMode = 'noScale'; and then set the _x and _y to 0...

what is the issue with FF here and is there any work around?

Positioning External SWF In Flash
I'm having a lot of trouble doing a simple positioning of an external SWF with AS3. I have a timeline animation that this external file plays in. It works but I can't get it to play in the right position.
Thanks for any help you can give!

The code I'm using is as follows. I tried:
thisLoader.x = 500
thisLoader.y = 500

but it has no effect...

Attach Code

// Part I -- Loading an external swf file and casting it as a useable movie clip

var thisMovieClip:MovieClip;

var thisLoader:Loader = new Loader();
thisLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.INIT, doneLoading);
thisLoader.load( new URLRequest("OBRotation.swf") );
thisLoader.x = 500
thisLoader.y = 500

function doneLoading(evt:Event):void {
thisMovieClip = MovieClip(thisLoader.content);
stage.addChild(thisMovieClip);

thisMovieClip.stop();
}

Positioning Text In Flash
guys - im a bit wet behind the ears so please have mercy.

im working on positioning text so that it comes out crisp and clean. is the only way of doing this letter by letter? it seems so cumbersome, i bet there must be some tricks or shortcuts?

but then, unless i "break apart" the letters and do them individually, a few always end up blurred.

thoughts?

any help would be fantastic.
anrick...

Positioning Flash Movie In A <div>
Hi all,

I want to place my .swf in the header of my CMS Page. But I'm having trouble positioning it in Intenet Explorer. I want it to show be vertical aligned at the bottom of a div.

This is the code I tried:

Code:
<div valign="bottom">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="370" height="41" id="Header" align="bottom">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="header.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#144787" />
<embed src="header.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#144787" width="370" height="41" align="bottom" name="header" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</div>
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Apologies if I posted in the wrong forum....

Regards
Beuvema

[Flash 8] DuplicateMovieClip Positioning
I am having a problem that seems similar to the one shown here: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=215026

The Scenario: I started trying to learn Flash last week, and I feel like I've covered most of the basics. Pushing forward, I've been giving myself little tasks that I'll eventually combine into a larger project. Right now, I want to mouseover an object, and have a number of movie clips appear in a circle around it. So far, I have a test object to hover over, and a test clip to duplicate.

The Code: I only want this to happen once, so I'm using a global variable to determine if it's already happened, which is set to 0 when the swf loads. The Actionscript is on the icon clip.

ActionScript Code:
this.onRollOver= function(){ if (circleMade == 0) {// Number of clips to duplicate var nItems = 5;// Radius of circle var circleRad = 45; for (i=0;i<5;i++){ var currentMenuButton = "roundMenuButton" + i; duplicateMovieClip (_root.roundMenuButton, currentMenuButton, _root.getNextHighestDepth());// Determine angle of rotation for current clip var nAngle = ( 360 / nItems ) * (1 + i);// Set X and Y based on rotation and radius var nX = circleRad * Math.cos(nAngle); var nY = circleRad * Math.sin(nAngle); currentMenuButton._x = nX; currentMenuButton._y = nY; } } else {} _global.circleMade = 1;}}

The Problem: As you can see here (http://www.fishspeaker.com/motion/flashtest/index3.html), hovering over the center icon seems to do nothing . . . but wait! The small silver ball is indeed being duplicated, just in place. Checking the debug Object List confirms this - what am I doing wrong with the positioning?

Feel free to ignore the window that pops up when the icon is clicked - that's another project entirely.

Positioning And Scalling In Flash 8
hi i'm creating a flash 8 website i have set a basic structure so far but when i view the site in a browser i cant get the stage of the website in the centre i have tried Stage.scaleMode = "noscale";
but cant get it to work can anyone help?

Positioning Objects On Flash
Hi,

How can i positioning a image on flash just like FWA Awards that many websites put on the corner left or Right. That when we change the size of the window the imagem still on corner left.

Images that i would like to positioning on a swf, 100% size, in html.

For example, this website have a bar on top and other on the bottom:

http://bowenstudios.com/

Thank you!

Positioning Problems In Flash
Hi!

I don't know if I'm just plain stupid or if there are more people out there that have the same trouble I used to have with positioning mc's in flash, but I have now just discovered the solution!

I am talking about the difference in Flash between positions the Flash GUI uses and those used by ActionScript. Positioning in ActionScript doesn't always use the same coordinates as the GUI does, but as I said, I've found the solution (finally!):
When you select the mc and open the 'info' window, you see the x and y positions on the right and to the left of this (in the middle of the window) there is a small array of squares... which are clickable. These let you select the corner of the mc to use in setting the position. By selecting the top left square it will always use the top left corner, even when the origin of the mc sits in the middle!

Again, I'm risking my reputation here , but I gladly do so to make sure everyone knows about this, 'cause it's been driving me crazy for years!

I hope this information will also help someone alse out there...

Z-Index Positioning Flash
Hey,

This is either going to be a simple question, or a really ugly one ; )

I'm short on space in this project I'm working on, and I want to dynamically render a absolute positioned DIV on top of a flash 5 movie.

I've got the DIV, I've got the movie, but I can't find a way of making the DIV appear on top of the movie, instead of behind it.

Is there a trick to this, or is it just not possible. (netscape 6.2 and IE compatable way that is)

Jher

The Jhereg
=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~
I never lie.
I'm building a reputation for honesty so I can blow it when something big comes along... This ain't it.

Absolute Positioning With Flash..
a la; http://www.notsosimpleton.com/2005/

i'd like to get certain elements in my flash movie to keep their position (i.e., against the right side of the screen) regardless of screen size/window resizing..

mind is blank.
paint me a picture.

Positioning A Flash Movie...
Okay, now that I have my button issue cleared up, I have an even stranger problem.

I have a flash movie that is 128x374 pixels.
I want to put it into a frame that is exactly 128x374 pixels, and I set the frame to have border=0 on all four sides.

So it should fit, right?

Well, no. It looks like the movie needs to be moved one pixel to the left, and one pixel up in order to fit perfectly.

But the movie is using a .jpg that fits perfectly, outside of the flash movie.

But here is the strangest part - the movie still fits within the frame. It isn't as though the .jpg was off by a pixel when it was inside the flash movie. It was touching all four borders exactly. So why on earth is it not working properly?

Below, I have a link posted to a .zip file of the project. You can open the WithFlash.htm, and then the WithoutFlash.htm to see what I mean. It is the exact same .jpg file.

http://www.prosarche.com/Arrgh.zip

Thanks a ton if you can help!

--Jerry

Flash Positioning And Opera
Hi,

I have the following problem... I've made a flash slide show that I want to include on my page. It works as it is supposed to but will display wrong in Opera 8.52 while IE and Firefox are OK. Does anybody have any idea what it can be, what am I doing wrong? There is no CSS styling appliedat all. The same happens with the html file published by Flash.

Many thanks in advance!

Positioning An External Swf In A Flash Miovie
bonjour
can anyone tell me how i position an external swf file in a flash movie,

Flash In Html: Positioning Problem?
Hopefully you gurus can help me with this one...

I'm desigining a site in dreamweaver (html), with the menu made in Flash. I've imported it ok and everything works fine on my PC. The thing is, when I view it on other computers (namely the high end macs at uni) the flash menu sticks out to the side by 1 pixel.

This puzzels me, as it's fine on my PC and the flash menu is the exact same width as the html page. Is this flash anti aliasing?

I'd love to be able to resolve this.

Anyone have a clue?

Thanks.

Text Positioning Problem With Flash?
okay this problem is killing me so any help really appreciated. I have one movie clip that moves over another instance of the same clip then dissapears - because they are in the same position (yes they are!) and exactly the same clip! when the top one dissapears no one should notice! - but but.. the problem is the text (im using device fonts) - it seems that when you apply movement actions to a movie with text it renders the text in a certain way that is different from if you dont apply actions - the kerning is all different and so in fact is the line spacing! does anybody have an answer or is there any way to not use device fonts but still have the fonts not anti-aliased??

ive been working to solve this one for ages so please help you experts of flash you kings of new england!