Flash :: Centering Movie

Centering A Movie Over A Full Screen Movie
i've created a site that opens the main content (a Flash movie) directly in the centre of the browser screen using the 100% in publish settings and selecting the no scale option.

i'd like the background (another movie) to load independently, and to resize to fill the entire browser window. i'm using the following script in the background movie file:

Code:
Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
Stage.align = "LT";
bg.onResize = function() {
this._width = Stage.width;
this._height = Stage.height;
};
Stage.addListener(bg);

bg._x = bg._y = 0;
bg.onResize();

stop();
this works, but the Stage.align = "LT" line throws the main content movie to the top left together with the background.

if i remove this line, or change the align position, the background obviously won't fill the entire stage/browser screen.

can anybody please assist with my script, or is there an alternative method of achieving the result i'm after...

thanks

Centering The Movie
how can i get my movie to be centered in the window, and not on the top left?

Centering My Movie ...
how can Totally center my movie. I opened my HTML file through the notepad and centered it horizontally:

<center>
<my movie>
<center>

But how do I center it vertically.
If you want to see an example of my problem, click on the link:

www.mnolasco.com

notice that movie isn't in the total center of the page.
Someone please help

Regarding The Centering The Movie
i used
fscommand("fullscreen", "true"); // fullscreen
fscommand("allowscale", "false"); // movie will not be scaled
fscommand("showmenu", "false"); // hides the right-click context menu

i was helped wirth script to make my movie run on the center of screen but i dont want it to run full screen i s there any way i can keep my movie size same and can center it withoutmaking it full screen let me know
thankyou
alok

Centering A Movie
If I'm not mistaken, setting the HTML alignment to "default" before I publish my movie is supposed to center it in the browser window. I did this, but for some reason, my movie is still aligned to the left. Anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix it? Thanks.

Centering Movie
I'm trying to center the flash movie on my website (http://siteplum.com) without any luck. I tried div, center, and table, and I cleared the browser cache so I know I'm looking at the newest version of the html (that is, default.html). If anyone can help, it would really be appreciated.

Here's the code:

<noscript>
<div align="center">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="

Movie Centering
Hi all - I hope someone can help! When I publish my .swf the movie is not centered in the browser window, despite my publish settings indicating that it should do so! Its sort of off to the left leaving a large blank area to the right and below.
I'm sure there's an easy wasy around this but its driving me nuts!
Any help would be great guys....

Centering My Movie
I have made a flash web site that is contained in a 495px by 400 px border.  When I publish the movie the site is aligned all the way to the left.

I have went into the HTML coding and changed align="" to align="center", align="middle" and the movie still is positioned to the left side of the browser.

What am I doing wrong?  Thank you.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student. {Ralph Waldo Emerson}.

Centering My Movie On My Own Pc
Hey out there;

No doubt this is real basic know-how, but i still need help. When i publish a movie, to look it over on my machine, the movie is always hard left, never centered. So obviously, i went to publish settings and checked under the html tab and found that the flash alignment options are already 'centered'...

... it just doesn't seem to be working.

When you publish, how do you make your movie center?

Thanks
Hoss

Centering The Loaded Movie
I loaded external movie to level 1

now it is playing upper left hand corner.
How do I place it in the center stage?

Thx in advance.

Centering An Attached Movie
how do I center an attached movie? I have a msg pop up kinda attached movie from lib which on click of a button loads on the screen. Now i want this loading to be exactly in the center of the screen, no matter what size the user is viewing the movie at. (ie 800 X 600, 1024 X 768 etc). I laso have a fullscreen command in the beginning so the size of the monitor or the screen is not the issue.
I tried with _X & _Y positioning but the MC doesnt seem to move even a Pixel from its original position.
Please Help
Thanx in advance
Rgds
Bhaskee

Centering A Flash Movie.
Hello all. I'm making a movie right now that is 750x500 pixels in order to be displayed correctly on an 800x600 screen. The size of this site is similar to mine: http://www.choppingblock.com . It is just one big flash movie and somehow the actual content is always centered. Can someone tell me how to do this?

MX: Centering Movie Clip
Haven't been able to get help on this to a point which I understand... so if somebody can please reveal all knowledge to me, much obliged ^_^;

I previously exported a movie clip - say a flower. When I made the flower movie clip, it had the standard stage size of 550 by 400 pixels. I then import it into the library of my "demo" movie clip, where on the demo stage (600 by 500) in the center is a small little dot which I've marked as the start point. My flash program waits for the command, and then at the command "create a flower" uses attachMovie (literally - the command I have right now is:
attachMovie(item + ".swf",name,currentLayer) where item is the thing that the user wants to create, name is the itemname plus the currentLayer number to provide for multiple instances) to create an instance of the flower on the stage, setting the flower._x and flower._y to the startpoint's ._x and ._y

Unfortunately, the ._x and ._y of the flower is NOT the center of
the actual pixel flower, but the 0,0 point on the original flower stage of 550 by 400 pixels. So when I set the ._x and ._y to the
startpoint's ._x and ._y, my poor flower is shunted off onto the far
bottom right and subsequently off the stage. This point that it
uses for the ._x and ._y is usually marked by a cross hair when I
double click on the library movie clip.

Is there any way to a) redefine the cross hair point so that it's
NOT 0,0 or b) figure out the height and the width of the entire
stage of the movie clip and not just the pixelated area? Because
when I tried flower._height and flower._width, I only got the area
that has content in it (about 100 by 200), as opposed to the entire
original flower stage, which would be 550 and 400. Not all the movieclips I create have the original stage size of 550 by 400, so I can't just make an adhoc hack for that.

Centering The Flash Movie
is there a way to use actionscripting or javascripting to keep the flash movie centered (vertically and horizontally) on the screen and make it so that it will shift shape to fit the window no matter what resolution its in?

Frankie B

ps im using flash mx pro 2004

Centering A Flash Movie
is there a way to use actionscripting or javascripting to keep the flash movie centered (vertically and horizontally) on the screen and/or make it so that it will shift shape to fit the window no matter what resolution its in?

Frankie B

ps im using flash mx pro 2004

Centering Flash Movie
For some reason I'm having trouble centering my flash movie on my html page. First of all, I'm using Flash MX. In order to center the movie I thought I was supposed to go to the publish setting window, click the html tab, and then select 'center' for horizontal alignment and 'center' for vertical alignment. Yet when I open up the page in Internet Explorer the movie is always in the top left hand corner. By the way, the movie in question is fairly small so it should fit in the IE window easily. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? I'll check this post later tonight, as I'm at lunch right now.

Centering A Flash Movie In A CD
Hi:

I'm working on an autorun CD. The flash moive is 550px X 400px.

My question is: how can I get the movie to center on the screen when the CD loads?

Right now, the movie displays off-center.

Is there an actionscript code that can be inserted into the movie to make it automatically center vertically and horizontally?

Thanks for your help!

SP

Centering Movie In Browser
I am trying to center my movie in my browser -- I have it set to center align in the html publish settings menu -- but that doesn't seem to be working... am I missing something?? Thanks!!

Centering A Flash Movie
Hello,

In my Flash Publish settings, I choose horizontal=center and vertical=center. I also choose "noscale." My movie is 800px by 600px.

When I view my movie at 1024px by 800px, it is aligned to the top left corner. How can I make my movie align to the center?

here's the site(it's just a place holder right now): http://www.caillouette.com/cambreSite2/

thanks

Centering A Movie Clip
How to center a movie clip ? I have a movie clip that moves, and I want to center it in the center of the flash animation window when I press a buttn.
Thanks,

Centering A Flash Movie
Hi Everyone,

I'm on brink of tearing out my hair and slitting my throat. Using Flash was manageable but putting it into a webpage rips the charm of Flash away.

How on earth do I center a flash movie both horizontally and vertically on webpage in a resolution independent and cross browser compatible way.

I've posted on dozens of forums and got a lot of bulls*** in return from people who had no clue of what they were saying.

Someone help me out of this mess and I'll buy you a beer - the finest available! :-D

[f8] Load Movie Not Centering
I'm using this:

loadMovie("poker550x400.swf", blankMC);

to load a movie, and it's not putting it's top left of the loaded movie in the top left of the one I'm loading it to. Not sure what to do. I've tried to put the blankMC off the stage and the loaded swf only gets placed inside the stage bounds and doesn't go higher than the middle of the stage. There's nothing on the loaded movie that woud make it do that.

Confused.

I've got some other questions about this as well.

I'm actually loading a whole game poker into another movie's timeline. The poker game is a standalone swf that uses "_root" all over the place, so one of my questions is, will it work? I mean, I use "_root" in the main movie timeline, so I'm wondering if there will be conflicts.

Next is that I want to take the amount won playing the poker game from the loaded swf "chipCounter", into the main timeline variable called "cash", and added to the amount existing. I think I can figure out how to add the amounts, but I need to get advice on how to get the loaded swf to talk to the main timeline. Does that make sense?

Thanks for thinking about it.

jorge

Centering Movie (should Be Simple)
Okay, I've tried everything I could think of. I have a stage that is 1024 pixels wide. On this stage I have a watermark that is more like 1200 pixels wide. The problem is that when I try to center the swf in the screen, the full watermark appears on the left, and the swf gets cut off on the right.

here's my code:
ActionScript Code:
Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
Stage.align = "Center";
Stage.showMenu = false;

And in the publish settings under HTML, I have Noscale selected and for Flash Alignment I have "center" for both horizontal and verticle.

here's the site: http://www.caillouette.com/flywheelpress

On smaller browsers the watermark should be cut off on the left and right, with the swf in the center. Right now it appears as though the stage is aligning to the far left of the watermark, which is off stage.

any ideas?

thanks

Help With Centering Flash Movie
Hey guys and gals,

I'm having a hard time setting up my website page to center (vertical and horizontal) my flash movie in a browser. I was finally able to get it to fit screen no matter what resolution, but it looks more to me like it's aligning itself top/left.

Here is what I have:

Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>menu</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#ffffff" leftmargin="no" topmargin="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<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="100%" height="100%" id="menu" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="fb.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
<embed src="fb.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="100%" height="100%" name="menu" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Any suggestions what would be preventing my movie from centering?

Thanks!

Centering A Flash Movie
Here's my problem:

I've created a Flash movie I've saved on a CD as a .exe projector file. The .exe file will automatically open once the CD is placed in the computer's CD drive. When the movie is opened, I want it to play in the center of the computer monitor. Thus far I've not been able to figure out how to configure Flash so the centering on the monitor will occur. I know in Director, you have an option you can choose to make the centering occur. Is there a way in Flash to have the centering take place. Even if it means performing some Actionscripting.

An additional Note: I know I could use an FS Command to make it so the movie will place full scrren no matter the scrren monitor size. But since my Flash movie contains Bitmapped images whose resolution quality depends on having a stable monitor size, I can't use the FS Command because my bitmapped images get distorted.

Any help in this matter will be appreciated.

Centering A Loaded Movie
I'm loading several movies in level 1, all those are different sizes,
so what I'm doing is a button to load the movie and then modifying
the x and y properties. The problem is no matter where Y put the
_level1._x I get the movie loaded at bottom left of my stage, and then
on realease the movie is centered.

If I put this code
_level1._x = (Stage.width / 2) -175
_level1._y = (Stage.height / 2) -235

on press event is the same...

My actual code is:

on (press) {
loadMovie("01.swf" , 1);

}

on (release) {
_level1._x = (Stage.width / 2) -175
_level1._y = (Stage.height / 2) -235
nextFrame();
}

What I need is the movie loaded directly on center...

Centering Published Movie
Hello all.

I'm using the Flash player detection and it publishes the .html file in a way that I'm not familiar. I used to align the movies with <td> tags, but I'm no .html guru and this is much different that my previous way of publishing. How do I center the movie? As it stands now with the below .html file, the movie is placed on the left - which doesn't make sense since I have it set to - align=middle. I don't want to center the movie vertically, I just want to keep the movie at the top of the browser, but centered. How do I do this? Thanks.

// -->
</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">


<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
<td valign="middle" align="center" width="100%">
var hasRightVersion = DetectFlashVer(requiredMajorVersion, requiredMinorVersion, requiredRevision);
if(hasRightVersion) { // if we've detected an acceptable version
var oeTags = '<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"'
+ 'width="780" height="550"'
+ 'codebase="

Centering A Flash Movie?
Dear members,

How can I programatically (if possible) center my Flash Movie (home page)?

Thanks

Centering My Movie File
my movie file takes up all of the 800x600 pixels I've given it, but sits in the top left corner of my browser once published. the tutorial on centering it in the browser claims that I should simply change the dimensions in the publications tab to 100%x100%, with no scale. When I do this, the published html file has an itty-bitty version of my movie in the top center. Is there any way I can get an 800x600 version centered on anyone's browser, regardless of their resolution?

Previously, I had been told to use a table... not too sure how to do that, or if it's even necessary. Thanks a lot!

Centering Movie In Browser?
I know this has been asked hundreds of times, but I am still not having luck with centering my movie.
The thing is my movie is perfectly placed when I open my website on my Mac (both in Safari and IE). BUT, on a Windows machine, the movie appears in the top left corner. I am posting my index.html file where I'm embedding the swf. Maybe there's something I'm missing:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>My Title</title>

</head>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<body bgcolor="#3d2d1e">


<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="1000" height="800" id="bc" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="b.swf" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="scale" value="noscale" />
<PARAM NAME=salign VALUE="Center">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#3d2d1e" />
<embed src="b.swf" menu="false" quality="high" scale="noscale" bgcolor="#3d2d1e" width="100%" height="100%" name="b" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</body>
</html>

Centering Images In Movie
I just followed the tutorial on this website to make a photo gallery wit hthe sliding thumbnail. After completing the tutorial, I modified the layout myself to experiment. I made the whole entire thing bigger. I was wondering if anyone knew how to center the images within the movie. Thanks for any help!

Centering A Movie Clip
How to center a movie clip ? I have a movie clip that moves, and I want to center it in the center of the flash animation window when I press a buttn.
Thanks,

Centering A Movie On Release
i need a code that can center the movie when you release a button or any other function i just need the code for centering,,,

Centering Flash Movie With CSS
OKAY first off I DID use the search function and found nothing that told me exactly how to do it in laymans terms. I know this has been addressed many times.

I have a flash movie I want centered in the browser.

I don't want tables please.

I want to add the CSS into the published HTML.

Obviously I'm a newbie and comments like "just do it with a div" will be of little help.

I have done google searches and tried a few things but none of them worked.

Thanks in advance.

Centering A Flash Movie?
Dear members,

How can I programatically (if possible) center my Flash Movie (home page)?

Thanks

Centering Flash Movie
hi all, here's another question: how do i center the movie? it's centered when i preview it, but the html version is over to the left. in publish settings, i centered everything that i could. i tried looking at centered websites, but they're so full of javascript.

i edited my published html in notepad and added a centered table:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<TITLE>Untitled-1</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<table align="center" valign="middle" width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>

<center>

<OBJECT classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
WIDTH="720" HEIGHT="1200" id="Untitled-1" ALIGN="top">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="Untitled-1.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=salign VALUE=R> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> <EMBED src="Untitled-1.swf" quality=high salign=R bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="720" HEIGHT="1200" NAME="Untitled-1" ALIGN="top"
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>

</center>

<td align="center" valign="middle"></td>
</tr>

</BODY>
</HTML>

Centering Movie In Html Page
I want my movie to appear in the center of the browser regardless of screen res, yet no matter what settings I use when publishing it always appears in the top left hand corner.

Any help or examples of code would be appreciated.

Thanks

Alistair

Centering Object In A Movie Clip
I need to know how to center an object within a movie clip using MX. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Centering Flash Movie In Dreamweaver
Hi
I've decided to post my problem as I seem unable to solve it by my self (I'm quite new both to flash and dreamweaver).
I've made a flash navigation bar for my web page and I've inserted it inside a table in the top frame of my html page and centered it in the screen.
Under that, in the main frame, I have settled a table of the same width than the nav bar and I've centered it as well. They both seem to be perfectly aligned when working in dreamweaver, but they are not when previewing it on the browser.
If you are not following me you can check out the URL to see what I mean: http://usuarios.lycos.es/jvwebdesign/frames.htm
I hope someone tell me how to align both tables perfectly, since I cannot lose more time in such a trivial matter.
Thanks in advance

Centering A Flash Movie In A Webpage
Hello everybody!

I have two questions which are probably very easy but I'm new to Flash so I guess I'm not doing something right.

1. I have made a flash movie and when I publish it I want it to appear in the center (vertical) center (horizontal) of the webpage, how can I do this? I tried the publish settings in Flash MX but the setting "Flash alignment" doesn't seem to center the movie in the middle of the html file!?

2. I was wondering whether anyone knows about Dreamweaver stuff. I just can't find a forum for Dreamweaver help. All I want to know is how I can make my text and images stay where they are when a user re-sizes the browser page to a smaller size. For example, if you resize this page the text above which says: Flash Kit Community Forums > Flash Help > Flash MX gets scrunched up and moves to the next line.

Anyway, I be ever to grateful if you could help me out with my flash problem and if anyone knows about the second.

Thanks a million!
Spiros

Centering A Movie Clip Using Actionscript?
can you tell a movie clip to center itself relative to another movie clip, inside a movie clip, or in a swf using actionscript?

Centering Movie Clip And Page
hello,
it seems that my movie clip is not centered on my stage, and
when i move it, it doesnt do anything on the screen. so when i test it, it is not centered and when i publish it no matter what i do to the source it does not change position...

please help...

Stage Object? Centering Movie
I just saw this featured link on the site that reminded me of something I've been wondering about in Flash. This is the link:
http://www.curvemusic.ca/
And I have seen other sites that do the same thing:
http://www.kurtnoble.com/
http://www.bukwild.com/
http://www.fabrislane.co.uk/launch.html

Basically, if you notice, the main part of the site is centered on the screen. But the entire page (including the background) is part of the flash file. If you resize your window it doesn't scale the movie, it just reveals more of the background and re-centers the content. Is this done using the stage object in actionscript? Can anyone provide an example or point me to a tutorial on how this is done?

Frustration At Centering Flash Movie
I need a good way to center my flash movie in the middle of an html page. I've tried making a table within a table and formatting it to frame the movie but does anyone know of a simpler way to ensure that my movie is centered in the middle of this html page reguardless of the resolution the computer that's viewing it is set at?

Centering An Image Loaded As A Movie
Hi there

I've built a slide show for a gallery. The images are brought in to an empty sldeshow movie placed on the main timeline. Naturally the images are all aligned to the slidesow movie clip at the topleft. As i have both portrait and landscape pictures of varying sizes. how can i bring the image in using the centre of the imge as the location reference. All starts getting a bit too maths on me.

Any offer a solution

thanks in advance
ash

Centering A Flash Movie In The Browser
Hi - can anyone tell me how I can set a flash movie to display in absolute centre in a web browser? I need to centre one both horizontally and vertically.

I have managed to centre one horizontally in dreamweaver, by using the centre paragraph button, but am unable to set it to complete centre on screen.

Any ideas?

Problem Centering Movie In Page
Hi,
I just put up a page using the new "active content update https" publish item from adobe.
its a mxp file extension, see here "Installing the Flash Active Content Update extension"
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowled...fm?id=7c29e252
the one that eliminates the need for a user to click on the movie to activate it, and also redirects if they do not have flash8.

Now I can not figure out how to get the movie to center in the page both vertically and horizontally.

page is at
http://www.tossfad.com/
please take a look at my html
mark
PS comments welcome I just finished it for my pal paul
my third ever flashsite ;-)

Centering Movie With No Horizontal Scroll
Hey guys,

I have a new website that I am working on and I want the movie to be rather large horizontally for those with bigger monitors, but I basically want it to be like a centered css background image so that there will be no scrolling horizontally. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Any info would be much appreciated. Thank you!

[CS3] Centering Loaded Movie And Buttons
Hi,

I'm working on a site which has a stage listener to dynamically reposition the elements depending on the size of the stage.

Im loading a movie into this and want it to dynamically position also.

I have achieved this by loading it into an empty movie (instance name dropzone) on the stage,

on (release) {
_root.dropzone.loadMovie("collection.swf",1);

however the buttons in the collection.swf no longer find their targets, due to being loaded into the new movie. I was using absolute references within the collection.swf movie, and also tried relative references, but still no luck.

I have also tried loading into a new level with loadMovieNum

loadMovieNum("collection.swf", 1);
var xset = 200;
var yset = 200;

(where xset and yset are within collection.swf to control _X and _y)

and this allows me to assign the button references inside collection.swf to within _level1

tellTarget ("_level1.image") {
gotoAndStop(2); }

this works for the buttons, but the position of collection.swf is set, and not repositioned dynamically

Is there a correct way to assign actions to the buttons within the collections.swf file so that they are still recognised when loaded in the dropzone movie?

Thanks for your help.

Andy