Flash :: Publish Exact Stage Size?

Stage Size + Publish Settings
Hi everyone,

I need to create a presentation in flash, ie. similar to a powerpoint slide type project. The problem is that I'm not sure what size to make the stage. Do I need to make it the same as the resolution of the computer it will be played from, ie. 640 x 480, 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768? Or do I need to know the size of the screen the movie will be projected onto?

Also, I'll be creating the presentation in flash on my mac computer but it will be displayed on a PC - do I need to publish the movie as a Windows Projector (.exe) file or is the flash player installed already on all PCs?

Would really appreciate any advice.

Thanks

Publish/Preview: Full Size Window VS Just Stage? Help..
When I publish or preview (control+enter, or apple key+enter respectively) my website, it displays the entire window.

When I publish or preview one of the samples done by Macromedia in the Flash folder, it shows only the stage.

I have to resize the window in the Macromedia sample to see outside the stage. With mine, I need to resize the window so only the stage is visible.

How do I script, or tell flash to only display what is on the stage?

Exact Size
I want my flash movie to open in a browser at the exact height and width. Is this possible? Thanks.

Exact Size
I made a Flash movie that's 550 x 400. I want it to open up in a browser window that is 550 x 400. Is there anyway to do this? I tried publishing with the dimension set at 100%, but it doesn't work. Here's another catch. I have to dumb it down to Flash 6 so that all my clients can view it. Please help.

Exact Size.
I have a movie that I need to open up the exact size of the movie without people being able to resize it. I would like to do this without creating a page in JavaScript that links to the Flash movie. Is there a way to make the Flash movie the exact size that it is created at without having to use JavaScript?

If the question is too vague, please let me know and i'll ellaborate a little further.

Thank you.

Exact Placement On Main Stage And In MCs
When I am working on a movie, I often have a hard time making sure objects and movie clips are in the same exact position.
For example, I have this control panel that appears on everyscreen of the movie, but as you watch the movie and navigate through, the panel jumps around a little bit. I try to use the info panel for the x and y positioning, but if the panel is inside a MC the x ans y info won't be the same if this object is placed on the main timeline. Does this make sense?
It happens to me all the time...even when I have objects, buttons, and MCs in a movie clip, then I want to start a new scene with these same objects, but not exactly the same objects so dublcating the entire scene doesn't work.

I guess my question boils down to: if you are working in a MC and then you have to take some of the same objects in that movie clip and position them in the exact same place on the main timeline, how do you make sure they are exactly the same. Or vice versa working from the main timeline into a movie clip?

Hope this isn't too general of a question. Thanks,
Christine

Exact Size Window?
I want to open through a button a swf file with the exact size that it has. I mean when a click a button, open the movie in 550x440 for example, with no explorer, scrollbar, or anything else, just like the preview player. If anyone can help?

What Is Exact Code To Load .swf In The Right Postion On Stage
HELP!

I want to make 6 external .swf's the when you click a button on my home page it loads the swf's into the exact postion the stage I want... to make it fast it would unload the previous .swf however if you could just help me get the damn thing in the right place I would be in debt to you for life......
check it out here:
http://www.xdesign.tv
the movie in the center is where I want all my movies to go however they never do...actionscript bites if your an idoit like me!!!!! anyway please someone help!!!!!!
[Edited by jonnycme on 08-24-2001 at 11:36 PM]

Importing Images To Same Exact Area On Stage?
I'm currently using Flash MX, NOT Flash MX 2004, but if this is something that can only be done easily in MX 2004, let me know and I'll use that instead.

I have a simple image gallery. I load all of the images into a layer (a sequence of images), Flash automatically places each image in its own frame, one after the other, and this works fine because to navigate the gallery I'm just using buttons that I set the actionscript to jump to the next or previous frame upon clicking. The gallery works great. No frills.

Here's the problem.

Sometimes I design a gallery like this where the images have to all be aligned in a very specific place, like say I drew a decorative flower border that each image is supposed to sit directly in the middle of or maybe there's a little line that I want all of the images to appear to be sitting on. When I import the sequence of images to the stage, it seems there's no way to control WHERE on the stage they go. They all are aligned the same in respect to EACH OTHER, but where they all go in the first place, I don't know how to manipulate.

Is there a way to do this? Like, say I had a big black box (a shape) and I wanted the left edge of all of the images I import to be aligned with the left edge of that big black box. Is there a way to define that so that when I click import to stage, all of the images will jump to the stage in that exact spot I dictated?

It just sort of drives me nuts, because as it is now, I have to go frame by frame and reposition every image and that's a hassle because I have to make sure they are all not only in the right place in respect to my design, but also that they're perfectly aligned with each other so that there's a seamless transition from one frame to the next. ACK! lol

Some help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Help Resizing Text To An Exact Size
I'm doing an animation in flash. I want the text to fade in from big to small and stay there. I want all the text sizes to be the exact same size when the animation is finished. How do i do that? i'm scaleing the text from big to small but when i am at the last keyframe the text doesn't seem to be exactly the same font size as the letter next to it. How do i get from point 1 to 2 exactly the same with all the text? I'm only using 2 frames for each letter. First frame is 1500 in size and the last one is 80 in size. please help. i hope that you can understand what i mean.

Thanks a lot people.

Constraining SWF To Exact Dimensions So Items Off Stage Do Not Show
I am new to flash and feel sure there is a setting somewhere that I am missing and hope someone can help me. I am an ad developer. When I create my ads and export my swf file, it looks fine in my computer because it opens in the flash software and the window it opens in is the exact dimensions of my stage. This ad is also fine when I upload it to my site. However, when I publish a swf to send to a client for approval, they usually will be viewing that file in IE or some other browser. I have noticed that when this happens, things that are off stage often show (problem #1) and the file maximizes to the size of their browser (problem #2). What can I do to keep this from happening? I currently have the publish settings for dimension to "match movie".

Thanks in advance for the help! I love flash if I can just get it to work for me!

Exact Size For The Internet Explorer Browser
Hello... I'm about to start a flash movie that'll serve as my website. I was wondering whats the exact pixel dimension I should type into the Movie Properites if I want the movie to fit Internet Explorer. This is because I want the movie to exactly fit when a person checks out my site WITHOUT taking up ALL of the computer screen . Any advice?

Having 2nd Window Appear Exact Size With No Browser Functions
Hey all,

I have been working on a few things and I came up to this problem.
I have a main splashpage with a button which leads to a separate page.(on release it is pulling up my doc.html, in a sep. window cause of the _blank)

My question is this: The new page that loads up I want it to be in the exact dimension that I publish it @. For ex: 800x600. I would like the user to have no browser options visible, no scrollbar, and no white bordering. Just the actual picture to pop up.

I went around to some sites that had this and tried to mess around with the source coding but as I am a newbie I cannot seem to get this to work out.

If any of you guys could help me out this would be greatly appreciated. For those that are still wondering what I am saying here is an example. www.futurebrand.com

the 2ndary page that loads has no browser integration nor a scrollbar with no background coloring. That is what I am trying to do.

Opening Window With No Navbar & Exact Size
Hello,

Is it possible to open a popup window from Flash MX that has no scroll bars, or nav bars, and is of an exact specified size?

Thanks!

Mike

How To Make Flash Do Pop Up Windows Of Exact Size And No Button Bar Etc.
I'm trying to make flash do pop up windows without the button bar etc and an exact size? is it possible?

Thanks

Opening A New Browser Window - Exact Size Of A Flash Swf?
Hi,

In Dreamweaver, I've previously used the 'open new browser window' behaviour from a link to display my Flash movies, and entered the .SWF filename as the URL to launch (this launches a browser window thatls exactly the size of the movie, no scrollbars, buttons etc). Can I do a similar thing with Flash's 'get URL' command, or does that only go to HTML/HTM files?

Cheers, Skratch

I Need My Site To Open In A Window That Is The Same Exact Size As The Movie...
I need my site to open in a window that is the same exact size as the movie and you cant maximize it , how can u do that? here is an example http://www.demographik.com/

thanx

Publishing Your Website To Match The Exact High And Size Of Your Movie
I would like to publish my flash movie so when people visit my site it opens to the exact demonions of my flash movie and nothing else. Is this possible?

How To Open A Popup Window Exact Size Of Random Gif From Within Flash Movie On Load?
Hi,

i have a flash movie, and on loading, or at a certain frame, is there some way i can have a random popup html window (which will have small gifs of random sizes) open up automatically the size of the gif.

They will be random images or quotes in gif format from a selection uploaded to a folder called quotes.

Many Thanks in advance from someone who will need it spelled out very clearly.

Cesca : )

p.s. i have a macromedia behaviour script that i found a while back, that creates a popup window of a chosen gif and resizes the window to the exact dimentions of teh gif. However this is for use within an html page, and doesnt consider the random factor....if i understood cding better, id probably be able to manipulate the code but i'm more of a doughnut...lol...any help or advise appreciated.

Publish Preview A Big Stage
I'm having trouble previewing my stage which is 800x1000 without the images being poor quality, is there a way to view big stages with scrollbars or something? plz help

How Do I Publish Only The Contents On The Stage
I am loading a mc into another mc. The mc that is being loaded contains some pictures that are larger than the stage size. I am moving these around to create a motion effect. When I go to publish this mc and load it into the other mc I only want to see the stage. I am having trouble figuring out how to show only the contents that are on the stage and not the overlap.

[F8] Symbol Size Bigger Than Max Stage Size - How To Edit/view?
Newbie Alert!

I am trying to edit a FLA file for a sliding timeline and the main background image with the details (years, images text) is 23960 px wide and I cannot scroll the main stage area all the way to the right to edit the contents. How can I do this please?

Thanks.

Broadsword1967

Change Stage Size (not Scale) Based On Browser Size?
Not sure this can be done. I've looked through LOTS of resizing tutorials, but they don't do exactly what I want, and I'm not sure it's possible.

Basically, I have a slideshow that loads from xml and fades in a variety of sizes of images in random positions. I'm trying to set it up so that the swf (which is in a div tag in an interface) will resize depending on the browser size and will use the NEW stage size to determine the x/y position of the images (without resizing them) and will skip any images that are too big for the stage size...

Any ideas if this is possible? Dynamically sizing and determining the "working area" of a swf based on the browser/div size?? Any tutorials out there?? I can figure out the code, I just need to know where to start...

THANKS!!!!

Publish Size
Hello,
i've got a stupid question

each time i import into my movie a gif, or jpeg or whatever, the size of the fla gets bigger, normal.. till then.

If i delete some gifs, and re-publish the size is the same!!
I mean if the swf was 100ko with 2 gifs inside, i delete 1 gif, and publish, the size is till 100ko!
Why??

Publish Size - Please Help
i have built a site in flash. it's quite a large fla file, (1.2mb). i published it with the html quality set to high, and the html file size was about 100k. then i published it with html quality set to best, and it was about 1000k. this when combined with an swf file size of 1mb is too large. so i tried to publish it again with the html quality set to high, but the html file size didn't go back to 100k. the quality of the html has reduced but not the file size!!! what can i do?

CS3 Publish Size
I have purchased CS3 and registered the product.
My EXE file use to be 4.44 mb but when I publish on the computer that the product is registered to the EXE is 12mb.
I have a laptop that I have installed the same CS3 on (but not registered), if I publish on it the File size is 4.44mb.
Can anybody identify the problem as I wish to keep the EXE to < 5mb.
Is the size increase prehaps because of attached code?

Streching A Text Box Area To Match The Exact Size Of The Text Inside.
Is there a way to strech the width of the text area (without distorting it) to match exactly the size of the dynamic text on it?

I'm sure a lot of stumbled upon this once...

Thanks in advance!

Using Flash To Open A New Browser Window - Exact Size Of Flash Movie?
Hi,

In Dreamweaver, I've previously used the 'open new browser window' behaviour from a link to display my Flash movies, and entered the .SWF filename as the URL to launch (this launches a browser window thatls exactly the size of the movie, no scrollbars, buttons etc). Can I do a similar thing with Flash's 'get URL' command, or does that only go to HTML/HTM files?

Cheers, Skratch

Can You Publish A Different Size Than Your Project?
I have some animations (version CS3 using AS3) that need to be resized. Rather than resizing the animations in the Flash file, is there a way to publish them with smaller dimensions? Or another suggestion on how to resize it without having to edit the animation itself?

Thank you!

Window Size Changes On Publish
Yeah, the whole question is pretty much above. I'm using a vCam and whenever I use the .swf in the folder the .fla's in, the window somehow resizes. However, when I use "test movie" from control, it seems to work fine. Anyone can help? I can post whatever info you need.

Flash Publish Size
Hey guys and gals,

Im not sure Im posting this in the right forum, but it feels like a random question..And I am a bit of a random sort of person...
Anywho Im one of those 1 in a million people who use a screen resolution of 1680 x 1050, I just love the pixelation of everyones site.. kind of entrancing hehe.. I go a bit crazed though when I visit those flash sites which are about the size of a javascript alert box for me and im looking for the OK and then I realise its someones flash site... and I know you're probably thinking "change your screen res fool". I say 'no' because my comp complains that its not default res..

Oh yeah thats right, my question:

Q. "what is a good size to publish a website?"

nb:for heavens sake, if someones going to abuse me and say "wrong forum" be nice about it please

Change Res/Size When Publish
Hey all,

I am new to web design and flash, and I have just created my new company logo and made a little flash movie. My problem is that I have my laptop screen resolution at 1920 x 1200 so when I look at the logo from a different computer with screen res of 800x600 or 1024x768 it is far too big.

I can fix the images to be the right res, but how do I change my swf file to publish at a smaller res?

Thanks in advance

Canvas Size Publish Problem.
I have a canvas of 1024*768.
When i designed and image at top left it fits nicely into canvas, likewise i have some semi circles attached to right side of screen.
However when i publish their is a white space on right and left margins of about 30-50 pixels any one have any ideas what is going on??

Pat

Publish Scale To Fit But Limit Max Size
I hate scroll bars and I love 'scale to fit' but don't want to have to provide high res images for people with 21" monitors. Is there a way to publish my page so that it scales to fit but at some point it doesn't scale up anymore. This way my images never get pixelated and I don't have to have a higher res images than what I think is necessary.

Any suggestions.

Thanks

Document Size/publish Settings
Hi everybody,

Because I didn't mind the stage size when I created a new file, now that I've got my work done ( a small banner ) I am stuck with a lot of white background around the actual content, and when I try to change the size in the settings the banner gets even more off centered...Isn't there any way to simply crop the area in excess? I'm sorry friends if this is a very dumb question but I've tried the manuals and couldn't find the answer.

Thank you

Monteiro

Image Size Different In Debug And Publish
My project is purely actionscript based movie. I am trying to display an image file (jpg) that is received from the movie server. The image file displays with corect zoom dimensions when in development environment but after the movie is published...the image displays full size (612x494). It gets more wierd...occassionally it works correctly (displays image with correct zoom) after several tries of publishing the movie.

Any ideas what might be the cause of this? Please help!!!

regards,
staylor

>>>>>>>>>More Info:>>>>>>>>>

the following code is executed to size up the image after image load is complete.

viewPort_width_ = 450;
viewPort_height_= 350;

var zoom : Number = 1;
var scale : Number = 100 * zoom;

image_.scrollRect = new Rectangle(0 / zoom,0 / zoom,viewPort_width_ / zoom,viewPort_height_ / zoom);
image_._xscale = image_._yscale = scale;

Image Size Different In Debug And In Publish
My project is purely actionscript based movie. I am trying to display an image file (jpg) that is received from the movie server. The image file displays with corect zoom dimensions when in development environment but after the movie is published...the image displays full size (612x494). It gets more wierd...occassionally it works correctly (displays image with correct zoom) after several tries of publishing the movie.

Any ideas what might be the cause of this? Please help!!!

regards,
staylor

>>>>>>>>>More Info:>>>>>>>>>

the following code is executed to size up the image after image load is complete.

viewPort_width_ = 450;
viewPort_height_= 350;

var zoom : Number = 1;
var scale : Number = 100 * zoom;

image_.scrollRect = new Rectangle(0 / zoom,0 / zoom,viewPort_width_ / zoom,viewPort_height_ / zoom);
image_._xscale = image_._yscale = scale;

Publish Flash File Size.
Hello!
FlashMX 2004
I haven't used flash for a while and have a jpeg sequence that is pretty heavy. When published the file size is around 2MB, messing with jpeg compression in the publish settings doesnt seem to reduce file size or affect jpeg quality.

I am sure there is a setting I am missing, all info most welcome, thanx in advance,

Chris

Stage Size Vs Published Size Question
Ok here is the dilema...

I have a 500w x 350h stage. For testing I have imported a picture the same size as the stage and placed a 1 pixel border around it.

When I preview the movie, the border shows up fine all around the imported picture but when I publish it to the web, I only see a border on the left and top edge. The right side and bottom are missing.

Here is the web version: Test Site

Here is the fla:

Stage Size And Dyn. Text Fiel Size
I'm verrrrrrry close to solve my problem...

I'm using a dynamic text box that will contain external text. The lenght of the text may be just a few words or can be as long as a small paragaph.

I've found a way to make my text box longer to fit the amount of text in it with this line of code:

mytextbox.autoSize = true; (This is great!!!!!!!!)

Now... The size of the flash i'm using have to be longer or shorter depending of the size of the dynamic text box...

How can I do that? The Flash need to folow the size of the text box... It will display my blog titles on an html page.

Is it possible?

Change Browser Size(same As The Stage Size)
Hi,

I have a .fla file of stage size 400*500, I have published it as .html
Now, is it possible to open it in a browser size same as the swf file?

Thanks...

100% Show All Publish But Keep Part Of Swf A Fixed Size
Hi,
Is it possible to have the movie HTML publish settings as 100%x100%, "show all" so that the movie fills the browser window BUT keep a movie clip inside the movie at a fixed size?
I assume you need to scale that movie in relation to the users resolution?
How can you do that?

In case I am thinking all wrong, here is what I want to achieve.
background image movie clip in my movie fills the browser window completely.
main content movie clip stays a fixed pixel size in the center of the window.

mark

Publish Screen Size In Flash Website
I create a website in flash professional 8, with screen size 710 x 610 pixels. When I view it in "test movie" it looks good.
But when I published from a host site it diaplay smaller.

What did I do wrong? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

dafu

Percentage Movie Size Publish Settings
I have my publish settings set to percentage 100% but people with browsers other than IE seem to only see a very small version - see this thread on codingforums.com -

http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=36002

any help?

monkey

Publish Problem + Loading Instances Of A Single Clip Randomly On The Stage
I've now a CPU friendly firework clip that needs to be randomly generated on the stage, using the following code;

dupMovie = function () {

for (i=0; i<100; i++) {

circle.duplicateMovieClip("circle"+i, i, {_x:Math.random()*300, _y:Math.random()*200, _alpha:Math.random()*50});
with (eval("circle"+i)) {

_xscale = _yscale=Math.random()*300;

}

}

};
dupMovie();

But I need to somehow throw an interval in there that calls the dupmovie function so that they appear on the stage with a duration of anywhere between 0.1 and 1 second between them. But I don't imagine that to be too tricky.

Although i'm at a roadblock, because the code that 'draws' the firework itself is Flash 5 code, and wont work with flash player 8;

i = 2;
while (Number(i)<150) {
duplicateMovieClip("isk1", "isk" add i, i);
setProperty("isk" add i, _rotation, random(360));
scalefactor = 40+Number(random(60));
setProperty("isk" add i, _xscale, scalefactor);
setProperty("isk" add i, _yscale, scalefactor);
i = Number(i)+1;
}

So I can't get to the random placement part of it without optimizing the above for Flash 8.

If anyone has any pointers it would be muchos appreciated.

Publish Settings Making Html Window Open To The Size Of The Swf, Help Me
hey guys i really have no idea how to do this
ive been messing with publish settings for like an hour now
i want my website to open in the size that the swf is, 800x600 but instead IE just opens it in a normal sized window, so then i get a load of "white space" around the outside of it

can anyone help me please

the site isnt up on the net yet, so i cant show you it.

also, can you dumb it down a little when you respond, im not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it cums to flash terms and such, so simplified words and terms would be help full!

cheers