flash problem

[theS70RM]

Hi, i've uploaded a project so you can see exactly my problem....

http://oini.com/dev/flash/index.html

the top bit of flash is the original, the second i have only altered the width parameters to be 100%. Please download the .fla file. THere are 2 layers, one with the animated bar on and one with the logo. I want only the background bar to stretch to the screen width and the text to remain the same scale! Ive tried using stage.scale = "noscale" in several ways but i am new to flash and struggling a bit.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[xNephilimx]

Hi, theS70RM.
The method for avoiding the movie to scale is Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
It must be written that same exact way, because actionscript is case-sensitive.

I don't know why would you do that, just make the movie's width wider. There's no way to scale some elements and others not.
At least not with pure actionscript. Maybe passing parameters with javascript or something, if you can get a little creative.
Are you trying to make the with of the movie change under different screen resolutions?
Just let the movie scale or not scale at all, or get creative with some other alternatives.

Kind regards,
The_Nephilim

Hi, i've uploaded a project so you can see exactly my problem....

http://oini.com/dev/flash/index.html

the top bit of flash is the original, the second i have only altered the width parameters to be 100%. Please download the .fla file. THere are 2 layers, one with the animated bar on and one with the logo. I want only the background bar to stretch to the screen width and the text to remain the same scale! Ive tried using stage.scale = "noscale" in several ways but i am new to flash and struggling a bit.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[theS70RM]

Hi, theS70RM.
The method for avoiding the movie to scale is Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
It must be written that same exact way, because actionscript is case-sensitive.

I don't know why would you do that, just make the movie's width wider. There's no way to scale some elements and others not.
At least not with pure actionscript. Maybe passing parameters with javascript or something, if you can get a little creative.
Are you trying to make the with of the movie change under different screen resolutions?
Just let the movie scale or not scale at all, or get creative with some other alternatives.

Kind regards,
The_Nephilim

ok, thanks. I was sure i had seen an example yesterday of exactly what i was trying to achieve but cant find it today! I will post it when i do though. Do you know can the canvas be dynamically resized? this may help me to get the exact effect i am looking for.

Cheers

[xNephilimx]

If you find it in pure actionscript post it in this thread, that would be awesome.
And no, the Stage (if that's what you're meaning) can't be resized dynamically with actionscript, the width (and height also) property is read-only, so you can't change it's value.
You can try to resize it with javascript, but I don't think it's going to help much, because when the html object is larger than the swf the movie, if it doesn't stretch, leaves a wide margin at the left side.
But there's a workaround. With a JavaScript/ActionScript integration using the ExternalInterface class.
With the ExternalInterface you can communicate with JavaScript and it's really easy. You can make a javascript function to return the window's width and redraw the embed flash, and in flash you can make a function that depending on the window's width you adjust some movieclips.

IMPORTANT: allowScriptAccess (in the embed element) must be set to "always" in order to communicate properly with JavaScript, or it won't work at all.

I'm thinking about writing an article about using the ExternalInterface, if I do it, I'll post it in the flash articles forum.

Best regards,
The_Nephilim

ok, thanks. I was sure i had seen an example yesterday of exactly what i was trying to achieve but cant find it today! I will post it when i do though. Do you know can the canvas be dynamically resized? this may help me to get the exact effect i am looking for.

Cheers