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Oct 23, 2000

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Making Flash fill the browser window

Q: I'm trying to make a Flash movie play back using the full Web browser window, regardless of how users size the window. This would seem to be possible with the FSCommand allowscale (to judge from the manual), but that command has no effect on browser playback, either alone or in combination with FSCaommand fullScreen.

Ralph L.

A: In the publishing options, set these options under HTML: Dimensions = Scale (and then horizontal and vertical = 100%. Set Scale to "Exact Fit"

That will cause the plug-in to scale to the window. However you'll still have a margin between the movie and browser window. In Internet Explorer you can remove that border with the leftmargin and topmargin tags set to 0 in the BODY tag of the document.

 

<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin=0 topmargin=0>
<!-- URL's used in the movie-->
<!-- text used in the movie-->

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/
swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0" ID=fullscreen WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=100%>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="fullscreen.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=scale VALUE=exactfit> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>
<EMBED src="fullscreen.swf" quality=high scale=exactfit bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=100% TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/
shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

 

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