Best Method for Strechable .swf file in horizontal but not vertical?

What is the best method to create an easy to use flash file
that will allow horizontal scaling with a fixed vertical size?
This will be for a blog header in a variable width design at
Make Light Real.com
I have tried the basic stage properties and found
StageScaleMode.NO_BORDER to be an ok solution, but I'm not
sure what will happen when I begin to drop active clips in on the
stage. Will the stage operate from a fixed point or how will the
clips orient to the stage as it expands?
My understanding of actionscript is just enough to hack
pieces of what I need together: but if you could enlighten me with
the most basic understanding of which method would work best for me
I'd apprecate it. I also have this method to alter the background
(as a clip):
quote:
Stage.addListener(ecout);
// function which replaces all the elements with the new
values
slide = function () {
photo_mc._x = 0;
photo_mc._y = 0;
photo_mc._width = Stage.width;
photo_mc._height = Stage.width/rapp;
if (photo_mc._height<Stage.height) {
photo_mc._height = Stage.height;
photo_mc._width = Stage.height*rapp;
slide()
Should I just alter the variables there to lock the stage
height?
Thanks for your time in answering.

When you export your movie you can select the scaling options
for width and height.
Try selecting one but not the other.
Cheers,
Gorka
http://www.AquiGorka.com/blog

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