Centering my swf file

I am looking for the html that will center my swf file and
keep it centered even when the window is resized by the viewer.
I've seen it done to almost every site I've been to, so I think it
should be relatively easy.

This may help you achieve the effect if you are using tables:
http://apptools.com/examples/tableheight.php
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>I am looking for the html that will center my swf file
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> every site I've been to, so I think it should be
relatively easy.
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When I have created a .flv file with a .html file from Indesign, and i open the .html file. Everything that i made works fine But! the
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why im using indesign) I dont think its something big! I want the Flash site to be in the Middle of the screen ) Can be allign with
the top of the browser but it has to be Centered!
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Put it in a div, set a class in the css and set the left and right margins to auto.
Like this:
.swfcontainer {
width: xx px; (this should match the width of your swf)
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
Bob

Swf file in different places on different browsers

Hi,
new to this web design, but I am getting there (very slowly)
I have a web page that is live www.chm-berkshire.com but it has an issue on the index page where the swf file is not being centered on each browser i use.
I can set it up perfectly on my ie web page where the file is centered under the spry bar, when look at my work PC and the swf file is over to the left, if i use firefox it is even further over to the left
Is there an easy way to make all browswers see the file in the center of the page?
any help greatfully recieved, (in as simple terms as possible, as I am hard of thinking:-) )

Just changing things from position:absolute to position:relative is thrashing, and will usually not help.
The solution is to do this -
Change this -
.oneColElsCtrHdr #container {
     width: 46em;
     margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
     border: 1px solid #000000;
     text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
     background-color: #FFFFFF;
     background-position: center;
to this -
.oneColElsCtrHdr #container {
     width: 46em;
     margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
     border: 1px solid #000000;
     text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
     background-color: #FFFFFF;
     background-position: center;
        position:relative;
What this change will do is to change the reference point for all absolutely positioned elements on the page from the upper, left-hand corner of the browser viewport (which is the default reference for AP elements when there is no positioned ancestor), to the location of the centering element div#container. Now, when that element centers, it will carry all the AP elements along with it. You will have to reposition each AP element on the page to accommodate this change, but once positioned properly in DW, they will stay in that correct relative location.
Now - to see what a mess you have made by using AP for all your content - just browse to this page and increase the text size a few ticks in the browser. Your simple layout goes south in a hurry....
It's much better to use sound practice methods in building your pages - http://www.apptools.com/pagelayout101.php will show you the way.

Re-positioning a swf file in dreamweaver?

Hi,
I am Graphic designer currently learning the ropes of webdesign..so this may be a noobish question as i have NO IDEA when it comes to html code...
I created a design in photoshop and saved my pages, images slices etc in html and opened it in dreamweaver.
My Problem is... i have a "swf flash slide show file" which i want to re-position roughly in the center of the html page, which for the life of me i cannot do!
I have tried aligning it center etc...but the swf file only seems to move around the edges of my html page.
Is it possible for the swf to be centered within my html page.
Here is the Dreamweaver code I have currently :
<html>
<head>
<title>Natina_Web_12</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: #1b1b1b;
</style>
<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body leftmargin="50" topmargin="50" marginwidth="5" marginheight="5">
<div align="center">
<object id="FlashID" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="800" height="375">
    <param name="movie" value="slide.swf">
    <param name="quality" value="high">
    <param name="wmode" value="opaque">
    <param name="swfversion" value="8.0.35.0">
    
    <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf">
    
    
    <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="slide.swf" width="800" height="375">
      
      <param name="quality" value="high">
      <param name="wmode" value="opaque">
      <param name="swfversion" value="8.0.35.0">
      <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf">
      
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        <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>
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</object>
<img src="images/Collections.jpg" alt="" width="1600" height="1100" align="middle"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
swfobject.registerObject("FlashID");
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</html>
Any HELP would be greatly appreciated
THANKS

Complete code below, copy and paste into new Dreamweaver document, and save to your site folder. One point I can't help thinking that at 1600px wide your main image is too wide, most will have to scroll right to see the whole page. I would limited the width to around 980px.
<!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">
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   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <style type="text/css">
    body {
background-color: #1b1b1b;
#main_image {
background-image: url(images/Collections.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
width: 1600px;
height: 1100px;
#flashWrapper {
width: 800px;
margin: 0 auto;
height: 375px;
margin: 80px 0px 0px 400px; /* top,right,bottom,left */
    </style>
    <script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    </head>
    <body leftmargin="50" topmargin="50" marginwidth="5" marginheight="5">
    <div id="main_image">
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      <object id="FlashID" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="800" height="375">
        <param name="movie" value="slide.swf">
        <param name="quality" value="high">
        <param name="wmode" value="opaque">
        <param name="swfversion" value="8.0.35.0">
        
        <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf">
        
        
        <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="slide.swf" width="800" height="375">
          
          <param name="quality" value="high">
          <param name="wmode" value="opaque">
          <param name="swfversion" value="8.0.35.0">
          <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf">
          
          <div>
            <h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
            <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.g if" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>
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        </object>
        
      </object>
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    </div>
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Can a swf file begin executing code before loading completely?

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time. The preloader centers itself by retrieving the stage
dimensions and calculating the coordinates it needs.
This works everytime in Flash preview, but once I put it
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The stage width and height it seems, are considered = 0 when this
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The only reason I can determine for this error is that when
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gets wrong stage dimensions. I have exported the swf file to have
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This idea offers some interesting possibilities. (Thank you.)
I'll have play with it to see if I can make it meet our needs.
I'm worried that the caption would be forced inside of the
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Snapshot
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Horizontally centering flash .swf" and disallowing horizontal scroll??

Is it possible to center a flash .swf file on a website, and then disable horizontal scrolling?
I made my website in Flash Catalyst, and I made the width 1700px and the height 1200px. I made the width large because I wanted it to look good in the largest screen resolutions, but my biggest problem now that I've finished making the website is putting it up. Simply embedding it makes it scroll horizontally all the way to 1700px, which isn't good for those with small browsers.
Originally, I was planning on making the flash file the background in CSS (using body {background: url(FILE.swf) no-repeat #000 top center}) but then I found out you can't put .swf's as backgrounds.
Basically, I want to know if it's possible to center the .swf horizontally, and then disallow horizontal scrolling. I want to keep vertical scrolling,
Any help appreciated!

Is it possible to center a flash .swf file on a website, and then disable horizontal scrolling?
Yes, but it introduces other problems. With scrolling disabled, you might not be able to see all the page. I DO NOT recommend what you are trying to do. Flash scaling would most likely give you better results.
Background images if intended to cover a large area are typically very small images which are repeated to create a pattern. Using one large image will still never cover all the possible screen resolutions or page sizes... for example larger than 1700 or taller than 1200 pixels.
Centering requires a set dimension, like 1700 so auto set margins would center it, but it still may not cover 100% as using a width of 100% would.
That being said, turn off horizontal scroll and leave vert on with:
overflow-y: auto !important;
overflow-x: hidden !important
then you'll need to use z-indexing to lay anything else over the top of you background .swf
Here a sample page that should get you going... dimensions are smaller so you can see how it works... the principle is the same.
<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>No Scroll</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main_container">
<div id="flash">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="800" height="600" id="overflow" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="overflow.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffff00" /><embed src="overflow.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffff00" width="800" height="600" name="overflow" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</div>
<div id="content">
<p align="center">This is the center</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Best of luck!
Adninjastrator

[HELP] Centering External SWF

I've read dozens of post on this forum as to how to do this, But I cannot get my own to work. I am loading an external swf file into an empty movieclip. I would like the external swf to be centered initially, and after page resize. Can someone PLZ assist me with this!!????
import flash.ui.Mouse;
import flash.events.Event;
import caurina.transitions.Tweener;
import gs.TweenLite;
import gs.*;
import gs.easing.*;
import net.stevensacks.preloaders.CircleSlicePreloader; //Steven Sacks preloader
var preloader:CircleSlicePreloader = new CircleSlicePreloader(); //Steven Sacks preloader
//////////////////// STAGE ALIGN ALL MC /////////////////////
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, onResize);
function onResize (evt:Event = null) {
downbg_mc.x = 0;
downbg_mc.y = stage.stageHeight;
downbg_mc.width = stage.stageWidth;
copyright_mc.x = stage.stageWidth/2;
copyright_mc.y = stage.stageHeight - downbg_mc.height/2 + copyright_mc.height/2;
preloader.x = stage.stageWidth * 0.5;
preloader.y = stage.stageHeight * 0.5;
loaderMC.x = (stage.stageWidth - loaderMC.width) * 0.5;
loaderMC.y = (stage.stageHeight - loaderMC.height) * 0.5;
backgroundMC.x = 0;
backgroundMC.y = 0;
backgroundMC.width = stage.stageWidth;
backgroundMC.height = stage.stageHeight;
btn1_mc.y = btn2_mc.y = btn3_mc.y = btn4_mc.y = 7;
} // END onResize
onResize(new Event(Event.RESIZE));
///////////////// END stage align ////////////////////
addChild(loaderMC);
function onComplete(event:Event):void {
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        loaderMC.x = (stage.stageWidth - loaderMC.content.width) * 0.5;
            loaderMC.y = (stage.stageHeight - loaderMC.content.height) * 0.5;
   addChild(downbg_mc);
   addChild(copyright_mc);
   addChild(btn1_mc);
   addChild(btn2_mc);
   addChild(btn3_mc);
   addChild(btn4_mc);
   addChild(scroller);
   addChild(backgroundMC);
} // END onComplete

what's loaderMC? and TweenLite isn't going to do anything with those oncompleteparams because there's no oncomplete function.

Continued/ linking .swf file to Dreamweaver

Hi ,
All I need is to link my swf file to a link in my HTML page,
the swf file has its own control buttons created in Captivate that
I need them to be shown in the swf file ratherthan new ones! and I
need all this to be shown as a smaller window in the middle of the
screen where the user can maximise and minimise the way he wants?
so
I have linked my link to HTML ( which is called Harmony.htm)
file atht has the published .swf file in it but I have these
problems:-
1- Once I click on the link the new HTML page is opened but
with this warning:
" Adobe Flash player has stopped a potentially unsafe
operation, the following local application on your computer or
network :
C:\..........\ Harmony_skin.swf is trying to communicate
withthis internet enabled location
c:\.......\Harmony.htm
to let this press ok ..."
I don't want this warning to appear for my users? how to get
rid of it ? or it is normal to have it on the internet I don't
know?
2- the Harmony_skin.swf is the actual movie I have implement
in Captivate which has the control buttons and the colsed
captioning in the middle bottom of the window which I want them to
appear, but when I publish it with the html file (Harmony.html)
they don't appear and for other swf files they appear slightly how
to make them appear? does thim mean I have to control the position
of the swf file in the HTML file ? how to do that?
3- I have seen this link sent to me by steve
http://javascript.about.com/library/blpopup10.htm
But I was not able to understand very well o to do that, I
mean how to control the position of the html window as I am very
new to HTMl and I am not very well practised can you help me in
that pleas?
Attached is my code and when you see the comment  it is the link I am talking about.
Appreciate your help

So you want your custom HTML page to open the Captivate movie
in a new window that's centered with the normal browser buttons?
If so, the "centered" part is a bit tricky. There's no way to
determine the exact height of the screen since the browser does not
know how the user's Windows Taskbar is displaying (hidden, one row
high, two rows high, etc). I always take an arbitrary 64 pixels off
the height just in case it's set to 2 rows high.
A suggestion would be to start with the example shown at
bottom, using the following as a reference for what each parameter
in the window.open() method does:
window.open()
Reference at MSDN
Also, you should NOT use spaces in any of your file and
folder names... that can be a problem in some cases.
Cheers,
John

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Hello-
For some reason I can't get my swf file to be centered when I preview in my browsers. When I open the SWF file by istelf, it fills the screen (which is what I would like). However, when I insert it in Dreamweaver and open a browser, it remains a constant size and is on the left of the screen. In the properties panel I've changed the align to middle and absolute middle and it seems to have no affect. Any thoughts?

You'll need to give your division a width, too. And possibly text-align: center for older browser.
CSS:
#SWF {
     width: 700px;
     margin: 0 auto; /**centers div**/
     text-align: center;
HTML:
<div id="SWF">


</div>
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
www.alt-web.com/
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Sorry, I am slow to understand loll
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Other issue... my "shop" button. It seems to work fine, but if I test it out a couple of times, then it will give me an error message that it can't access the external link but no wonder it can't, for some reason it adds an http:http:// twice in the browser. In my case, being http:http://www.etsy.com/shop/natdzign. Huh?? Oh and how can I actually center it so it keeps it centered no matter the size of your monitor? I just realized my website isn't centered. Damn!!!
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HI all hope your all good. Bit of a toughy for u to get your
heads round. (its a little long but its a tester for u real
webmasters)
i.explorer. active x controls - swf files load but the i.e
browser still says 1 item remaining. cause <object> tags. My
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works fine on all browsers except i.e. due to the fact it can't
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SO
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browser always centres the swf and no matter how big the browser is
made displays all the flash. for example your browser is 1024 x 768
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detail which will fill the remaing browser space, giving the site
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"<script type="text/javascript" src="
http://www.uyrproduction.com/ieupdate.js"></script>"
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strength)
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<script type="text/javascript">
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who can solve this "100%", "100%", "6", "#000000");
so.addParam("quality", "high");
so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>
it only displays the 430 x 430 flash stage and not all the
background info as mentioned before. I've put the setting to the
actual pixel size i.e.
var so = new SWFObject("mysite:-).swf", "A pint to the man
who can solve this "1482", "1482", "6", "#000000");
alas, this the right size but not centered and has scoll
bars, boo. tried all sort of java script to sort it out but to no
luck.
the person who can help will be in my good books for ever
more.
Cheers
Bob

> Please check the root site
> URL." This happens whenever I click TEST for the site
root URL in the site
> preferences under Contribute.
and what is entered for the site root url, and is that
correct?
It should be the url to the site, such as
http://www.example.com/
or
http://www.example.com/mysiteisinasubfolder/
If you let contribute or dw "guess" at this, it can often get
it wrong,
because it will go with the combination of the ftp address
and the host
directory entry. So it will try something like
http://
nameofyourhostingbox.yourhost.com/public_html/
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

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sound options are set to "start" or "event", there is no problem,
it works well. But it doesn't work if I set to "stream". My
original file is an mp3. Is there something special avout it? Help
tutorials didn't help me so far...

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Firefox ( 3.6.28) runs them fine.
And also IE 8 and/or Firefox under Windows 7 handles them perfectly.
Has anyone any idea what can cause this and how to resolve this?
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The Netherlands

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// handle error here
trace(e);
My question is: How do I apply the code to each individual small thumbnail button to load a bigger image into the SWF loader above? Do I have to add something to XML file or this way it will never work with jpg images? Can url in XML file set the source var (//setting the sourceVar), since they are all individual and then somehow apply the making SWL loader to load part (//making the SWFLoader load) as a standard somewhere in the AS3 code?

O.K. Here is my COMPLETE function.
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, LoadXML);
function LoadXML(e:Event):void {
    trace("xml load complete");
    xmlData = new XML(e.target.data);
    //trace(xmlData.image); //we'll see each image xml element listed in the output panel with this xmlList
    buildScroller(xmlData.image); //rather than trace the xmlList, we send it to our buildScroller function
//build scroller from xml
function buildScroller(imageList:XMLList):void{
    trace("build Scroller");
    //var scroller_x:int=0;
    for (var item:uint = 0; item<imageList.length();item++) {
        var thisOne:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
        //thisOne.img_width=imageList[item].attribute("width");
        //outline
        var blackBox:Sprite = new Sprite();
        blackBox.graphics.beginFill(0xFFFFFF);
        blackBox.graphics.drawRect(-1, -1, 86, 128);//-1,-1 places rectangle 1px left and up.86, 128 draws rectangle 1px wider on all sides of placed image dimenstions of 84x126
        thisOne.addChild(blackBox);
        //scroller_x += thisOne.img_width + 20;
        //var currentX = currentImageWidth+spaceBetween;//modified line to adjust variable thumb widths
        thisOne.x = (84 + padding) *item;//84 is the width of the loaded images and 15 (which was before paddign var) is the padding
        //thisOne.x = scroller_x;//modified line to adjust variable thumb widths
        thisOne.itemNum = item;
        thisOne.title = imageList[item].attribute("title");
        thisOne.link = imageList[item].attribute("url");
        thisOne.src = imageList[item].attribute("src");
        thisOne.alpha = 0;//makes all thumb images at alpha=0 before they are fully loaded
        //trace(thisOne.itemNum, thisOne.title, thisOne.link, thisOne.src);
        //Loading and Adding the Images
        //image container
        var thisThumb:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
        //add image
        var ldr:Loader = new Loader();
        //var url:String = imageList[item].attribute("src");
        var urlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(thisOne.src);
        trace("loading thumbnail "+item+" into Scroller: " + thisOne.src);//url
        ldr.load(urlReq);
        //assign event listeners for Loader
        ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,completeHandler);//tells us when the loading is complete
        ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, errorHandler);//tells us if there are any typo errors when the loading is complete
        thisThumb.addChild(ldr);
        thisOne.addChild(thisThumb);
        //create listeners for this thumb
        thisOne.buttonMode = true;//makes boxes act as buttons
        thisOne.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickScrollerItem);//makes boxes act as buttons
        thisOne.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, overScrollerItem);//traces the title when the mouse is over the bounding box in the Output Panel
        thisOne.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, outScrollerItem);//traces the title when the mouse is out the bounding box in the Output Panel
        //add item
        scroller.addChild(thisOne);
But I am not sure if I expressed myself clearly. All what you have indicated happens. Images are being loaded and url strings are working. I can not figure out how to tweek the code so instead of url specified in xml file I can load swf image into the SWF loader on the same screen?

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