Developing a flash website - Resolution
Hi.
I have a website layout of 1920x1080.
What could be my stage resolution (in the swf).
Do I need to set scaleMode?
Thanks.
Do you mean to fit to any browser window size? Then set the Flash object to 100% x 100% in HTML and choose one of the scale attribute for object/embed: showall, noborder, or exactfit. You'd set stage scaleMode to noScale only if you want to rearrange/resize elements depending on the browser size - you need the event listener and code to rearrange the elements in your AS.
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>>>> Hi,
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>>>> I have installed dreamweaver, and I've been
searching for the answer
>>>> to my following question for the past
week...I was hoping someone could
>>>> help me...anyway, I'm wondering how to
change the website resolution of
>>>> the site I have created...it's for my PSP,
which has a screen
>>>> resolution of 272X480. This website will be
for viewing on my psp, so
>>>> I don't care if it doesn't take up a whole
screen on a regular PC.
>>>> Anyway, could someone give me the
step-by-step on how to set a website
>>>> resolution on Dreamweaver,
>>>
>>> Your best bet is probably to simply build the
site so that it's no wider
>>> than the resolution of the device it's to be
used on. If you're using
>>> tables, you can contain everything on the page
in one 480 px wide table.
>>>
>>> There are a lot of other solutions to this, but
they're all harder than
>>> the above! :-)
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