Movie Clip / Browser Window Resize?

Hello Everyone,
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way that you could make a
single movie clip in your .swf react to the current width of the
browser window, when its loaded.
I would like to use this specific piece of code to
dynamically center an "enter" button on a website.
Thank you in advance

If you set the properties of your .swf to 100% width and
height your movie will automatically fill the browser regardless of
resolution. Note if your using a colored background for your web
page you will see white striping down each side of your movie. just
set the param for bgcolor to what ever you need it to be
Kevin

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Browser window resize event

Newbie question - sorry. How do I capture the browser window
resize event?
I've tried variations on this code:-
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import flash.events.Event;
function mylisten():void { trace('mylisten');
this.stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE,resizefn);
function resizefn():void {
trace('resize!');
]]>
</mx:Script>

Hi brutfood,
you can add a handler to the resize event of the application
as an attribute of the Application tag.
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="absolute" resize="resizeHandler()">
Then add the handler ("t" is TextArea):
private function resizeHandler():void {
t.text = stage.width + " - " + stage.height;
t.text += "\n" + stage.stageWidth + " - " +
stage.stageHeight;
Note the difference between the width/height and
stageWidth/stageHeight properties: the first couple returns the
actual stage dimension while the second returns the visible area of
the stage.
regards,
Christophe

Movie clip will not "resize"

Hello Forum,
I am baffled by something i "created". I have a swf file,
that has 3 containers (aka movieclips).
my first container (cleverly named "container") gets an
attached movie clip beginning in frame 1 of the root timeline.
I also have a clip on my stage (called "NavigationPane").
This is a movie clip as well. This is dragged to the stage at the
design mode.
My clip NavigationPane has an instance name
("navigaionpane"). This also has a border that gets sized
dynamically at run time.
My stage size is 640x525, and my resize for the
navigationpane is 640x480. so far so good. If I run the swf file
from flash player all works fine (or so it seems).
My challenge is when I embed the swf file in an html page,
and set the swf file to a smaller size (512x420 for the "stage"),
the clip plays ok and at my desired size. I am using code
like this to "resize" the swf object:
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
<noscript>
<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="512" height="420" ID="Captivate1">
<param name="movie" value="Module1-4Buttons.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="loop" value="0">
<embed src="Module1-4Buttons.swf" width="512"
height="420" loop="0" quality="high" pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" menu="false"></embed>
</object>
when the clip starts to play the size show as 512x420 (swf
stage size is 640x525).
I have code (actionscript) set at about 1/2 way thru clip to
resize the nav pane to 640x480. when the code runs to resize the
nav pane - the html sizing seems to be bypassed, and I get a piece
of the stage in my 512x420 "window" in my html file.
It seems that the resize overrides the html code. should I
bite the bullet and just resize everything for my 512x420 size?
thanks,
eholz1

ok I seem to have made some progress, but also stepped back
at the same time. I exported it as flv in premiere 2.0, and
imported to flash 8 as embedded video. bottom line quickly, it now
plays two times and stops, so thats better. :) however all of my
control buttons stopped working. I did instantiate the flv as
-video-, but the scripts shown above no longer work. It also
autoplays at load, so in publish settings I told it not to, but
without the buttons working I cannot get it to play at all. Chuckle
chuckle. So if autoplya, it plays twice, but my buttons do not work
at all, if no autoplay, it can do nothing as the buttons do not
work.
I am surprised the buttons do not work as the instance is
still video and I did not change anything. Ah so much I do not
know. Can you nudge me along a little further. I sure appreciate
yours and anybodys help as I try to get out of kindergarten.

How to center flash movie in browser window

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A bit of background:
I was able to achieve this using <center></center> tags a few years ago. But I have since upgraded to CS5 and I understand that this old method is now obsolete.
I have found a few threads/forums that address this, but I know nothing about HTML and these threads don't help me because they assume you have more knowledge than I possess. When opening up the index.html file in Dreamweaver I can't find anything that looks vaguely familiar to what is being discussed. I have found some code samples using <div></div> tags but have no idea where to place it.
So I will need it explained to me in a step by step fashion, including which file I need to fix and what program I should use. Code samples will be very welcome if you can tell me exactly where it goes.
Thanks in advance...

Just realized that there is no scrolling functionality with the .swf generated from the new CS5. Can anyone help out by providing revised code for centering and scrolling?
I found something elsewhere in the forums that worked for both centering and scrolling that worked fine yesterday, but upon visiting my site today for testing, it did not allow the scrolling, and centering did not work in Firefox. Tested both Safari and Firefox on 2 Macs running Snow Leopard.
Again, much appreciated - nice to visit forums where people are interested in helping instead of screaming at each other. Will visit the Illustrator or Indesign forum to see if I can help out someone there...

Refreshing problem on browser window resizing

Hi
I know this problem is quite common and a lot of people tried to solve this. So meybe someone could give me some info how to make an applet to be properly shown after browser resizing? Now it looks awfull, the part with buttons and textfields seems to be repainted correctly but sometimes is covered by Image object that is supposed to be in one place - but seems to travel around the page during resizing and moving browser window from one side of the screen to the another.
Can anybody help me, please?
ania

The way I personally do this is to set the entire page into one large Table, with a width of 100%.
If you are already using tables within your code, then you need to be sure you don't have any large width= values set. Also, if your site has fancy graphics, you need to find somewhere on the page to allow some 'stretching' of those graphics.
Here's a quick example of a page that will automatically adjust based on screen size (remember, just because they are viewing at 1280 x 1024 resolution doesn't automatically mean that their browser is maximized.. it could be reduced/resized on their screen to smaller dimensions - this code will fix that)
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="black"><font color="white"><b>This could be a navigation area<Br>Just putting it here for demonstration</b></font></td>
<td width="100%" bgcolor="silver"><font color="black"><b>This could be the main area, and since it has a width of 100% it will stretch horizontally based on how much actual screen space is available on the viewers browser window</b></font></td>
<td align="right"><font color="navy">This is a right column, and since it is set to 'align=right' it will allow the center column to strech back and forth</font></td></tr></table>
By experimenting with setting the width= attribute on different columns, you can get different results. Just remember to set the main table width at 100%, and be sure t have at least one TD that has a width of 100% and you should be good to go
WHeis

Rolling window moves when browser window changes size??

I have added a rolling window into my page and it is in the
correct position when I click to preview, but when the browser
window moves (when I click on my Favourites window panel for
example) the rolling window moves along and out of its position.
Is there anyway to stop this?
Cheers,
Zoe

Change this -
</head>
to this -
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
change this -
<body ...>
to this -
<body ...>
<div id="wrapper">
and this -
</body>
to this -
</div>
</body>
and see if that helps.
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> I have added a rolling window into my page and it is in
the correct
> position
> when I click to preview, but when the browser window
moves (when I click
> on my
> Favourites window panel for example) the rolling window
moves along and
> out of
> its position.
>
> Is there anyway to stop this?
>
> Cheers,
> Zoe
>

Browser window resize on entering website

Hi. I'm quite new to DW so apologies if this is simple to do.
I've developed a website in flash, kind of a console 900x500 pixels
and housed it in an html page using dreamweaver. i'm trying to set
it up so the browser window will resize to 900x500 when loading the
page. I know how to do this in DW for a popup window but is there
some javascript that will do this automatically as the main page
loads? I've tried a few scripts i found on google but its not
working. I'm testing in firefox and safari and am looking for a
script or method that would also work in IE. The console doesn't
look good on a large background so any help would be appreciated,
Thanks guys, Dren.

Essentially it can't be done. Modern browsers prevent it.
Usability data
strongly suggests visitors hate it. Controlling the visitor's
browser size
is considered arrogant. I suggest you rethink your design
strategy as this
is probably a losing battle on many fronts.
Walt
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> Hi. I'm quite new to DW so apologies if this is simple
to do. I've
> developed
> a website in flash, kind of a console 900x500 pixels and
housed it in an
> html
> page using dreamweaver. i'm trying to set it up so the
browser window
> will
> resize to 900x500 when loading the page. I know how to
do this in DW for
> a
> popup window but is there some javascript that will do
this automatically
> as
> the main page loads? I've tried a few scripts i found on
google but its
> not
> working. I'm testing in firefox and safari and am
looking for a script or
> method that would also work in IE. The console doesn't
look good on a
> large
> background so any help would be appreciated, Thanks
guys, Dren.
>

Background Image Fixed-Layers Above Move in Browser Window

Hi,
I created a table, single column and row. I inserted an image
(background graphics), then created Layers for my text and
navigation buttons. See layout online here:
http://www.tarbeatydesign.com/SG4/index.html
Why do the layers float around when the browser window
changes sizes? Is there a fix.
I'm using DW MX 2004 - v7.0.1
Thanks, Tar

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>> Walt
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>>> Because that's how Layers
(position:absolute) work. They are
>>>>>> positioned absolutely relative to
the position of their containing
>>>>>> element (usually <body>).
>>>>>
>>>>> That's confusing. They are positioned
offset from the position of
>>>>> their closest positioned ancestor. If
there is no positioned
>>>>> ancestor, then the body tag is used,
hence, upper, left-hand corner of
>>>>> the page.
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>> ==================
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Walt F. Schaefer"
<[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>>>
news:[email protected]...
>>>>>>> Why do the layers float around
when the browser window changes
>>>>>>> sizes?
>>>>>> Because that's how Layers
(position:absolute) work. They are
>>>>>> positioned absolutely relative to
the position of their containing
>>>>>> element (usually <body>).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Is there a fix.
>>>>>> Stop using Layers. They are not a
good option for general page layout
>>>>>> purposes. They should be used
sparingly in special situations and
>>>>>> only if you fully understand how
they will interact with the rest of
>>>>>> your page. You need to learn and
understand CSS (+ HTML) if you want
>>>>>> to build anything but the simplest
of sites.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Walt
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "tarbeaty"
<[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>>>>
news:[email protected]...
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> I created a table, single column
and row. I inserted an image
>>>>>>> (background
>>>>>>> graphics), then created Layers
for my text and navigation buttons.
>>>>>>> See layout
>>>>>>> online here:
http://www.tarbeatydesign.com/SG4/index.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why do the layers float around
when the browser window changes
>>>>>>> sizes? Is there
>>>>>>> a fix.
>>>>>>> I'm using DW MX 2004 - v7.0.1
>>>>>>> Thanks, Tar
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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Open browser window resizing problem

I want to have a small browser window open on top of my main
browser page. The open browser window behavior sizing is not
working. The window remains in the default size. So I added this
java script to the page I want to be smaller
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript1.2">
self.resizeTo(400,600);
</SCRIPT>
This did make the window size small, but when returning to
the main browser window that window is now the same small size as
the smaller window.
Now what.
thanks, cyndee

Add a ... ;return false ... to the end of the
MM_openBrWindow() event
call as in the example below... Make sure you place a
semicolon between the
end of the event call and the return false.
<span class="link"><a
href="Gourd%20Purchasing%20Policies.html"
onClick="MM_openBrWindow('Gourd%20Purchasing%20Policies.html','gourdpurchasingpo
licies','width=560,height=770');return false">Purchasing
Policies</a></span><br>
Regards,
..Trent Pastrana
www.fourlevel.com
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> Here is how dreamweaver wrote the open browser code.
>
> <span class="link"><a
href="Gourd%20Purchasing%20Policies.html"
>
onClick="MM_openBrWindow('Gourd%20Purchasing%20Policies.html','gourdpurchasingpo
> licies','width=560,height=770')">Purchasing
Policies</a></span><br>
>
> thanks
>

Fluxbox browser window resize

When I go to a site that opens an image in a new window, then resizes that window to fit the image, fluxbox is resizing the window so the title bar is outside of the workspace. This means I can not close, move, maximize or minimize the window without first holding down the Alt key and dragging it down some.
Anyone know how to keep Fluxbox from resizing a window outside of the actual workspace?
If it matters, this behaviour is not happening in Gnome.

dp wrote:
this is not a fluxbox problem, but a bad webmaster :-)
i would suggest you to use a browser that can override javascript from resizing windows larger than the screen (i use konqueror and all new windows open in new tags and are not allowed to resize the master window)
EDIT: ion does not allow windows to be bigger than the screen
Well this problem does not happen with Mozilla in either GNOME or KDE, but does happen with Mozilla in Fluxbox. This would suggest to me that Fluxbox is handling the popup differently than other window managers.
I looked at the HTML and it seems to me that the webmaster is simply telling the browser to open a new window and passing along a size with no window placement information. Mozilla is then opening up the window with the titlebar off the screen. I would say it is Mozilla's problem except Fluxbox is the only window manager I have that is exhibiting the problem.
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Help!!!
I was using log and transfer to import videos. My daughter came along and clicked somewhere in the log and transfer window. Now all I see is the right handside pane of a particular clip. I lost the left hand side where I see the list of clips from my media. How do I get it back?
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!http://www.spotsbeforeyoureyes.com/L%26TPreWindow2.jpg!
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I've having a problem with not being able to move the browser window around on my desktop. My last alternative is to uninstall Firefox and try a reinstall, but I'm afraid I'll loose all of my bookmarks. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks--

Vista Home Premium / Service Pack 2
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q 9400 @ 2.66GHz
3 GB Ram
32-bit OS

Did you check what I would consider the first place to look:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions
If the site is still down (at least 12 hours) when you read this try [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A//kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions Google's cache]
Link or url would make it easier to see which page you tried rather than "your online solution for ...".
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs ([http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A//kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs cached version])
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes ([http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A//kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes cached version])
* [https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox%20hangs#os=mac&browser=fx4 Firefox hangs | Troubleshooting | Firefox Help]

Load movie clip cannot be resized problem

Hello,
Can anyone please take a look at my script,
mybutton = this.createEmptyMovieClip("mc" + i, this.getNextHighestDepth());
    var loadTarget:MovieClip = mybutton.createEmptyMovieClip("loadTarget",0);
    var aFlag:String = arrayFlag[i].split("swf").join("jpg");
    loadTarget.loadMovie(aFlag);
    mybutton._x = 5 + distance;
    mybutton._y = 6 + ydistance;
Now this script is within a for loop, it works fine the 'aFlag' would sit next to each other, but I want to resize (either aFlag/mybutton) a little bit, like this :
mybutton = this.createEmptyMovieClip("mc" + i, this.getNextHighestDepth());
    var loadTarget:MovieClip = mybutton.createEmptyMovieClip("loadTarget",0);
    var aFlag:String = arrayFlag[i].split("swf").join("jpg");
    loadTarget.loadMovie(aFlag);
    mybutton._x = 5 + distance;
    mybutton._y = 6 + ydistance;
     mybutton._width =100;
     mybutton._height = 100;
then all the loaded images previously appeared would be all gone, why? I don't understand, setting _width/height is rather standard?
help please

The problem might be related to trying to set the size of an empty object... you cannot do that. I don't know why that would eliminate the images, but it might be some wierd side effect. You need to wait until the image file has loaded before trying to set the size of the object that contains it.
See if you can work out using the MovieClipLoader class instead so that you can listen for completion of the loading and then resize to your liking.

I cannot move, resize, minimize, or close the browser window despite everything inside the window still working.

I don't know what details are needed so I'll just rattle off anything that I can think of.
I am running an Asus laptop with windows 7. I have never had an issue with firefox in the past (beyond the usual freezing and some obvious issues with pop up ads that are par for the course with firefox since adblocker never does what it says.... not really. Lets be honest.) I am using Avast for my virus protection and it is also up to date.
My issue started about an hour ago when firefox stopped responding. The video I had playing kept going but I could not interact with anything. Assuming the program froze for the billionth time that week I rebooted it. This has always solved freezing issues in the past. Now, however, firefox is doing something new.
I can access the menus and almost everything on the window itself except for the minimize/maximize/close buttons, I cannot move the window at all, and I cannot manually resize it. I have also noticed that although videos will play, I can only click on their buttons if there is another smaller window overtop of firefox. The video controls will only appear that way and when I click them firefox naturally comes to the front and the video responds with the button I used but the buttons are gone again and I cannot resume playing without the smaller window back in front to make the buttons show again.
It's as if half of firefox is frozen while the other half is still running somehow.
I have no themes that could be causing this. Literally none. I only use firefox for the things that can no longer be opened in Opera so I have no need for any theme beyond default. The only addons I installed on purpose were adblockers (lord knows why. they don't DO anything.) though several other random things seem to have been installed over time to aid in one thing or another. Various plugins and players and versions of java, that sort of thing. But I have everything (and i mean EVERYTHING) in the addon menu disabled.
I have tried booting it up in safe mode (the program, not windows) and the problem is still there except now it won't show the menu bar at all unless I press the alt key first and even then it wont let me actually click on anything in the menu bar. When I try the whole bar vanishes. I had to close firefox with the task manager.
Rebooting will fix the issue for about 15 seconds before it all comes back.
Any attempts at updating have failed as it says I am already up to date on everything so I don't know what its issue is.
It's not an urgent issue right now as most of what i need to do can be done on the half screen window I am using, but some of my sites have buttons that literally vanish in anything but full screen and I imagine that this will be a much greater annoyance within a few days.

After following all the instructions given, I poked around safe websites as suggested. I am not sure why this step was needed, as websites functioned rather normally before I came here but I did it anyways and found that the websites still work the same as they did. I can still do everything I used to be able to do. I see no change in the function of the websites.
However, I still cannot resize, close, or move the browser window. I don't know if Netflix is a safe site or not (too many conflicting opinions on that one from the masses) so I don't know if the issue with the vanishing buttons is still there, but all the issues I had with the browser window itself is still there.
Even in safe mode the browsers three window control buttons on the top right refuse to let me use them and the window itself will refuse to be moved around.

Cannot move browser window when select website for 10 seconds

After the latest update, when I have firefox up and running and I click on a favourite or type in an address, and website loads.... cannot grab the top bar and move the browser window to another monitor. 10 seconds later... it works.

Hi,
Please check if this happens in [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe%20Mode Safe Mode].
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions Problematic Extensions]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20extensions%20and%20themes Troubleshooting Extensions and Themes]
[http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Uninstalling+add-ons Uninstalling Add-ons]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_toolbars Uninstalling Toolbars]
Safe mode disables the installed '''Extensions''', and themes ('''Appearance''') in '''Tools''' ('''Alt''' + '''T''') > '''Add-ons'''. Hardware acceleration is also temporarily disabled - the manual setting is '''Tools''' > '''Options''' > '''Advanced''' > '''General''' > '''Use hardware acceleration when available'''. [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Options%20window%20-%20Advanced%20panel?as=u Options > Advanced]. All these settings/add-ons can also be individually or collectively disabled/enabled/changed in Firefox normal mode to check if an extension, theme or hardware acceleration is causing issues.
[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Options%20window Options]

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