Pixels and Millimeters.

Hi there,
I have a question about using millimeters in Flash.
In Flash (cs3) you can set your Document properties width and
height to mm (also the ruler units).
In my movie I would like to set the width of a movie in
millimers. So I thought to do it like this:
object_mc.width = 100; // the object_mc movieclip must get a
width of 100 mm.
Unfortunately that's not working. It sees this value 100 as
pixels. But when I put this number in the width field in the info
panel it's just fine. So in the info panel flash sees this number
as millimeters.
Is there a possible way to work with millimeters in
actionscript? And is there even a way to adjust the DPI of the
flash file?
Thanks, Peter

Hi Ed,
Thanks. I hoped that there was a method to do this but I'm
afraid that there isn't..
I will go for the convert to millimeters method. In this case
it must be in millimeters because what they see in this flash movie
must be transferred to print (stickers). That's why it must be
pretty accurate.
If someone else still has a way to do this differently please
let me know. Otherwise I will close this thread in a day or
two.

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