Size of avm1movie in as3

Hi,
I'm developing a new website in as3, and would simply like to
load the adobe media gallery (as2) swf for one section. I'm new to
flash, but have managed to get the as2 content to load. The trouble
is that the as2 movie expands to the size I've defined in HTML for
the as3 movie, pushing the as3 content off to the side and below.
How do I make this as2 swf work within the scale of the as3 movie?
When I try eg. loader.content.width, the loader content doesn't
show up but still resizes the embedding as3.
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
var url:String = "resources/gallery.swf";
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
var container:Sprite = new Sprite();
addChild(container);
loader.load(request);
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,
swfLoaded);
function swfLoaded(e:Event):void {
container.addChild(loader.content);
Best,
Dylan Oliver

you should be using:
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            holdersArray[i][j].x=midsArray[i][j].x;
            holdersArray[i][j].y=midsArray[i][j].y;
            holdersArray[i][j].z=midsArray[i][j].z;
            holdersArray[i][j].rotationX=phiTilt[i];
            holdersArray[i][j].rotationY=-j*thetaStep[i];
      zSortPics();
'zSortPics' depth-sorts all thumbnails corresponding to each view of
the sphere. It sorts thumbnails by removing them (or more precisely
their holders, holdersArray[i][j], as children of spSphere and then reassigning
them based on the z-coordinates of their midpoints.
function zSortPics():void {
    var distArray:Array=[];
    var dist:Number;
    var i:int;
    var j:int;
    var k:int;
    var curMatrix:Matrix3D;
    var curMid:Vector3D;
    curMatrix=spSphere.transform.matrix3D.clone();
    while(spSphere.numChildren>0){
        spSphere.removeChildAt(0);
        for(i=0;i<7;i++){
            for(j=0;j<jLen[i];j++){
            curMid=curMatrix.deltaTransformVector(midsArray[i][j]);
            dist=curMid.z;
            distArray.push([dist,i,j]);
      distArray.sort(byDist);
      for(k=0;k<distArray.length;k++){
          spSphere.addChild(holdersArray[distArray[k][1]][distArray[k][2]]);
          holdersArray[distArray[k][1]][distArray[k][2]].alpha=Math.max(k/(distArray.length-1),0.5) ;
function byDist(v:Array,w:Array):Number {
     if (v[0]>w[0]){
        return -1;
      } else if (v[0]<w[0]){
        return 1;
       } else {
        return 0;
The function that rotates the sphere in response to the user moving the mouse.
Note we are setting the z coordinate to 0 before rotation. Otherwise,
the non-zero translation coefficients produce undesirable effects.
Note also that we do not use this function in 'autoRotate'. That is because
when the sphere auto-rotates we want it to revolve about is pole-to-pole
axis. That means prepending rather than appending rotation.
See the function 'autoRotate' above.
function rotateSphere(rotx:Number,roty:Number,rotz:Number):void {
      spSphere.z=0;
      spSphere.transform.matrix3D.appendRotation(rotx,Vector3D.X_AXIS);
      spSphere.transform.matrix3D.appendRotation(roty,Vector3D.Y_AXIS);
      spSphere.transform.matrix3D.appendRotation(rotz,Vector3D.Z_AXIS);
      spSphere.z=rad;
      zSortPics();

I won't be searching thru all that code to try to find something relevant to your post, but if you are using a Loader to load the images, you can get the width and height as soon as the loading is complete using the loader object (loader.width, loader.height). You just need to wait until loading is complete, so you'll need a listener for that if you don't have one already.

How to change the size of every object in a flash file

i created a flash website but the problem is the size is to large to fit on screen i have imbeded buttons, Movies clips, masks, and about 7 different scenes in this 13 mb movie what do i do to make the physicle size of the objects on screen so i can view it on my sceen?

the easiest thing to do would be to load your swf into a main swf and resize the target movieclip (as2) or loader (as3) after loading is complete.

ANN vCam AS3

Announcing vCam AS3 for Flash. For those of you who are
unfamiliar with vCam, I’ll give you a brief explanation. In
2005, Sham Bhangal and Dave Dixon released the original vCam or
“virtul camera” for Flash. Let’s say you are
working on an animation and you want the animation to pan from left
to right. Normally you would have to create tweens for all the
layers in your timeline. However, the vCam allows a Flash developer
to animate a single vCam instance on the timeline to create the
same pan. Simply place the vCam on left side of the stage and
create a motion tween to the right side of the stage. Publish out
your file and bam! You’ve just made your scene pan with a
single tween. Pans aren’t the only thing you could do with
vCam. You could also change it’s size and add color
transformations.
Now vCam AS3 brings a whole new list of features, including:
- Rotation
- Blur
- Brightness/Contrast
- Hue/Saturation
- and more!
Visit
www.bryanheisey.com for more
information and download the source for free.

As this does sound nice, please refrain from advertising
here. Read the posting guidlines
"We gave at the office! No advertising or solicitation is
permitted on Adobe's Online Forums. However, if you have an
announcement to make that is of direct interest to a particular
forum topic - a single post is acceptable, as long as you add 'ANN'
(for 'announcement') to the beginning of your subject line. This
way people who are not interested can easily skip past your post."
So, maybe you could change your topic title to read "ANN vCam
blah blah". However, it really should be in the ActionScript 3
forums, and not under general.

Motion Tweens in AS3

I'm trying to make a screen object(digitB1_mc) move in one of two different directions, depending upon the current cicumstances.
I drew the Motion Tween _B1_12 and saved it as a preset for the first direction.
I drew the Motion Tween _B1_21 and saved it as a preset for the second direction.
Then I tried to find AS3 code to grab one of these two from the presets and apply it to digitB1_mc. Could not find a way to do it.
Then I copied _B1_12 to Actionscript 3.0 code (ie. clipboard) and pasted it into an Actionscript 3.0 function B1_12 and got:
function B1_12() {
import fl.motion.AnimatorFactory;
import fl.motion.MotionBase;
import fl.motion.Motion;
import flash.filters.*;
import flash.geom.Point;
var __motion_digitB1_mc:MotionBase;
if(__motion_digitB1_mc == null) {
    __motion_digitB1_mc = new Motion();
    __motion_digitB1_mc.duration = 11;
    // Call overrideTargetTransform to prevent the scale, skew,
    // or rotation values from being made relative to the target
    // object's original transform.
    // __motion_digitB1_mc.overrideTargetTransform();
    // The following calls to addPropertyArray assign data values
    // for each tweened property. There is one value in the Array
    // for every frame in the tween, or fewer if the last value
    // remains the same for the rest of the frames.
    __motion_digitB1_mc.addPropertyArray("x", [0,7.4116,14.0277,19.6419,23.9742,26.6463,27.1809,25.0619,19.91,11.7411,1]);
    __motion_digitB1_mc.addPropertyArray("y", [0,-14.8969,-30.1606,-45.8179,-61.8789,-78.2953,-94.9161,-111.395,-127.195,-141.658,-154. 35]);
    __motion_digitB1_mc.addPropertyArray("scaleX", [1.000000]);
    __motion_digitB1_mc.addPropertyArray("scaleY", [1.000000]);
    __motion_digitB1_mc.addPropertyArray("skewX", [0]);
    __motion_digitB1_mc.addPropertyArray("skewY", [0]);
    __motion_digitB1_mc.addPropertyArray("rotationConcat", [0,36,72,108,144,180,216,252,288,324,360]);
    __motion_digitB1_mc.addPropertyArray("blendMode", ["normal"]);
    __motion_digitB1_mc.addPropertyArray("cacheAsBitmap", [false]);
    // Create an AnimatorFactory instance, which will manage
    // targets for its corresponding Motion.
    var __animFactory_digitB1_mc:AnimatorFactory = new AnimatorFactory(__motion_digitB1_mc);
    __animFactory_digitB1_mc.transformationPoint = new Point(0.500000, 0.500000);
    // Call the addTarget function on the AnimatorFactory
    // instance to target a DisplayObject with this Motion.
    // The second parameter is the number of times the animation
    // will play - the default value of 0 means it will loop.
    // __animFactory_digitB1_mc.addTarget(<instance name goes here>, 0);
But when I called this function it did nothing at all except increase my swf file size from 3.8 kb to 27.3 kb.
Can anyone suggest a solution that would allow me to swap back and forth between two motions for an object.
Thanks,

The culprit is most likely the garbage collector. If you do
not have any references to your tween object, it will eventually be
destroyed by the garbage collector.
From
Adobe
Flash Quick Start
quote:
Note: Consider variable scope when using the Tween class. If
a tween is created in a function, it is important that the
variable's scope exists beyond the function itself. If a tween is
stored to a variable of local scope, ActionScript garbage
collection removes the tween as the function completes, which will
likely be before the tween has even begun.

Publishing a flash with AS3.0 on website does not work

Okay, I'm finally at the end of my flash card. Here's the whole code.
//import classes
import com.greensock.TweenLite;
import com.greensock.easing.*;
import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
//end of importing
//start of sound section is for sound
var cssLoader:URLLoader;
var css:StyleSheet;
var soundReq:URLRequest=new URLRequest("audioFiles/PaukenBrumfiel_AngelsOnHigh.mp3");
var sound:Sound = new Sound();
sound.load(soundReq);
sound.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
//end of sound section
//Loading external texts
var weiss:Font = new Weiss();
var weissBold:Font = new WeissBolder18();
var weissBolder:Font = new WeissBolder();
var slideXTween:Tween;
var txtAlphaTween:Tween;
var txtNextText:Tween;
var txtContainer:Sprite;
var txtField:TextField = new TextField();
var myTxtField:TextField = new TextField();
var txtFldwebImages:TextField = new TextField();
var textRequest:URLRequest=new URLRequest("happyHoliday.txt");
var textLoad:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var txtFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
var myLinkFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
var strLink:String;
var numXPos:Number;
var numYPos:Number;
//end of loading external texts
function onComplete(event:Event):void {
    sound.play();
function textReady(event:Event):void {
    //txtFormat.font= weiss.fontName;
    txtFormat.color=0x000066;
    txtFormat.size=24;
    //txtField.x = stage.stageWidth;
    //txtField.width = 800;
    txtField.autoSize=TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
    //txtField.height = txtField.autoSize
    txtField.wordWrap=false;
    txtField.text=event.target.data;
    txtField.setTextFormat(txtFormat);
    //txtField.y = 350;
    txtField.embedFonts=true;
textLoad.load(textRequest);
txtFormat.font= weiss.fontName;
textLoad.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, textReady);
txtField.x=stage.stageWidth;
addChild(txtField);
txtField.y=350;
TweenLite.to(txtField, 40, {x:-stage.stageWidth*2.25, ease:Linear.easeNone, delay:0.5, onComplete:Inspiration});
function Inspiration():void {
    txtFormat.font= weissBolder.fontName;
    textLoad.load(new URLRequest("inspiration.txt"));
    txtField.x=130;
    txtField.y=330;
    txtField.alpha=0;
    TweenLite.to(txtField, 5, {alpha:1, onComplete:GoogleFunc});
function GoogleFunc():void {
    //create and initialize css
    addChild(myTxtField);
    strLink = "<a href='http://www.google.com/' target='_blank'>Google</a>";
    numXPos = 180;
    numYPos = 370;
    var myCSS:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
    myCSS.setStyle("a:link", {color:'#000066',textDecoration:'none'});
    myCSS.setStyle("a:hover", {color:'#FF6600',textDecoration:'underline'});
    txtFormat.font = weissBold.fontName;
    //txtFormat.color=0x000066;
    txtFormat.size=20;
    //txtFormat.bold = true;
    myTxtField.setTextFormat(txtFormat);
    myTxtField.defaultTextFormat=txtFormat;
    myTxtField.styleSheet = myCSS; // Linking CSS to TextField
    myTxtField.htmlText="";
    myTxtField.htmlText=strLink;
    myTxtField.wordWrap=false;
    //myTxtField.embedFonts = true;
    myTxtField.width = strLink.length*2;
    myTxtField.x=numXPos;
    myTxtField.y=numYPos;
    //trace("Third txtField.y: " + txtField.y);
    myTxtField.alpha=0;
    TweenLite.to(myTxtField, 1, {alpha:1, onComplete:webImages});
    //trace("tween done");
function webImages():void {
    addChild(txtFldwebImages);
    var myCSS:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
    myCSS.setStyle("a:link", {fontsize:'20',color:'#000066',textDecoration:'none'});
    myCSS.setStyle("a:hover", {fontsize:'20',color:'#FF6600',textDecoration:'underline'});
    txtFormat.font = weissBold.fontName;
    //txtFormat.color=0x000066;
    txtFormat.size=20;
    //txtFormat.bold = true;
    txtFldwebImages.setTextFormat(txtFormat);
    txtFldwebImages.defaultTextFormat=txtFormat;
    txtFldwebImages.styleSheet = myCSS; // Linking CSS to TextField
    txtFldwebImages.htmlText = "";
    txtFldwebImages.htmlText="<a href='http://www.google.com/webImages/' target='_blank'>Google Images</a>";
    txtFldwebImages.wordWrap=false;
    //myTxtField.embedFonts = true;
    txtFldwebImages.width = 300;
    txtFldwebImages.x=300;
    txtFldwebImages.y=370;
    txtFldwebImages.alpha=0;
    TweenLite.to(txtFldwebImages, 1, {alpha:1});
//end of loading external texts
Okay, the problem is when I publish the .swf files and put it in an html or .aspx page, it does not work. The audio is not there and a few others things ar enot working. However, it does work if I click on the.html file that Flash created during the publication.
Here are the folder structions:
www.mysite.com/myFlashPage.aspx
www.mysite.com/flashFileFolder/
www.mysite.com/flashFileFolder/audioFiles/
So, the myFlashPage.aspx containsthe myFlash.swf file that is inside the flashFileFolder. For some reason, it does not work. Any suggestion is much appreciated.

The .html file does work if I publish it into the same folder as I created the Flash project. However, when I publish the
flash .swf to my web site folder (mapped), it's no longer working. The mapped web site drive structher are as follows:
D:\Mysite\ contains the .html file
D:\Mysite\flashFileFolder\ contains the .swf file
D:\Mysite\flashFileFolder\audioFiles contains the PaukenBrumfiel_AngelsOnHigh.mp3 file
D:\Mysite\flashFileFolder\greensock-tweening-platform-as3 contains all the tweenlite files
The .html file does not work either. What else do I need to change?

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