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Scale flex/flash movie size to fit html text size

Asked by: dparkes

How do I get the size of a flash movie written in Flex to automatically change its size when the web browser user changes the text size?  Everything else on the page seems to resize automatically except my flash movie.

The code below seems to scale someone else's SWF, but mine does not seem to want to change size.  Is there a setting in Flex to turn this feature on?

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
 WIDTH="585" HEIGHT="576" id="animacion" ALIGN="">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="test.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>
<EMBED src="test.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF  WIDTH="585" HEIGHT="576" NAME="test" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>

                                  
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2009-09-22 at 21:13:36ID24753839
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Answers

 

by: ChristoferDutzPosted on 2009-09-23 at 00:11:40ID: 25400616

At first set the width and height of your SWF to be dynamic ("100%") currently it has a fixed width of 585 and a height of 576. Otherwise the swf will not be resized at all.

If your swf uses relative positioning, everything should be fine. If not, you may have to make your SWF resizable be reacting to Resize Events. Here's a tutorial on this:
http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3fluidresize/

 

by: dparkesPosted on 2009-09-23 at 08:28:38ID: 25404307

That's what I've read, but in my case it's not working.  Still no resizing even when I use 100%.  It seems like this particular SWF does not want to resize.  

I've just got a test html page at the moment, so I'm using the simplest scenario possible.  When you say relative positioning vs absolute are you refering to div tags?

<!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 runat="server">
   <title></title>
</head>
<body>
   <form id="form1" runat="server">
     This is top<br />
   <br />
     <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" id="test" ALIGN="">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="test.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>
<EMBED src="test.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF  WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" NAME="test" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
<br />
This is bottom<br />
   </form>
</body>
</html>


 

by: dparkesPosted on 2009-09-23 at 09:21:05ID: 25404943

BTW, I just noticed the swf does not resize in the stand alone player either.  I'm sure this must be something really simple like a project setting somewhere.

 

by: dparkesPosted on 2009-09-23 at 09:57:08ID: 25405325

Is it not possible to resize a Flex swf, like a swf made in Flash?

 

by: dparkesPosted on 2009-09-23 at 11:49:18ID: 25406497

I think I found the main thing that I needed:
     
private function initApp():void{
   this.systemManager.stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.EXACT_FIT;
}

That along with using 100% for the size fixed it.  Thanks.

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