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scottelliott
09-06-2005, 05:27 PM
Hi,

I want to load a webpage into a flash movie. Much like you can do for jpg's execpt whole websites. So i will be able to limit the size of the page.

I want to do it in Swish as a sprite, so it loads it into the size/shape of my sprite..

is this at all possible??

Cheers

Scott

ironpath
09-06-2005, 06:01 PM
you could use external movie clips in flash mx. that might be what you are looking for. Ive never seen what your looking for done, usually its just a jpg image like you said.

carlos_pires
09-07-2005, 11:02 AM
You can only load either a JPEG image or another Flash movie.
Could you give more details as to what are you really trying to accomplish?

scottelliott
09-07-2005, 05:24 PM
What im trying to do is load the webpage into the flash movie in realtime.

The equivalent in html would be an iframe.

So i have my stage then i have a rectangle, now i want to load the website inside that rectangle.

carlos_pires
09-07-2005, 06:17 PM
I'm afraid that's not possible. The Flash plugin should have a whole browser tucked up inside it in order for you to be able to pull that off.
What it is in fact capable of is to render some HTML text, though it is very limited: only <a>,<b>,<i>,<u>,<br>,<font>,<img>,<li>,<p> and <span> tags are read; and even so there's a lot of attributes in some of these tags that Flash won't render.
Flash can also render some CSS styles, but it has a lot of limitations in this field also. Flash simply isn't ment to do that.
If you want to display a whole page inside another, your best bet is something like an iframe. But if you want to scale live webpage content, you're out of luck...
Still, I guess it is possible to automate a process in which you take a snapshot of a webpage, save it as a jpeg file and feed it to a Flash application... but that will require a whole lot of ingenius coding.

Cheers,