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[officer]

OK...I've looked for this soultion around but I havent found it.

Basically I have a page with flash and the movie used to be at a specific size, so 800*600 users could see it without scrolling.... but users at high resolutions (I'm at 1280*1024) complain of the text being too small to read, or just plain uncomfortable.

What I'm trying to do is make the mpvie resize to fit any resolution, but KEEP IT'S ASPECT RATIO...I've had problems where I'm using percentages, and differnt "scale" options, and I get stretched images, or small movies with lots of blank vertical or horizontal space. Basically I would need the movie to just "grow"... affecting both the width and height at the same time, at the same ratio, so the movie keeps the same dimensions, and doesnt grow too vertically or horizontally...

I'm at my wit's end with it... anybody have a clue what I could do?

here is the code as i am currently using it, just in case it would help:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" 
width="506" 
height="367" 
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#4,0,0,0">
<param name="SRC" value="itscool.swf">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<param name="play" value="true">
<param name="loop" value="true">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="scale" value="noborder">
<embed src="itscool" 
width="506" 
height="367" 
play="true" 
loop="true" 
quality="high" 
scale="noborder" 
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/" 
type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
</embed>
</object>

[switch]

There isn't much you can do really. The only thing I can think of even close to that would be to nest your movie inside a table and wip up some JavaScript to control the table's size based on the users resolution. That would be the first thing I would try.

[officer]

How does one write HTML code to 'nest' a flash movie inside a table?

I'm a bit confused with the word 'nest'.

[vito]

I'm not a programmer, but would it be possible (I'm guessing with JS) to have it detect the visitor's resolution, and then based on that, it would display the proper swf? You'd obviously have to have a few premade swf's , one for each resolution.

Vito

[ANMMark]

Depending on how you've made your flash movie you can simply use percentage values instead of limited values.

For example:
height= 100%
width=100%

An alternative, would be a flash resolution detection. Based on their res. it would forward to a different page.

You could even allow the folks to choose their res, and use php to redirect them.

you could use one page, and one swf file, but use a php array to decide which block of code to use.

If you're interested, and need help, let me know, and I'll show you how to write the code for that.

[alexcroft199]

Do two seperate movies very similar but just different sizes and just let them choose their resolution.