100% flash movie size with javascript

[ice78991]

I am using a DOM Script to load a flash movie and I want to set the movie size to fit the screen 100%.

I have used screen.availHeight to get the screen dimensions but have found that I needed to tweek the figure ( -175 ) to get a better fit.

Could someone explain why this is so and is this the best way to get a close to 100% fit. It seems to act differently in Firefox and IE but results are fairly good. I am using the script to load the movie to avoid IE's click to activate this control warning.

<center><p id="site"><a href="

http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Please

Upgrade to Flash 8</a> to use this sitedemo.</p></center>

<script type="text/javascript">

var scrWidth = (screen.availWidth - 50).toString();
var scrHeight = (screen.availHeight - 175).toString();

var FO = { movie:"movie.swf",width:scrWidth,height:scrHeight,majorversion:"8",build:"0",bgcolor:"#000000"};
UFO.create(FO,"site");
</script>

 

[kennethkawamoto]

screen.availWidth/Height is the size of the screen (minus OS elements such as task bar under Windows), not the browser window. To measure the browser window size use window.innerWidth/Height for standard browsers and document.body.offsetWidth/Height for non-standard IE.

But why not just use 100% as Flash size? Use SWFObject: <

http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/fullpage.html>

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[ice78991]

Thanks. Will swfObject bypass the 'Click to activate this control' message on all relevant browser versions?

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Yes that's the reason why it exists!!!

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[ice78991]

Thanks for your help