Display size

[EdFredenburgh]

Very basic question: I'm building an animated cartoon for a school, to be run on their PCs (and copied on to CD/DVD for kids to take home). What size should I set the Flash stage to avoid unfilled areas on the screen?

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Do you mean you want to create a fullscreen Flash movie? Then what you need is:

[tt]fscommand("fullscreen", "true");[/tt]

Put this in the first frame of the main timeline. The Stage size can be anything, as it will fill whatever size screen anyway, but 1024 x 768 or 800 x 600 would be usual choices.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[EdFredenburgh]

Many thanks, Kenneth. I did mean a full-screen Flash movie; but I forgot to note that it will include backgrounds scanned and sized in Photoshop, to fill the screen. These would be big files, even at 72dpi, so I don't want them any bigger than necessary. To do this, and place them properly on the stage, should I size both to one of your recommended sizes?

 

[kennethkawamoto]

As I said the physical dimension of your Flash movie can be anything. However, the smaller the original the pooler the quality when it is stretched to fill the screen for the bitmap assets (such as your scanned image), as they will be pixelated. But bigger Stage size means bigger file size, you have to find the right balance between the quality and the file size. Just experiment a bit.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[EdFredenburgh]

Understood. Many thanks again.