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flash website dimension??
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Jenny...
Interesting question, similar to a problem virt2001 and I are presently tackling. I've never used Dreamweaver, so can't say much about that! But I think you should consider the following: Unless you're displaying your Flash movie in a fullscreen popup window (and, to some extent, even if you were!), designing it at 800*600, will make your movie already a tight fit if the user has his resolution set at 800*600, although it should fit in nicely if the user's resolution is set at 1024*768. So maybe you could still design your Flash movie at 800*600 and scale it down in Dreamweaver, to 90% or even less if it's required till you get a satisfying view of your site in a standard browser window with a tool bar & etc...
Of course doing so & using only one file for any resolution, would mean your movie would be scaled down even more looking at it with a resolution set at 1024*768... And even more again for higher resolutions.
Compromises!
;-)ldnewbie
Interesting question, similar to a problem virt2001 and I are presently tackling. I've never used Dreamweaver, so can't say much about that! But I think you should consider the following: Unless you're displaying your Flash movie in a fullscreen popup window (and, to some extent, even if you were!), designing it at 800*600, will make your movie already a tight fit if the user has his resolution set at 800*600, although it should fit in nicely if the user's resolution is set at 1024*768. So maybe you could still design your Flash movie at 800*600 and scale it down in Dreamweaver, to 90% or even less if it's required till you get a satisfying view of your site in a standard browser window with a tool bar & etc...
Of course doing so & using only one file for any resolution, would mean your movie would be scaled down even more looking at it with a resolution set at 1024*768... And even more again for higher resolutions.
Compromises!
;-)ldnewbie
Hi,
I just thought I would put my two cents in. I was having this same problem. So I designed my flash at 8 by 6 then on the webpage I dynamically scale it to fit the users available screen size using javascript. It seems to work fairly well.
Hope this helps
I just thought I would put my two cents in. I was having this same problem. So I designed my flash at 8 by 6 then on the webpage I dynamically scale it to fit the users available screen size using javascript. It seems to work fairly well.
Hope this helps
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Hi, guys
thanks for your information. I tried that yesterday, and found the best way, in my opinion, is to set it in Html code. I created a table, and set the width of table 100%(or 90%) width. Then insert the flash movie into the table. It worked fine in different size monitors. This way, I avoid the pixels, which is hard to set to meet the needs of monitors from 14 inches to 21 inches.
Thanks
thanks for your information. I tried that yesterday, and found the best way, in my opinion, is to set it in Html code. I created a table, and set the width of table 100%(or 90%) width. Then insert the flash movie into the table. It worked fine in different size monitors. This way, I avoid the pixels, which is hard to set to meet the needs of monitors from 14 inches to 21 inches.
Thanks
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