HOW TO GET RID OF WHITE BACKGROUND AROUND THE EDGES OF FLASH MOVIES 1

[sammul]

Hi,

I need help!!! Every time i export a movie and then look at it through flash player full screen it shows the backgroundwhen it shouldn't. So u can see things that have come off the screen or coming into the screen when u shouldn't.

Please HELP me!!!!!

Thanx.

 

[davdesign]

Might be a transparency problem. I posted a link earlier on about a guy who's tackled this problem. Might be worth a look. davdesign@hotmail.com

 

[oldnewbie]

Are you sure movie size on export isn't larger than you think it is? While testing your movie or working on the stage do you set view at 100% or show all?

;-)

 

[sammul]

Yeh i know i have the right size and it is viewed at 100%.
I have tried everything. I downloaded some other flash movies and played around with them, trying to figure out how they kept it to just the content on the stage but i can't figure it out. God help me!!!!!!

 

[oldnewbie]

And this is happening within your local flashplayer? Not in any browser view with html?

;-)

 

[sammul]

Just in the flash player. When i publish it and play it in the browser there's nothing wrong with it. Works perfectly.
What should i do????

 

[oldnewbie]

One last question: first time this has happened? Or has it always been this way?

Get Flash5... or if you are running it, scrapt it and re-install! How should I know... I'm soooo old!

;-)

 

[sammul]

Well i have flash 4 but i guess i could download flash 5.
Do u think it will make any difference?

 

[oldnewbie]

Well... you haven't answered my first question in my previous post!

;-)

 

[sammul]

always been like that. I thought it was normal till i saw a few others on flash player.

 

[oldnewbie]

Hey... Download the Flash5 trial version... before scraping
4... and see what happens!
Best I can do! Sorry!

;-)

 

[davdesign]

Just sounds like dodgy software to me (if it's DEFINITELY FlashPlayer and not just Ctrl+Enter movie test).

dD davdesign@hotmail.com

 

[sammul]

It's both, but see i have the ripped version of flash 4 so... but i don't think that's what's causing it because it was a good copy.

 

[davdesign]

Well, I'm puzzled Sammul, so I'll just have to wish you good luck in your quest.

dD davdesign@hotmail.com

 

[sammul]

oh well thanx any way..

bye

 

[Supra]

Um.. forgive me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like a really easy puzzle to solve. If you have a white background in flash player on a maximized screen, that could mean that your movie is not scaled. In the flash player, when you maximize it, is the movie the same size as specified in your Movie settings or larger? In any case, try doing two things.. make sure in your movie settings (Modify -> Movie or Ctrl+M) that your background color is not set to white. If you still have the problem, go to the first frame of your movie and open the actions for that frame. Insert the following:

fscommand ("allowscale", "true");

That will allow the movie to be scaled when maximized, which should overlap the white background. I had a similar problem to yours when working with a Flash 4 movie that I converted to Flash 5, and the only way I could resolve it was to scale everything in the movie manually. You could also try changing the size of the movie to just a bit smaller, to cut out the edges which are white while still being able to see the movie. If none of that works, just get Flash 5. It's tons better than 4 anyway. Some people will say it's not, but I'm creating far more interactive movies with it, and it's just as easy to use as Flash 4 (for me anyway). Hope this helped.

JuiCe