screen.availheight used to load flash movie

[ice78991]

I am using javascript 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>

 

[nickdel]

ice78991, you could use

document.body.clientHeight
document.body.clientWidth

as I believe these act the same in both FF and IE.

Nick

 

[nickdel]

Ice78991, did this sort out your problem?

Nick