With your second explanation, the problem you are having is clearer.
About a year ago, I developed an application where I had a container
that loaded SWFs from other developers. I contacted all the developers
with the dimensions and the FPS the SWF container is being built on and
sent them an API
to communicate with the container. It made my life a little easier.
The problem was that some developers didn't conform to the API or read
the docs, which led to last minute phone conferences to explain how to
use the API, but that is besides the point.
Because you have no control of those properties, I believe there isn't a
viable fix other than getting the loaded SWF dimensions from the
movieclip reference. From what I remember; if the SWF you are loading
is built at a faster FPS than your container they will run slower and
the loaded SWF may not account for that. Example; your container is 12
FPS and the loaded SWF is 24 FPS, the loaded SWF will run at 12 FPS.
They might not be checking the current FPS and adjust their parameters
for time based movement.
The only other thing I can think of, but I haven't dealt with was
changing the scale mode of the stage to "showAll" or "exactFit". I am
not sure this will help though and this will affect the container SWF as
well.
Let me know if you do figure this out another way, I would be
interesting to know.
Cheers,
Rob.
matt stuehler wrote:
Claus,
That's a great suggestion - the best answers are often the overlooked,
obvious ones.
But I don't think so - in the original SWFs, the masks aren't
movieclips - they're just fills. So, I don't know how you'd check
their width or height.
The key thing about the application is that I won't know anything
about the SWFs that are being loaded.
My app should simply load a swf into a container movieclip, then
attempt to scale it to fit the stage, and center it.
Ordinarily, I can just check the container._width and
container._height to accomplish this. But I've tested a few SWFs that
weren't working properly, and that's when I discovered that they were
using masks, which throws off the _width and _height.
I can't assume that the SWFs will use a movieclip as a mask.
Thanks again for your advice.
Cheers,
Matt
On 4/18/07, Claus Wahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to be able to find the VISIBLE height and width of those
> SWFs; however _width and _height return the size of ALL the masked
> content.
Can't you just check the width/height of the mask?
Cheers,
Claus.
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