Hi Su. What you set your ruler units to within the IDE do not represent what will be shown once published. If you are developing content for the web, you will need to learn to think in pixels as browsers do not measure things in inches. You can have a laptop which has a screen of 15.4" in measurement, but has a screen pixel resolution width of 1920px. Another laptop also 15.4" could have a resolution of 1024px. The two are not the same or linked...
You need to design your site to fit safely for a given resolution. Most people still work under the minimum of 1024x768 screens as the default, which gives you a safe area of 955 x 600px (by the time you get toolbars, scrollbars etc). In your example page I see a vertical scrollbar (always) as you have both 100% height definition for your swf file AND "site built by" content afterwards which means there is always more content than what the browser can show without a vertical scrollbar, AND I see a horizontal scrollbar once < 1000px as defined by your CSS. The page is working just like it should (given the content). If you want to use 100% scaling on your flash file like in your example page, then you cannot have other content which is also on the page. Either that or you can define a fixed size DIV and have Flash fill that to 100% instead. Anyhow, neither of these things are SWFObject specific. A web design forum which covers the basics might be the best place to hang out and ask some questions... Aran On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Su Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: > Flash file dimensions are set in the Modify/Document command and can > be in whatever units you choose in the pop up menu. I choose inches > cause I can't think in pixels. So take that 'um' back right now! LOL > > The content is the correct size and scrollbars do display, but only in > the horizontal direction, the vertical direction is cut off by the > smaller screen of a laptop, but in that direction there are no > scrollbars so there's no way to see what's on that lower section of > the movie. > > Example: got to http://www.steveandersondesign.com/index.htm > Now resize the window so that it is much smaller. You'll notice that > horizontal scrollbars appear, but no vertical ones. Weird, isn't it? > Is there some command I need to implement to get those verticals > scroll bars? > > thanks so much for any help. > > Su > > On Aug 30, 7:25 am, Aran Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Um, Flash files are measures in pixels, not inches. > > > > Is the content at the correct size and you are wanting scrollbars to > > display, or are you saying that the Flash file is displaying larger than > it > > should (ie the content is zoomed when it should not be), and you want > resize > > its dimensions. > > > > Aran > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Su Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My Flash movie dimensions are 14.5"w x 13"h, which is too large to > > > display full on my laptop. When swfobject is used and I load this page > > > in Firefox or Chrome, the movie's height is cut off at the height of > > > my laptop screen, with no scrollbars to enable one to scroll down and > > > see the remainder of the movie. > > > > > Can anyone suggest a fix for this? > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "SWFObject" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > <swfobject%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups .com> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SWFObject" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en.
