Changing Stage size at runtime

Report · Sep 11, 2006

I have been poking around and not finding any info on this.

What I want to do is change the height of the STAGE (not a MovieClip) based
on which view I'm showing the customer at a particular time.

For instance...

I may have a thumbnail and a detail view for a product. I don't need a lot
of screen real estate to show the thumbnail view, but I'd like to make the
swf taller if the user switches to the detail view.

I don't simply want to make the swf taller by default because I'll have a
ton of unused whitespace in thumbnail view, which will look stupid.

I shouldn't have a problem with the JavaScript to change the height
properties in the HTML tags for the Flash object, but not really sure if/how
to do the other part in Flash. Everything I've seen so far has been
read-only properties.

Thanks,

Chris.

Report · Sep 12, 2006

did you change stage size?

how can you do this without javascript?

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>I have been poking around and not finding any info on this.
>
> What I want to do is change the height of the STAGE (not a MovieClip)
> based on which view I'm showing the customer at a particular time.
>
> For instance...
>
> I may have a thumbnail and a detail view for a product. I don't need a lot
> of screen real estate to show the thumbnail view, but I'd like to make the
> swf taller if the user switches to the detail view.
>
> I don't simply want to make the swf taller by default because I'll have a
> ton of unused whitespace in thumbnail view, which will look stupid.
>
> I shouldn't have a problem with the JavaScript to change the height
> properties in the HTML tags for the Flash object, but not really sure
> if/how to do the other part in Flash. Everything I've seen so far has
> been read-only properties.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris.
>
>
>

Report · Sep 13, 2006

Nope - no one has replied yet and I haven't found any info suggesting that
you can change the stage size.

You can definitely change the parameters in the object tag that tells the
browser how big the stage it, but that won't actually change the stage size,
it'll just stretch it out or shrink it appropriately, but the only way I
know of doing this at runtime is with JavaScript.

Report · Sep 13, 2006

okay, you might be able to do something with onResize = function() {} ...i was just looking it up on the live docs...try going to the Flash 8 documentation > ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference > ActionScript classes > Stage

good luck 🙂

Report · Sep 13, 2006

When I first saw that I though it might help too, but unfortunately you can
only change how the browser "stretches" your application.

I can't find any documentation that says you can actually change the stage
size at runtime :(

You know - just like a longer Web page. It's got more content, so it grows
in height (or width) to display all of it.

Report · Sep 13, 2006

Sorry, I have no real help, but I just wanted to point out that I THINK I've seen that done so I believe it is possible. It was an ad on a page that was small and in the corner--most of the page was NOT flash but rather HTML text and pictures, but when you moused over the small ad it expanded to fill most of the page with the Flash ad, covering the ordinary html text and images underneath it.

I was most impressed, but sadly, have no clue as to how it was done.

After having pondered it for the last severl months, I'm guessing it might have been an illusion, perhaps encapsulating the full-sized flash movie in an expanding layer or something using js. Who knows?

Report · Sep 13, 2006

Most of this tricks are illusion, the eye is slow and you can create and see things that are just tricks. I never heard about of doing this at runtime in flash.
If is not java script then a plugin that can create the trick?Another softweare that integrate with flash?
Can you send me the link in wich you see it? Any way I will search because I'm also interest in doing this too. If you know something else let me know.

Report · Sep 13, 2006

Most of this tricks are illusion, the eye is slow and you can create and see things that are just tricks. I never heard about of doing this at runtime in flash.
If is not java script then a plugin that can create the trick?Another softweare that integrate with flash?
Can you send me the link in wich you see it? Any way I will search because I'm also interest in doing this too. If you know something else let me know.

Report · Sep 13, 2006

Most of this tricks are illusion, the eye is slow and you can create and see things that are just tricks. I never heard about of doing this at runtime in flash.
If is not java script then a plugin that can create the trick?Another softweare that integrate with flash?
Can you send me the link in wich you see it? Any way I will search because I'm also interest in doing this too. If you know something else let me know.

Report · Sep 13, 2006

I wish I could send you the link, but like I said, it was an advertisement and it was over a news page. This was months ago so it's long gone and there's no telling where it (or something like it) will spring up again.

Report · Sep 13, 2006

>>change the height of the STAGE
No can do. As you say, read-only props.
The only way is to set the height and width in the object/embed tags and pass in the values to the swf as flashvars. Then in the swf, based on the passed in width and height, you can set dimensions for every element in the swf -> like setting a grid for the lay-out and change dimensions of movieclips dynamically.

Report · Sep 22, 2006

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