restraining SWF to stage size

[anabasa]

Hi all

I've been making some banners for my company to be sent to certain profesional magazines. While checking the swfs, we noticed that, when opend directly on a web browser (as swf standalone), it (a) shows all the elements, including those outside stage and (b) gets resiced depending on the screen size.

So my question is:

Is there a way to prevent this happening? I mean, is there a scripting/non scripting way to force the swf size to stage size and nothing else so that we don't show anything we shound't?

thanx in advance

[relaxatraja]

I hope its not possible when you directly open flash on browser, has to solve by using html only.

[anabasa]

It should be but, since we do not control the HTML process (only swf), we would rather have any out of stage object securely hidden.

[relaxatraja]

Or else have a simple background design outside the stage with the maximum width and height. but it sucks memory.

[anabasa]

I thought of something like that too (a mate) but then, the actual width and height of the swf oppend in the browser would be larger than it should... why, I do not know...

[Ned Murphy · Accepted solution]

You can have everything under a mask layer as an option.  If the ads are to be used online, it is unlikely they will not be embedded in an html file.