Flash movie dimensions, and making things smaller?!

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Hey everyone,
I am working on a site, and have made a very simple page as i am a newcomer to the wonderful world of flash.

I have put up a page:

http://www.hinduvidya.com

A lot of people are complaining that it comes up too big on their comps. My dimensions are 1000 x 700 pixels

My comps res is at the highest setting [1600x1200], so it looks fine.

Is this:

a) too big for everyone to see well
b)fine

If this is too big, how can i shrink everything easily to the right setting?

please help…

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I know you can edit the size in dreamweaver, but then the image of the om becomes fuzzy…i need that NOT to happen lol

Why does this happen to me :q:

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I mean i have two options:

  1. just shrink the entire movie by x% or
  2. make someway of the movie detecting if people are not on the X-level of my movie’s resolution, then redirecting them to a page to tell them to increase their res.

Obviously, a site which makes an inconvenience of itself will never do well, so i would really hope for some way to do number 1 [rather than manually editing everything in the movie which is practically impossible now] but if anyone can offer a way of doing number 2, i’d still be highly grateful.

Thanks…

~Alucard

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Or…is there any way that when i resize the movie in dreamweaver mx, the pictures/text aren’t messed up?

I am sure there must be, but i don’t know how!

Because this would be the most painless and fastest way.

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Hi!
In answer to your questions:
A…and…1.
I couldn’t see your link, I think it’s broken.

A lot of people (like one of my two computers) is still 800x600. So only a portion of your SWF would show up. Telling people to change thier res will usually just make them change their mind about visiting your site.:sure:

Okay. I usually use notepad for my code, but I have Dreamweaver and I know it has a code area. Go to the code area and find your flash object tags. At the end of the object tag, you can adjust the width and height:


...WIDTH="350" HEIGHT="350" id="thunderstars" ALIGN="">

I just tried it to see if it would work and it adjusts the movie and it does! Hope that helps!

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Thank you for taking the time to help me, my friend!

The problem is, when i reduce the ratio of the flash file as you have suggested, the symbol of the “om” pixellates.

Is there anyway to prevent this, friend?

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No, I’m not really sure what you mean by pixellating. You are trying to go smaller, right? If so, then your quality shouldn’t change. If you are going bigger, as far as I know, your quality will be reduced.

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