# Static text size and screen resolution **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [August 14, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996 "2004-08-14T18:51:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mx\_guest2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@mx\_guest2004](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mx_guest2004)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/1 "2004-08-14T18:51:15Z")
Hi, When animating MCs with static text on a high resolution screen (1280x1024), the text is seen too large on a 800x600 screen. What is the solution? Just choosing a very smaller text size when creating the movie, or there are better methods to do this? Thanks 🙂 mc-guest2004 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 7:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/2 "2004-08-15T07:59:19Z")
Any help on this problem, please? mx-guest2004 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/3 "2004-08-15T11:55:47Z")
Quick tips : Select the text, and break apart them since it’s only static. Good luck ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/4 "2004-08-15T12:01:14Z")
You know, I have many MCs with static text and these are being animated. mx-guest2004 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 12:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/5 "2004-08-15T12:03:29Z")
Doesn’t matter. What you need just select the text, hit Ctrl+B, and hit Ctrl+B again if you are using PC. After that select them all and you convert them to movie clips, or graphic so you can animate them and/or scale them according to your need. Actually, I’d like to ask, because I’m not clear of your first post, what do you want with your static text? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/6 "2004-08-15T12:42:47Z")
My static text is a MC which for example goes from A to B on the screen and may rotate at some position and stuff like that. How about just scaling the flash movie as a whole. I mean just writing in an action layer: [AS] this.\_xscale=75; // or whatever this.\_yscale=75;// … [/AS] In this way I can scale the whole movie. The problem is that I’m sitting here with a high resolution screen (1280x1024) and the movie has to be suitable for 800x600 screen as well. I’m a little bit confused about for each MC what size is good for a screen with a lower resolution? Maybe I have to have 2 screen after all ☹🙂 ?? mx-guest2004 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/7 "2004-08-15T23:46:43Z")
Oh I see what you mean. FYI, I work with 1280x1024 as well. The way I handle every project in order that It can be seen relatively suitable to any computer screen is to set up the stage to 780x550. I then put FS Command ( noScale) in the first frame. Hope can helps. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/8 "2004-08-16T01:02:50Z")
what does this do…FS Command ( noScale) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/9 "2004-08-16T01:08:13Z")
FS Command is used to set up the behaviour of the movie upon projected on the screen. (Please look up closely the correct definition of this FS Comman in AS Dictionary). There are FS Command for scale, show menu, and full screen ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/10 "2004-08-16T05:04:05Z")
Thanks Beebs, You know, what I have seen is that everything (I mean fonts and bitmaps and vektor images) just looks much larger in a 800x600 screen. If you choose a font size (for example 30 pix) in your project, is that be seen the same at a 800x600 resolution? and if you choose a size for your bitmap at your screen, does a user with 800x600 see the same quality of that bitmap on his/her screen? So, you mean the solution is “noscale”, is that right? mx-guest2004 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/11 "2004-08-16T10:51:01Z")
Basically yes. Try to search this forum of fscommand. There are a lot of practical post/reply of that subject. If you choose no scale then there won’t be any possibility that your movie going to be scaled. That’s why I told you above about the dimension of your movie, which relatively will be seen “appropriate” in any screen settings. You can always test the result of your project, by changing the screen setting of your computer. I believe you can do this easily. Cheers ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/12 "2004-08-16T11:29:27Z")
Yes, I have changed my screen setting to 800x600 and then saw that everything looks much larger and especially text. One thing about “noscale”. I can use: [AS] Stage.scaleMode=“noScale”; [/AS] Is that the same thing? “Noscaling” helped me thanks 🙂 , but still the problem of the text and image size is there. You can see if you make a simple flash file with a text MC and a font 25 pix for example and then change the screen settings to 800x600. The text looks much larger now ☹ mx-guest2004 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/13 "2004-08-16T12:20:51Z")
Put the following code in the first frame of your movie : ```auto //2 The following is needed to set up the movie projected in the screen: fscommand("fullscreen", "false"); fscommand("allowscale", "false"); fscommand("showmenu", "false"); ``` Then your movie won’t be able to be resized ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/14 "2004-08-16T12:59:38Z")
I used your commands and they works just fine. You know, the movie is not resized. To see what I mean, I believe you have a flash movie with some text near you now. Just change your screen setting to 800x600 (if you use a high resolution screen) and play the movie. The movie has the same size but your text seems larger on the screen know, doesn’t it? I mean an “A” with a font size=30 looks larger on a screen with 800X600 (it’s size still is 30) . The user with a 800x600 screen sees a larger “A”. So maybe I have to choose an “A” with font size 20 on my screen with 1280x1024, so the “A” looks BETTER on his/her screen. Sorry, I hope you see my point now. mx-guest2004 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/15 "2004-08-16T13:24:26Z")
Can you put your movie somewhere so I can have a look? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/16 "2004-08-16T14:39:56Z")
This movie hasn’t anything, but a simple text as a MC. Look at that on your high resolution screen and a 800x600 setting. The text seems larger. Text has a font of 30 pix, but 30 pix on a 800x600 screen takes a larger space than 30 pix on a 1280x1024 and it seems to be larger. The problem is that the movie I see on my screen may be not the same as a user with a 800x600 sees. mx-guest2004 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/17 "2004-08-16T18:18:00Z")
ok may i say that this is a bad idea thinking that you can emulate an 800X600 screen res on a 1280 monitor??? send it to someone with a natural 800 screen res (like urs truly ;)) an get them to take a screenshot. dont forget if you change your screen res like that you are telling it to basically scale up everything to fit into your monitor! if i change it to 1024X768 everything looks tiny for the same reason… hope ive helped - your original might be fine! Prophet. EDIT:- just saw the second page 😉 heres a screen shot: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/18 "2004-08-16T18:27:30Z")
Oh, SORRY Prophet. You have attached and I didn’t see that. Thanks man. 🙂 mx-guest2004 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-size-and-screen-resolution/60996/19 "2004-08-16T18:35:25Z")
Thanks Prophet, you saved me 🙂 and thanks Beebs. Now I can just make it the movie unscalable and be relax with the animation itself. 🙂 🙂 mx-guest2004