# Stretch stage only when necessary

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stretch-stage-only-when-necessary/235718>\
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**Created:** [August 14, 2007, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stretch-stage-only-when-necessary/235718 "2007-08-14T07:07:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stretch-stage-only-when-necessary/235718/1 "2007-08-14T07:07:20Z")

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I put together [this little photo gallery](http://www.jiggzy.com/photography/) tonight, and overall, I’m content with how it works, but there’s one thing that bothers me - unless you have a super big monitor, the scroll bar is always at the side of the screen.

Is there a way to keep the stage relatively small (550px or so) until a vertical picture comes up, and then stretch the swf to say 800px? I’ve used full screen Flash before, but when I do that, instead of forcing the scroll bar to appear, it just cuts off the image.

Note: Yes, this problem could be solved simply by not doing it in Flash, but eventually I plan to append this to a portfolio of sorts (which will be in Flash) and don’t want to make it an external link.

Thanks.