stretch movie to max size

[Frank DeRosa]

I've developed a page that stretches to fit the browser that contains it. Is it possible to make a movie do this, but stop expanding at a certain size? This way it makes good use of space in a small browser/monitor, but won't get so big that embedded images stretch and distort to ugly porportions in big browsers/monitors.

Thanks!
Frank

[Mitya]

Anyone who's ever got their target paths wrong when trying to change the positional/size properties of an MC will know that, by default, changing the _x and _y changes the properties of the whole movie.

So I imagine that, if you had the below code on your main timeline or on a button, it would change the size of a movie, providing you left the width and height fields blank in the HTML for the Flash object.

_width = "value"
_height = "value"

I don't know how you can tell someone's resolution or screensize, perhaps there's a java function to do this, then pass the value of that function to Flash which can then resize itself accordingly and no higher than a set level.

Hope some of this helps.

[Frank DeRosa]

That's essentially the same as

_root._width
_root._height

right?

That last part is what interests me. I could find those values and set them to an upper bound, but when? I don't want to waste processing checking the size every frame or second, and I don't want to check the size once on load and then have it re-size with the browser to be too big.