Resizing the browser

[sirhoff]

I saw this site in another post and I've noticed this becomming the trend in photo galleries.

http://www.simonladefoged.com

When you drill down and open up a photo, the photo resizes with the browser while the rest of the movie elements expand without resizing. I'd love to know how this is done.

On a side note, it used to be impossible to resize a photo cleanly in Flash. Is something being done here or is it just improvements in Flash players?

Thanks!

[jumpinjax]

A simple way would be to go into flash publish settings, then click the HTML tab. Where it says "dimensions" select "percent" in the dropdown box and enter 100% for both width and height.

EDIT: I think I may of misunderstood slightly. Do you mean how to make it smaller /if/ the user resizes or how to make the browser resize smaller? I thought the latter, but the site you gave link to does not resize my browser when viewing photos.

[Ray Beez]

I HATE sites that do this! It is the user's perogative to maximize the browser if they feel like it! Don't piss off your users!

[sirhoff]

When I resize this site it scales the photo to fit the browser and expands the header and footer witout resizing sot that they are always at the very top and bottom.

[jumpinjax]

that would be done using actionscript to anchor certain objects to places. For example:

For bottom footer:

_root.bottomfooter._y = Stage.height
_root.bottomfooter._x = Stage.width / 2