how to make flash screen saver always fit screen?

[mrk13]

hi.
i'm trying to make a screen saver just for the pleasure of myself and a few close friends in my team. i've searched everywhere but have not found an answer to the following problem. although i use this command:

fscommand("fullscreen", true);

in the first frame of my movie, the screen saver does not fit the screen all around as it should. yes, it does scale to a certain extent, but only according to the dimensions of the original fla, that is, it'll stretch only horizontally or vertically until the stage limit leaving a gap either to the top or sides... and this won't do as my friends have different stage dimensions as me.
so. can someone please tell me what i'm missing? i'm using flashforge to produce the .scr. i've tried with trial versions of a couple of similar converters, but the problem persists. must be something with my .fla settings.
wise words will be much appreciated here!

[Ask The Geezer]

Try publishing the movie at 100%. Then publish an html page.

Now, on Windows, right click the Desktop, in the popup, select Properties. In that popup, select the Desktop tab. Click the Browse button and find that html page and set it as the desktop background.

This will put the movie as the wallpaper, and it will work. You can have a full site working on the wallpaper if you want.

You will have to remove the borders on the html page. Use some css in the head tag;

<style type="text/css">
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
</style>
</HEAD>

[mrk13]

hey, that is neat & practical! gave me a few new ideas... thanks, geezer!

but how about my original problem: wallpaper-swf's are cool, but i really need to make a screen saver from swf to fit screens in all sizes and dimensions. i seem to be half way there... my swf refuses to scale dimensions in screen saver. it fills the screen as long as it reaches either horizntal OR vertical limits, and then leaves gaps either to the top-bottom or sides, depending on the swf's original dimensions. veeeeery annoying.

so help? please?

[Ask The Geezer]

So publishing at 100% didn't make it go to the edges with that css added to the page?

What dimensions are the stage?

[mrk13]

well, yes it did, but - you're talking about html page? and wallpaper? i did manage to make a wallpaper out of the html page, as you adviced, and it scales just perfectly.

but my question was not about wallpaper, it was about screen saver. when choosing a screen saver in screen options, there's no 'browse' or nothing to allow me to choose an html page for a screen saver.... i mean a screen saver that kicks in when the computer has been idle for a while, not a wallpaper that stays at the desk top al the time. so, ummm...?

[mrk13]

...i forgot to answer your question: my screen is 1280 x 800. of course i can make the fla stage size so that it'll fit my screen perfectly as screen saver. but if my friends have, for example, 1024x768, the dimensions change and there'll be gaps. not nice.

i'm using flash 8, but as the flash forge that i have doesn't like flash 8, i'm making the fla in flash mx2004 and publishing settings in flashplayer7. i think that that's not where the problem is, though... as i said, i've experimented with other .scr converters that do support flash 8, with same results...

[Ask The Geezer]

OK, well, I've never made or used a 'real' screensaver, other than the wallpaper. I suppose you could code a flash movie to do something else after 10 minutes of no mousemove, and go to your animation, and the rest of the time, just sit on frame 1 where a static image would be, but I haven't tried that either.