How do you export the defined area only?

**Theia** · 05-11-2009, 06:02 AM

When i export a movie clip or use the publish method, I always get all the objects that's in the stage area - outside the defined white area.

I only want the objects in the work area (the white square) to be visible...

Can someone help me??

**samac1068** · 05-11-2009, 08:25 AM

You actually are. It all depends on how you're viewing it....

If you're playing the SWF file, you can expand the borders of the player and view all objects not on the stage. If you view the same file through a browser using a HTML file, this extra area should be hidden.

The best method to avoid this would be to either, avoid storing any symbol outside the border set by the stage dimensions or if you must store your symbols out there, change their visible properties to false, until you need them. You can also reduce the alpha to 0 which make the object still available, but just not visible.

Run your project from the HTML file and see if you can still see the symbols outside of the stage.

**Theia** · 05-12-2009, 04:34 AM

Thank you for the answer. Just a few questions still:

Often you use the swf file and not the html - will I then run into problems with the other objects showing?

And finally, how do I set the visibility to false?
Do I have to convert all the objects to movie clips or??

Again, thank you for your time

**samac1068** · 05-15-2009, 01:40 PM

Just about all objects in the DisplayObjectContainer (visible on the stage) has a visible property. You can set it by using (as 2.0) object._visible = false; or (as 3.0) object.visible = false;.

The HTML file usually remains the same, so while testing, I'll run the SWF file since my machine has the necessary exeutable to open the SWF in a window. Many user's computer cannot open the SWF without using a browser. Does that make sense?

**mgason** · 05-16-2009, 02:01 PM

You could just put a box the size of the whole stage on a layer then make that layer a mask layer for all other layers

**plainman007** · 05-25-2009, 02:23 PM

Yes the last method mentioned above is the easiest and simplest. I figured this out recently to use for the website im designing and it works perfectly. Aslo i seem to be facing a similar but not exact same kind of problem though. I seem to get a small white (or whatever color the browsers background is) border around my flashmovie that ive published as HTML for a website. I dont know if ive got any settings wrong in the publish to HTML settings

**mgason** · 05-25-2009, 04:15 PM

No you do not have anything wrong in the publish settings, you can not fix it there.
You need to go into the html using whatever editor you use and set the margins for the html page to zero.
They default to something like 10 pixels.

Mark

**plainman007** · 05-26-2009, 10:47 AM

I opened up the HTML file in notepad but couldnt find any command called margin.
Where do i put this into the html text please ?

Thanks

**mgason** · 05-26-2009, 11:00 AM

Inside the body tags, color should be there already make it whatever you desire

PHP Code:


<body bgcolor="#ffffff" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
</body>

**plainman007** · 05-26-2009, 11:27 AM

Hi Mark,

It worked perfectly.
Thanks for your help.

Regards....

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