If you're making a flash clip take up the entire browser window, as can be necessary on occasion, in most browsers throwing in height="100%" works fine. Not so with firefox. Firefox interprets the doctype strictly, which disables the internal elements from setting the height of the window (100% of something in a div, will just... Continue Reading →
Resize html embed area when Flash stage size changes
I've been building an app where the size of the flash area is going to change beyond the bounds of the browser window at certain points - but I do not want to use flash scrollbars, as you're already in a browser and as a user I much prefer the browsers scrollbar over dinky wee... Continue Reading →
Image scaling ‘jittery’ or pixelated in Flash when tweening
If your jpgs, pngs and gifs are scaling all jittery in Flash, hard-cutting to pixels and appearing to shimmer or bounce when you tween the image you can fix that really easily: find the image you're tweening in the library, right-click, select its properties and choose 'Allow Smoothing'. That'll sort you right out. A co-worker of... Continue Reading →