ActionScript 2.0 :: Make A SWF Self Aware Of It's Own Size?
Jan 23, 2007
I was working on something or other today and a question came to me. Would it be possible to make a swf know how big it is, weather embedded into an HTML page, or running in flash player.
So pretty much, I want it to, if it's playing in the stand-alone flash payer, if you stretch out the window vertically, it would know
The first thing I thought of was keeping track of _root._xscale or _root._width, but they didn't work.
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