Re: FLASH: bitmap resizing

[John Dowdell]

At 1:01 PM 10/3/0, Seán Daly wrote:

>i thought i had read something somewhere, but can't find it now.

>I was wondering if there was any way to have bitmaps in a movie NOT scale

>with the rest of the content when the browser is resized. it just gets

>surrounded by space or something?


The Shockwave Player does this. It deals with bitmaps natively, and has a

variety of options for runtime scaling.


(The Macromedia Flash Player is optimized for streaming vector

interactivity... it can use bitmaps, but it's not a catch-all media engine

like Shockwave is. Bitmap resizing can be a signficant concern.)


jd






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