"David Stiller" <stiller-NO-SPAM-@quip.net> wrote in message
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>> Not sure if this will work. havent tried it, but maybe :
>>
>> Stage.width = yourWidthValue;
>> Stage.height = yourHeightValue;
>
> Heh, why offer sample code that you A) haven't tried and/or B) have
> little confidence in? Potentially not very helpful, right? Keith may
> have tried that himself (it won't work) ... so now where are we? ;)
>
> Okay, I'm a fan of the documentation. Fire it up. Hit that F1 key.
> :) Let's step through this.
>
> Here's an important term: "class". It means all sorts of things in
> English, if you stop to really think about it, but here it refers to a
> "blue print" that defines an object in ActionScript. Movie clips, text
> fields, numbers, strings, even the Stage, can all be described -- defined,
> rather -- by their namesake classes. For a real eye-opener, look up the
> "MovieClip class" entry in the ActionScript Language Reference. You'll
> see everything you can do with a movie clip (its methods), all its
> characteristics (its properties), and all the things it can react to (its
> events). Powerful, powerful, powerful information! Plus sample code.
>
> In this case, we're interested in resizing the Stage, so look up the
> "Stage class" entry. You'll see Stage doesn't have any methods, so it
> doesn't really *do* anything, but it does have properties, including
> Stage.height and Stage.width -- which you'll see right away are read-only
> (you can't set them), so the suggested code above doesn't do anything.
> You'll also see that Stage has an event, which is what solves the issue
> here.
>
> Note that the onResize event is fired (that is, occurs) on two
> conditions: A) when the Stage's scaleMode property is set to "noScale"
> and B) when the SWF is resized.
>
> So, Keith, to answer your question ... no, the Stage cannot be resized
> via ActionScript, but *when* the Stage is resized (such as when your HTML
> specifies 100% height and width and the browser is resized), you'll know
> it, and then you can use the Stage.height and Stage.width properties to
> acount for the new size in your other code.
>
> See this Moock blog entry for details.
>
> http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000021.html
>
>
> David
> stiller (at) quip (dot) net
> Tackling the ActionScript Language Reference
> http://www.quip.net/tutorials/
>
>

> Not sure if this will work. havent tried it, but maybe :
>
> Stage.width = yourWidthValue;
> Stage.height = yourHeightValue;

> Sometimes the list 'overflows' the stage. Is there some way to
> use scrollbars in Flash so that when the list overflows the stage
> area the scroll bars appear and allow the user to scroll the list?