Expert: Andre Hickman - 12/2/2008

Question
hello i have a very small question to ask you. When exporting the animation to SWF what settings should I do to be able to view the film in full screen without seeing the elements outside the artboard/workspace. also is it possible to change the color around the animation clip that is usually white to black. thank you.

Answer
Hey Helina,

The swf movie itself is not the problem.  What you are exporting, is an HTML file that embeds the flash movie (if I am interpreting your questions right)

If you were to just click on the swf file, there would be nothing around it.  The only thing that would show would be the movie with at thin frame around it.  

If you are clicking the html document and it is opening up in internet explorer, then if you are trying to use this as a webpage or something, then you are going to have to know how to change the HTML code to get the desired effect.  Changing the background color is easy...just open the html (or htm) file in notepad, and change where it says "background-color: #ffffff" to "background-color: #000000"  (ffffff is the hexadecimal number for white and 000000 is the hex number for black)

To get an html browser to open without the header and navigation buttons can not be done directly.  It would have to be opened from another page, like a pop-up, and the parameters for opening the new window would have to be coded in that pages html.  This type of coding and implementation is a bit beyond what I can answer here though...

I hope this helps.  Feel free to ask more if you need.

Cheers,
Andre'