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Meet Positions the source file at the item region’s upper-left corner, and uses the source file’s height and width
proportionstoscale thesourcefile. Theplayerapplication scales thesourcefilesothatone of thesourcefile’sdimen-
sions is equal to one of the region’s dimensions, and the other dimension is within the region’s boundaries. The player
application uses the item’s background color to fill the blank space.
Scroll Positions the source file at the item region’s upper-left corner and plays the source file at its encoded size. The
player application adds horizontal or vertical scroll bars if the source file is larger than the region.
Slice Positions the source file at the item region’s upper-left corner, and uses the source file’s height and width
proportionstoscale thesourcefile. Theplayerapplication scales thesourcefilesothatone of thesourcefile’sdimen-
sions is equal to one of the region’s dimensions, and clips the other dimension that exceeds the region’s boundaries.
To set the background color of regions
By default, all item regions are transparent. That is, a transparent region is not visible in the player application until
an item begins playing in the region. You can set a background color for an item’s region.
1 Select the item in the Layout tab or Timeline Editor.
2 In the Media Inspector, select BG Color, and then click the color field to select a color from the Color palette.
See also
“To set a presentation’s size, title, and background color” on page 487
Setting the layering order of overlapping items
If items in a SMIL presentation overlap and play simultaneously, you can set the layering order to specify which item
plays in front. To set the layering order, you enter z-index values for the items. An item with a larger z-index value
appears in front of an item with a smaller value. The root-layout region always appears behind all items and doesn’t
have a z-index value.
When setting z-index values, consider the following:
• If you don’t select the Z-Index option, GoLive doesn’t enter a value for z-index in the presentation’s source code.
If you select the Z-Index option but you don’t specify a z-index value for an item, GoLive assigns a default value
of zero.
• It isn’t required that you assign a continuous sequence of values, such as 1, 2, 3, and so on. You can have gaps in
the sequence, such as 1, 3, 7, which is useful if you want to later add overlapping items in layers between existing
items.
• You can use a negative value (such as -3) for a z-index to send an item behind other items. For example, an item
with a z-index value of -3 appears behind an item with a zero or positive value.
• Items that don’t overlap can have the same z-index value. If items overlap and have the same z-index value, the
item that begins later appears in front. If the overlapping items also begin at the same time, the item that is at the
bottom of the item list in the Timeline Editor appears in front.