User Guide

scaleMode 971
• #showAll (default for Director movies prior to version 7)—Maintains the aspect ratio of the
original Flash movie cast member. If necessary, fill in any gap in the horizontal or vertical
dimension using the background color.
• #noBorder—Maintains the aspect ratio of the original Flash movie cast member. If necessary,
crop the horizontal or vertical dimension.
• #exactFit—Does not maintain the aspect ratio of the original Flash movie cast member.
Stretch the Flash movie to fit the exact dimensions of the sprite.
• #noScale—preserves the original size of the Flash media, regardless of how the sprite is sized
on the Stage. If the sprite is made smaller than the original Flash movie, the movie displayed in
the sprite is cropped to fit the bounds of the sprite.
• #autoSize (default)—This specifies that the sprite rectangle is automatically sized and
positioned to account for
rotation, skew, flipH, and flipV. This means that when a Flash
sprite is rotated, it will not crop as in earlier versions of Director. The
#autoSize setting only
functions properly when
scale, viewScale, originPoint, and viewPoint are at their
default values.
This property can be tested and set.
Example
The following sprite script checks the Stage color of the Director movie and, if the Stage color is
indexed to position 0 in the current palette, the script sets the
scaleMode property of a Flash
movie sprite to #
showAll. Otherwise, it sets the scaleMode property to #noBorder.
-- Lingo syntax
property spriteNum
on beginsprite me
if _movie.stage.bgColor = 0 then
sprite(spriteNum).scaleMode = #showAll
else
sprite(spriteNum).scaleMode = #noBorder
end if
end
// JavaScript syntax
function beginsprite() {
var stgClr = _movie.stage.bgColor;
if (stgClr = 0) {
sprite(this.spriteNum).scaleMode = symbol("showAll");
} else {
sprite(this.spriteNum).scaleMode = symbol("noBorder");
}
}
See also
scale (Member)