Great effect, need help

http://www.fireflytutorials.com/flash-tutorials/fullscreen-flash-movie/

This is a great tutorial. Go through it step by step and you should be good. If you want to limit the resizing of the image based on the size of the browser window, pay special attention to the "if" statements.

Enjoy:)

one thing this site doesn't do, but the hm site does, is limit how far you could shrink the flash file down before it forced the browser to use scroll bars. try stretching the wrecker's site window to be about 100x100, the background and everything shrinks/squishes ungracefully.

a way around this is to include some javascript to enforce a minimum window size rule so that you can preserve the integrity of the site's minimum boundaries. so say, you know the site looks weird when seen below 400x300, force the browser to put scroll bars up accordingly under minWidth and minHeight.

like so:

function onWindowResize( agentaction ) {
var minWidth = 980, minHeight = 600;
var myWidth = 0, myHeight = 0;
if( self.innerHeight ) {
myWidth = self.innerWidth;
myHeight = self.innerHeight;
} else if( document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientWidth ) {
myWidth = document.documentElement.offsetWidth;
myHeight = document.documentElement.offsetHeight;
} else if( document.body && document.body.clientWidth ) {
myWidth = document.body.clientWidth;
myHeight = document.body.clientHeight;
}

if( myWidth < minWidth ){
myWidth = minWidth;
}
if( myHeight < minHeight ){
myHeight = minHeight;
}

// update content div size
var contentDiv = document.getElementById("flashcontainer");
contentDiv.style.width = myWidth + "px";
contentDiv.style.height = myHeight + "px";
}

"flashcontainer" is the name of the layer itself

i shamelessly poached this from hm.com... there i said it

Thanks! This is a great tutorial. One thing that it doesn't include however is scaling a background proportionally. I've thought that a solution might be to set the mc width to match the browser width and then to set the scaleY to equal scaleX. How would that be written in this case? I can't seem to get it to work.

resizeListener.onResize = function () {
setProperty(bgGradient_mc, _width, Stage.width);
setProperty(bgGradient_mc, _height, Stage.height);
var proportional:Number = (Math.round(bgGradient_mc.scaleX));
setProperty(bgGradient_mc, scaleY, proportional);
}

or,
setProperty(bgGradient_mc, scaleY, bgGradient_mc.scaleX);

or,
bgGradient_mc.scaleY = bgGradient_mc.scaleX;

Is there an easier way?
Thanks.
JB)

It's still a little funky but this has seemed to do the trick. In my Flash8-naivety I'd confused scaleX for _xscale...

bgGradient_mc._yscale = Math.round(bgGradient_mc._xscale);

JB)