Animation page size

[charliescoffee]

Is there a limit to the size of an animation? I’m doing a kind of slide show animation; I set the page size at 1230x480 pixels. When I preview the animation it looks correct, but when I preview it on the .xar web site file, it comes out only about 60 pix high.

[Scotty]

How are you incorporating in the Xar file? The placeholder holding the SWF file I beleive determines the size.
Jim

[Egg Bramhill]

Charlie, you've created the placeholder on a group of photos. A placeholder will be substituted by the placeholder content, so there's no point having a placeholder of images.

Delete the images and use the rear rectangle behind them as your placeholder.

Your swf file page is 1230 x 480 pixels so the placeholder needs to be this size as well.

[sadicus]

i tried to make a tiny flash graphic, but Xara gave errors if i went lower than
48px x 48px

[Egg Bramhill]

The page size is limited to 48pix (half an inch) but the animation can be smaller. In the Animation Properties/Flash Options set "Area to Save" to "Drawing". Here's a 10 x 10 pixel animation created this way.

[charliescoffee]

Egg, & others,

Thanks. I used the images in the event a visitor didn’t allow flash or something else happened with it, there would be something to look at. So, I took the photos & background, made a bitmap copy of all at the correct size and everything works properly. It seems to me that I had another similar .swf before with differences in the place holder size, also using grouped jpeg’s, without the same result, but to be honest I can’t recall the specific instance. In any event, this solution works just fine. (Sorry to be so long getting back, I was out all day.)