<div>Thanks.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have preceded the call to setSize with my own code to calculate an appropriate size based on the available space so that I can get the same effect as constrain.</div><div><br></div>
<div>JK </div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 March 2012 08:26, Julian Tenney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Constrain is a method of ICON, but the MOVIE is not a movieclip, so you should use setSize()</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kemp Johnathan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 07 March 2012 17:22<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Constraining a movie</span></p></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
According to the Xerte reference constrain() is a method of the icon class, so I would have expected it to be available to a movie icon.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">However I noticed that in the code for the textVideo page the code uses</p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">movie.setSize(800,434);</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </p></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">rather than</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">movie.constrain(800,434);</p></div>
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">I tried using constrain as I wanted to ensure the movies aspect ratio was not affected by a change of size and it appeared to have no effect.</p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Is constrain() not available as a method for movie icons?</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Kind regards</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Johnathan</p></div>
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