[Xerte] Re: Constraining a movie

[Kemp Johnathan]

Thanks.

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.

JK

On 8 March 2012 08:26, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Constrain is a method of ICON, but the MOVIE is not a movieclip, so you
> should use setSize()
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Kemp Johnathan
> *Sent:* 07 March 2012 17:22
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Constraining a movie
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> 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.
>
> However I noticed that in the code for the textVideo page the code uses
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> movie.setSize(800,434);
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> rather than
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> movie.constrain(800,434);
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> 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.
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> Is constrain() not available as a method for movie icons?
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> Kind regards
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>
> Johnathan
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