Detect canvas-sizes (NOT screen-sizes)

[Ruben]

A warm hello to all, am I the first person to post a thread here??

Anyways, here's the situation:

If you'd have a flash-movie (sized 100% by 100%) embedded in a html-file and in the flash-movie there'd be a textbox displaying Stage.width and Stage.height then when I view the movie the text would be "976 x 753"...

Now my question is, could I get that values by detecting the canvas-sizes using javascript?

To clear things out: I'm NOT looking for flashmovies passing through values to htmlfiles. I only want to know if there is a way for javascript to check what the height and width of the canvas are, NOT the whole screen or anything, just the sizes of the space where my website is displayed...

- Ruben

[Timmee_3Styler]

Ruben - http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s...d.php3?t=50541

around the same principles?

[tg]

uhmmm, if your swf is set to 100%X100%, wouldn't that be the screen size?

[Ruben]

Originally Posted by Timmy_3Styler

Ruben - http://www.actionscript.org/forums/...ad.php3?t=50541

around the same principles?

Thanks Timmy, but I'm not looking for scaling and sizes of 100% and stuff...I know how to do that...I'm looking for a way to read the px-size of the stage using javascript...

But thanks anyways

Originally Posted by tg

uhmmm, if your swf is set to 100%X100%, wouldn't that be the screen size?

Well, the problem is that (for some weird-arse reason) FireFox won't read

width = "100%"
height = "100%"

...so I was wondering if I could see how many pixels the "100%" would mean for the height and width...because FireFox CAN read the sizes in pixels...

Thanks anyway

- Ruben

[tg]

right, gothcha, i don't do much with 100%, so i don't so if this sounds kinda sarcastic, its not meant to.


so if you use javascript to find window.innerHeight, and window.innerWidth, then that might give your the same size as your stage (but i don't know for sure). innerWidth/height should work for nav4+, so might work for mozilla/firefox. but it won't work for ie.

[Ruben]

Originally Posted by tg

right, gothcha, i don't do much with 100%, so i don't so if this sounds kinda sarcastic, its not meant to.

so if you use javascript to find window.innerHeight, and window.innerWidth, then that might give your the same size as your stage (but i don't know for sure). innerWidth/height should work for nav4+, so might work for mozilla/firefox. but it won't work for ie.

Thanks alot man! I can't test it because I haven't got firefox installed, my boss does, so I'll have to wait untill he comes online...but thanks anyway

So while we're at the browser-topic:

I got this piece of javascript from kirupa to check what browser the user's using:

function checkBrowser() {
var IE = document.all;
var oldNS = document.layers;
var newNS = !document.all && document.getElementById;
var opera = window.opera;
if (opera) {
  window.location = "opera.html";
} else if (oldNS) {
  window.location = "oldns.html";
} else if (newNS) {
  window.location = "newns.html";
} else if (IE) {
  window.location = "ie.html";
  };
};

I was wondering: what browsers do oldNS and newNS stand for? And is there a way to check if someone is using firefox??

Thanks alot for reading/replying - Ruben

[tg]

just a guess, i'm not positive, but i'ld say <= net5

[Ruben]

Originally Posted by tg

just a guess, i'm not positive, but i'ld say <= net5

I lost you, come again?

- Ruben

[tg]

hehheh.

oldNS=all netscape browsers older than (and including) netscape 5.
newNS=all netscape/mozilla browsers based on netscape code newer than netscape 5 browser

again... i'm not positive about the number, but i think mozilla is based on the netscape 6 gecko engine, so thats why i figured 5 as the cuttoff for old.... maybe its 6 ... not sure.

[Ruben]

Oh, glad you could clear that one out for me, thanks heaps...

So no-one knows how I can check wether or not the user is viewing through FireFox??

- Ruben

PS. I keep asking, don't I?