Sizing/Hiding a Flash movie?

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pixelmech - 03 Jul 2008 16:41 GMT

Hello,

We are going to have a little flash application running on another electronic
device. A user will interact briefly with the flash app, and then it needs to
somehow disappear, yet still be available to the OS of the device so it can be
brought back up.

I'm no expert in Flash, so I'm not quite sure what the best way to do this is.
It must be done from within Flash itself - so for example I hit some final
control within flash, and the app disappears. Some thoughts we had were

- resize it down to 0/0 in size
- hide all layers except one layer filled with a flat color that is 100%
transparent

At some point the device will make a call back to the flash app and it would
then need to reverse whatever we do and "reappear".

Suggestions on how best to do this?

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whodeee05 - 03 Jul 2008 19:44 GMT

I know you can use a GREAT third party app called ZINC to control the size of the final flash exe. Using this, inside flash you could call a function to minimize the exe.

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pixelmech - 03 Jul 2008 19:50 GMT

Do you mean this?

http://www.multidmedia.com/software/zinc/

Is there no way to do this without 3rd party tools?

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whodeee05 - 03 Jul 2008 19:57 GMT

yeah, ZINC is a great app and allows you to get the functionality of a desktop
application. Another way to possilby do it is by creating a AIR application in
flash. I don't know that much about AIR as of yet, but that could be another
thing to look into, an it doesn't require a 3rd party app. You may also be
able to do it using a BAT file executed through the FSCommand in flash.

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