help! restricting animation size to stagesize of moviefile within another movie

[martin rees]

Hi,
I have placed a small animation (from a seperate swf-file) in a bigger movie. How can I restrict the animation you can see to the stage-size of the smaller movie?
(At the moment you can also see the elements, which are outside of the stage)

Thanks for any help!
Martin

[Flash-db]

If your publish settings are set to something like 100% x 100% when you embed it in HTML - you will see animations outside of the area of the Flash movie you are publishing.  By changing the publish settings to an exact amount say 500 px by 400 px you will not see any of the animations outside of the published area.

If you have to publish to a percentage setting - then you can put a large White (or whatever the background color is) graphic surrounding your flash movie.  (Outside of your working area - in the grey area surrounding the work area).  Place this on the top layer - so all other layers beneath it can not be seen.  This will make it so that all animations and graphics outside the working area can not be seen.

If you are loading a seperate movie into a larger movie using LoadMovie - you can Load the Movie into an existing MovieClip (that can be blank) - So that the Loaded movie will take on the constraints of the movie you loaded it into.