I'm a newbie to Director (Mac OSX/MX20004) and have a few
questions/difficulties.

1) After publishing, contents outside of stage are visible; also, the color
of the stage expands to cover the area outside of it, encompassing the entire
monitor. How do I keep the contents outside of the stage hidden and keep the
color of the stage from going beyond its borders?

2) can a weblink be in a projector?


thanks for the help!

Open the project and click on the stage somewhere that is not on a
sprite. In the Property Inspector, on the Display Template tab, there
is a checkbox for resizable. Unchecking that will make sure that you
can not stretch the window beyond the stage boundaries.

While you are there, you may be interested in the Titlebar options. If
you want to see the titlebar, make sure it is visible... if not, uncheck
the visible box.

In File, Publish Settings, on the Projector tab, there is a fullscreen
checkbox. Uncheck it and the program will play in a normal window as
opposed to the fullscreen one you are seeing.

Thanks Mike. Followed your steps which took care of the sprite outside of the
stage. it's now invisible; but, the stage color still expands beyond the stage
and covers the entire screen. any other adjustments?

J S 23 wrote:
> the stage color still expands beyond the stage
> and covers the entire screen. any other adjustments?


That's the fullscreen thing I mentioned in my post. Uncheck fullscreen
and it will not fill the screen

[q]Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
J S 23 wrote:
> the stage color still expands beyond the stage
> and covers the entire screen. any other adjustments?


That's the fullscreen thing I mentioned in my post. Uncheck fullscreen
and it will not fill the screen
[/q]

Yeah, it was unchecked from the very start. that's what's been confusing.
i've tried it several times, but to no avail. i don't get why it won't turn
off the background color. i also tried unchecking "animate in bg," but that
doesn't help either.

J S 23 wrote:

> Yeah, it was unchecked from the very start. that's what's been confusing.
> i've tried it several times, but to no avail. i don't get why it won't turn
> off the background color. i also tried unchecking "animate in bg," but that
> doesn't help either.

Hi,

Take a look at this page:
http://www.deansdirectortutorials.co.../projector.htm

It may help explain some of the projector settings.

Here's some explanation regarding what your situation

File > Publish Settings - Projector tab
Full Screen - This fills the projector to your entire monitor area. It does not
stretch to fill. If your stage is 800x600 and monitor 1024x768, the 800x600
stage will be in the centre (assuming Centred options are selected) and the
space around the window making up the remainder of the 1024x768 size will be
filled by a solid colour. This solid colour will be the Stage colour. If this
option is unselected, you wont have the surrounding area filled, instead you'll
see the desktop in the 'overflow' area?

Animate in Background - this just means that if you have a projector playing and
you then open another application so make give it the focus, the projector will
still play. If the option is unchecked, when you switch to another application,
the projector will pause.

Does that clarify things?

Your second question - yes, you can have a weblink from a projector. The link
will open the default browser and try open the URL

regards
Dean

Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast
http://www.deansdirectortutorials.com/
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au
email: d.utian@unsw.edu.au

Here's some explanation regarding what your situation

File > Publish Settings - Projector tab
Full Screen - This fills the projector to your entire monitor area. It does not
stretch to fill. If your stage is 800x600 and monitor 1024x768, the 800x600
stage will be in the centre (assuming Centred options are selected) and the
space around the window making up the remainder of the 1024x768 size will be
filled by a solid colour. This solid colour will be the Stage colour. If this
option is unselected, you wont have the surrounding area filled, instead you'll
see the desktop in the 'overflow' area?


thanks Dean - should've also mentioned that I want to have the stage centered
in the browser window, but unchecking "full screen," and selecting any other
option puts it in the upper left hand corner. these "no-brainer" type
operations are taking more of my time than the difficult functions of my
project - go figure.

Here's some explanation regarding what your situation

File > Publish Settings - Projector tab
Full Screen - This fills the projector to your entire monitor area. It does not
stretch to fill. If your stage is 800x600 and monitor 1024x768, the 800x600
stage will be in the centre (assuming Centred options are selected) and the
space around the window making up the remainder of the 1024x768 size will be
filled by a solid colour. This solid colour will be the Stage colour. If this
option is unselected, you wont have the surrounding area filled, instead you'll
see the desktop in the 'overflow' area?


thanks Dean - should've also mentioned that I want to have the stage centered
in the browser window, but unchecking "full screen," and selecting any other
option puts it in the upper left hand corner. these "no-brainer" type
operations are taking more of my time than the difficult functions of my
project - go figure.

> thanks Dean - should've also mentioned that I want to have the stage centered
> in the browser window, but unchecking "full screen," and selecting any other
> option puts it in the upper left hand corner. these "no-brainer" type
> operations are taking more of my time than the difficult functions of my
> project - go figure.

So, have you managed to work it out?

If you want the SW to centre in your browser, it's an HTML formatting change.

regards
Dean

Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast
http://www.deansdirectortutorials.com/
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au
email: d.utian@unsw.edu.au

So, have you managed to work it out?

If you want the SW to centre in your browser, it's an HTML formatting change.

regards
Dean

Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast
http://www.deansdirectortutorials.com/
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au
email: d.utian@unsw.edu.au


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Thanks again Dean.
Yes, unchecking removes the color from outside the stage, but I'm still
confused about centering it in the browser. Is the HTML formatting done in
Director or am I placing the .dcr within a web page which contains the HTML?