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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Apr 21, 2005 6:24PM

On 4/22/05, <EMAIL REMOVED>
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>>
>
>>> >1. Is the resizing only to fit the size of the current
>>> >graphical window in FLASH or can the user say they want bigger
>>> >text in the current size window?
>
>>
>
>>> >Font resizing is available either through implementation within the
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>> context sensitive
>
>>> >("right click") menu depending on how the movie is exported - or more
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>> often through
>
>>> >the inclusion of font resizing controls within the movie interface itself.
>
>>
>> Also note the possibility of providing access to the zoom feature of Flash
>> Player through HTML links in the parent HTML document. Have a look at
>> http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/Monash2005/js_zoom.html for a
>> basic example of controlling zoom and panning via the keyboard. Note that
>> the technique is dependent on Javascript.


The really scary thing is that I came across a lot of designers so far
who prefer surpressing the "ugly right click menu", as it allegedly
poses a security problem with Flash applications.

-- Chris Heilmann
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