[Flashcoders] Expandable Flash Banners

[Karl DeSaulniers]

Can anyone point me in the right direction for expandable banners? To be honest I am looking for an example or some script I can just use, but would take tut or doc links as well. Expandable banners with inset video to be exact. Also, correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't Javascript handle the expansion part?

TIA.
Best,

Karl

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[Eric Dolecki]

http://www.flashperfection.com/tutorials/Resize-flash-dynamically-with-javascript-and-actionscript-12792.html

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[Roger Persson]

Hi Karl,

Don't know if this is the case for you but if your banner is to be
hosted by a network like Google Ads or AdForm they will have some
specific code you need to use for the expanding to work.

Best regards
/roger

[Karl DeSaulniers]

Oh!? I am not sure if they are being hosted with those systems. I will need to check with the client. Thanks for the heads up. Do you happen to have a link to these specs? If not I'm sure I can google it up. Thanks again.

Best,
Karl

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[Paul A.]

If you don't have control of the html page where the ad is being hosted,
there will be a flash API supplied with whatever ad system is being used
to support such ads, so a generic approach won't be suitable in such cases.

Essentially you make a Flash design for the larger size, but mask it to
fit the smaller add display. When you wish to expand the ad you can
expand the mask to cover the larger area after calling the advertising
API to tell it to expand the HTML element that encloses the flash area.

I did this last year and it worked via a series of callbacks, but will
vary according to the ad system being used.

Paul

[Karl DeSaulniers]

Thanks everyone who commented.
I got them done and they are working well. Client loves them.
Now we will see if the code I wrote will work for the hosting company.
Thanks again for the advice!

Best,

Karl DeSaulniers
Design Drumm
http://designdrumm.com