Before you can successfully include a Shockwave file, you need to know one small bit of information??”the
dimensions of your movie. Dreamweaver automatically reads the dimensions of your Flash file when you
insert the Flash movie object. Unfortunately, if you??™re incorporating a Shockwave movie, you must enter the
dimensions in the Shockwave Property inspector.
To find the width and height of a Shockwave movie, load it into Director and then choose Modify ??? Movie ???
Properties to open the Property inspector. The dimensions are located on the Movie category of the panel.
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It is essential to know the movie??™s height and width before you include it in Dreamweaver-built
Web pages. During the development phase of a Dreamweaver project, I often include the
movie dimensions in a filename, as an instant reminder to take care of this detail. For example, if I??™m working
with two different Shockwave movies, I can give them names such as navbar125x241.dcr and
navbar400x50.dcr. (The .dcr extension is automatically appended by Director when you save a movie
as a Shockwave file.) Because I consistently put width before height in the filename, this trick saves me the
time it takes to reopen Director, load the movie, and choose Modify ??? Movie to check the measurements in
the Movie Properties dialog box.
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