| Stage Object | Flash 6 |
| access to a movie's size, scale settings, and alignment |
Placement of the movie in the Flash Player.
Pixel height of the available Flash Player display area or the author-time document height, depending on the value of scaleMode.
Dictates how the movie is sized, relative to the Player.
Boolean; determines the items displayed in the Flash Player's contextual menu.
Pixel width of the available Flash Player display area or the author-time document width, depending on the value of scaleMode.
Registers an object to receive onResize( ) events.
Cancels event notices for the specified listener.
Occurs when movie is resized.
The Stage object represents the characteristics of the Flash Player's runtime display area. It tells us the current dimensions of the movie, notifies us when the movie changes size, and provides control over global movie settings, such as which options appear in the Player's contextual menu (brought up via right-click on Windows or Ctrl-click on Macintosh). Mostly, the Stage object is used to adjust the visual layout of a movie when the browser or Standalone Player is resized.
Note that Stage is a predefined object, not a class. Its properties and methods are accessed directly, as in:
trace(Stage.width); // Displays the width of the movie
MovieClip._height, MovieClip._width
