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Get Flash movie dimensions in TextMate

Textmate and FlashChances are if you’re a seasoned web developer at one time or another you’ve needed to insert Flash into a website but you have no idea what the dimensions of the movie are.

Previously there were basically three options for solving this problem:

  1. Go directly to the person who created the flash and ask them the dimensions.
  2. Open the .fla file in Flash (if you own a license) and get the document dimensions yourself. Chances are you’ll end up getting a cup of coffee at the same time because Flash takes so long to start up.
  3. Shistily try to take a screen shot of the open Flash movie and measure the dimensions in Photoshop, usually ending up 1 or 2 pixels off and forcing you to go back to option one or two.

Or… browse to the .swf file in Finder and drag it into your TextMate file window. Wala! Now you have the flash insertion code right along with the exact dimensions of the movie. No more annoying hassles.

posted in: productivity, software, web development

This post was published on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 2:09 pm

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Stephen Lewis

June 18, 2008 at 12:27 pm

Now that is a damned fine tip.

It may even usurp the “drag file from Finder to Safari ‘Choose File’ button” tip (http://tinyurl.com/5cb8go) as my personal favourite.

Thanks for that,
Stephen