Flash movie -- controlling visible area?

[ZenBlender]

I would like to be able to control the visible area of a Flash movie. Let's say the SWF is sized at 700x500. I need a way to set the object/embed tags to 700x500 and then put the whole thing in a container where I can control the visible area dynamically, without having to reload the page. I tried putting the SWF's tags in a div and setting its min-width, min-height and overflow properties but in Firefox the results were inconsistent. I could get it to crop the Flash movie properly, but only with overflow:auto, which gives me some unwanted scrollbars.

What's the best way to do this? Thanks so much! :)

[duncanhall]

I don't fully understand what it is you are trying to achieve, but it sounds like it's probably best done inside Flash itself. Can you elaborate on what you're trying to do?

[ZenBlender]

I can't do it inside of Flash because the size of the window reserved for Flash does not change once it is loaded. I am looking for a way to dynamically (i.e. after loading) adjust the visible area of the Flash movie. Let's say the movie is 700x500 pixels but I want to only display a 500x500 pixel region of it initially -- the Flash movie will only use 500x500 of the embedding page's content area. Then, through javascript/css I would adjust this visible area to the full 700x500 so the entire movie is visible without having to reload.