External SWF gets resized

I'm using the code below in a movieclip in Flash CS3 to
import an external swf into my project. However, every time I
upload the site to the server (
http://www.kimandbrett.com),
when I click on Gallery, the Gallery.swf is stretched out & the
image is too big. I tried uploading the same exact thing to
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~nglase/FlashSite/index.html
& it works just fine. The site that is not working is hosted by
GoDaddy. Are there any server settings that might be causing it to
behave differently?
Thanks,
Natalie

stage.StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
/* put this line in all your code */
The entire Flash application is fixed, so that it remains
unchanged even as the size of the player window changes. Cropping
might occur if the player window is smaller than the content.

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Thanks for checking this out.
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assistance is written for Flash8, but I'm using CS3. To try to
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A ton of Flash users visit Adobe’s we site every month wondering about how to load an external SWF file from within another SWF.
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How do I resize the loaded SWF?
How do I set its X and Y location?
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Sample files for the above TechNote. A set of 3 FLA and 3 corresponding SWF files, including a parent SWF and 2 SWFs that the parent loads.
Help > AS3 Developer’s Guide > Loading an external SWF file
Help > AS3 Developer’s Guide > Loading display content dynamically
Loading multiple external SWFs within a main SWF – CreativeCow.net forums
Video tutorial: ActionScript 101 – Episode 6: Adding named objects to the Stage. By Doug Winnie. An example of how to add the loaded external asset to the Stage and modify its location or other properties.
Video tutorial: Preloading in ActionScript 3.0. By Lee Brimelow. A slightly more complicated example, showing how to make the parent SWF display information about the progress of loading the external SWF.
Tutorial: Loading and unloading SWFs - FlashAndMath.com
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SWF to SWF Communcation via ActionScript 3.0 (by kglad)

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NedWebs
You now seem to want to get rid of the swf once it has loaded
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in the swf itself that triggers its removal in its last frame. The
following might work...
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Unfortunately I couldn't get this to work. I placed it on the
last frame of the SWF to be called - is that right?
I am not sure I am doing it correctly...

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Using MovieClipLoader I want to load external SWFs - and it
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everything - that's the problem.
For example, external swf's stage dimensions are 100x150, but
it has some
timeline animation (some objects scrolling through the stage,
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text animation that sometimes goes off-stage, etc..).
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all these objects
that were bouncing outside this 100x150 area (the stage of
banner). Even
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(because of these
off-stage objects that are now visible). This way I'm getting
positioning
problems, too.
var mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
mcl.loadClip("banner.swf", holder);
mcl.addListener(listener);
holder._x = Stage.width/2 - holder._width/2;
holder._y = Stage.height/2 - holder._height/2;
Thanks in advance,
B.

Hi kglad,
Does doing that takes only into account width and height of the stage, or also considers off stage items (as in the initial question)?
I am also looking at this issue and we can't have all the content providers modify their pre-existing flash applications to be displayed in the appropiate scale. We are looking to any of the following:
find a way to get adobe air/flash to not consider the off stage elements on the width/height we set to the movie.
find a way to get the stage size from the external movie and use that to auto calculate the resize needed.
any other alternative that allows to have the same end result, which is loading up the external content at the size we specify and displaying well. We can actually hide content outside the stage, but we still need to know the appropiate scale / size to apply to the movie so what's visible matches the are where we want to show the content.

External SWF gets resized

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