SWFLoader scaleContent doesn't scale

Question

I'm attempting to scale a whole Flex 2 application designed
to be 1024x768 to a slightly smaller size to fit an 800x600 kiosk
screen using SWFLoader. My first attempt was the following which
has the effect of creating a window with the correct width of 800,
but the content is not scaled and is clipped on the right edge. In
the vertical direction, the flash player window is still 768 pixels
high with the content again unscaled in that direction to. The only
thing that seems to work has been to use only scaleX and scaleY
without the scaleContent="true". But even in this case all is not
right because when the application tries to read
mx.core.Application.application.width to position some components,
it returns a value something like 1172 which is neither the
original nor the scaled width. I would expect it to be the unscaled
width 1024.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="vertical" xmlns:kiosk="org.cancer.kiosk.*">
<mx:SWFLoader source="Kiosk.swf" scaleContent="true"
width="800" maintainAspectRatio="true" />
</mx:Application>
Any suggestions appreciated
Thanks,
Barry Tolnas
American Cancer Society
[email protected]

Answer 1

try setting the width and hight on an Event.COMPLETE