SWFLoader that unfortunately sets Stage.scaleMode

In a Flex project I have been working on, I've received a new SWF asset to incorporate. No problem usually. However, this asset is setting the stage's scaleMode to showAll. OUCH. This has the effect of this: Flex app loads and looks fine, SWFLoader is later called and the asset is loaded as the SWFLoader's source. The entire stage is scaled up at least 3x the size. On the complete event for the loader I go ahead and set the scaleMode back to noScale, but then the application jumps back to looking correct. The problem is the jumping up then back again.
I am not able to have the asset rebuilt, so I am stuck with what I have. How can I work around this from Flex. Since the stage is shared, this SWF keep dorking everything up.

Depends on what the asset really is. If you only need a symbol from it, you can try embedding just those symbols and that might skip the code that calls showAll.
If you need the whole SWF because you want the timeline but don't care about what it actually does, you can deploy it on a different domain and then it won't have access to the stage. It will throw a security error but only folks with debugger players will see it.
Another option is to find out where code that changes scaleMode is. If it is in a particular class in AS3 in then SWF, you can try creating a custom version of that class in your main app. You version of the class will supercede the one in the SWF.
Another option is to find out when the code changes scaleMode. It might be that you can double-check on enterFrame or render events and set it back before the player actually draws it in the wrong scale mode.
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

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Thanks for that pointer. I tried playing with finding the (what I would call) "natural" size of the app, as you describe. When laying out the UI, I always set the viewer to 800x600. I removed the app's width/height, added some trace statements and here was the output (stageWidth is stage.stageWidth & "width" is stage.width):
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If I set the app's width/height to 548x596, this somewhat worked, however it caused proportions on individual components to be off (of course they would scale with these off proportions).
So that got me thinking. The app has a viewStack as it's main "base", which was defined having width/height = 100%. I changed that to an absolute width/height of 800x600. Without setting an app width/height and running, I then got:
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Now, getting the same job done in AIR is a different story. I immediately went to my AIR project and tried, but it still suffers from the same (~1/4 corner of the app) showing up, albeit it tries to scale up with the window resize. My guess is there is something different with the timing/order of the stage/display elements here, as the code itself (other than it's a windowedApplication") is exactly the same. Without any app width/height (but setting the viewStack width/height to 800x600), the trace gives me:
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