Here are the 3 var I had to change:

In the AC_FL_RunContent script:

‘movie’, ‘gallery?menuName=xml/MenuAng.xml&pictureName=xml/Pictures.xml’,

In the param tag:

and in the embed tag:

src=”gallery.swf?menuName=xml/MenuAng.xml&pictureName=xml/Pictures.xml”

Hope this might help other people!

Haha, you’re welcome! Glad I could help.

Assuming you have a movie clip with the instance name box, the following would adjust the width and height of that movie clip to half the width and height of the Stage:

stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;

stage.addEventListener(
  Event.RESIZE,
  resizeHandler
);

function resizeHandler(evt:Event):void {
  box.width = stage.stageWidth / 2;
  box.height = stage.stageHeight / 2;
}

The example was incredibly simple, but if you altered the values in the tags and set the width of a MovieClip to be equal to Stage.width, then when you opened the page in the browser, the MovieClip was resized appropriately.

In fact that is exactly what I’d like to accomplish with AS3 because I have already written a function that resizes my UI on a FullScreenEvent so in essence all the code required is already there, I just need to figure out how (or where) to get the correct values from.

I am going to begin playing with the AS3 equivalents right now. If you’d like a copy of that (incredibly rudimentary) example, feel free to e-mail me and I will send it over.

Thanks for the input though, I’ve been racking my brain for a week now and as of yet, no one else on the net has been able to provide any input at all.

Definitely, let me know about the example you put together with your co-worker! I’m curious to see what you found. My hunch is that you’re referencing the read-only Stage.width and Stage.height properties, which indeed return the width and height values of the Stage at the current moment. If you used pixel values in the width and height attributes of your <object> and <embed> tags, then those Stage properties will reflect the values of those attributes. On the other hand, it’s just as possible to use percentage values, which will allow the SWF to resize at runtime in response to the user resizing the browser. In that sort of scenario, those Stage properties (and their AS3 equivalents) will give you different numbers, depending on the current size of the SWF. In that way, you can tell the size of the Stage (i.e., the SWF), but it may or may not match the numbers specified in the HTML.

Check out the Stage class in either version of ActionScript to see about using the onResize event. That will allow you to adjust the SWF’s width and height as you please — with pixels or percents — and then respond to those values at runtime.

Specifically, yes I do want to know if I can read the width and height attributes and until this afternoon, I’d agree with you that It was not possible to read them in any version of AS. Contrary to that a co-worker and I came up with an incredibly simple example that shows the swf being aware of those values in AS 2.0. Of course Im home now and the example is at work.

Regardless, what I’m after is a way to resize my swf before runtime. I’ve created a widget that will be part of an online library where clients can customize and embed their widgets for their own use. I’d like to allow them to create a widget of any size.

Do you know of any routes that will make this possible?

FlashVars data (or query string data) enters the SWF via name/value pairs fed separately from the actual embed code. I think you’re asking if it’s possible to read the height and width attributes of the <object> and <embed> tags, right? If so, that isn’t possible in any version of ActionScript — again, unless you pass it in as a FlashVars variable.

AS2’s Stage.width and Stage.height properties are now stage.stageWidth and stage.stageHeight in AS3. You can reference any DisplayObject instance, including the main timeline, to get your stage reference, and from there, check the properties mentioned. Does that help?

In AS 2.0 you could set the values in the embed code and then use Stage.height and Stage.width to read them in…. this has changed in AS 3.0 and I have tried desperately to find a solution.

Know of anything? Cheers.

In ActionScript 3.0, the Sound class doesn’t feature a stop() method like it does in AS2. To stop sound in AS3, you have to instantiate a SoundChannel instance and associate your Sound instance with that. Like this:

var s:Sound = new Sound();
var chan:SoundChannel;
iconButton.addEventListener(
 MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
 function(evt:MouseEvent):void {
  s.load(new URLRequest(root.loaderInfo.parameters.audio));
  chan = s.play();
 }
);
stopButton.addEventListener(
 MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
 function(evt:MouseEvent):void {
  chan.stop();
 }
);