Resizing Dynamically Loaded swfs using swfloader

In my current project, I am using RobotLegs and a parent application to load in "modules".  However, I don't use modules, because frankly, I don't quite get why I should.  Instead, I have separate swfs that I can load, and pass information to them, if necessary.  The biggest frustration that I have is that when I resize the parent application, my child, which is a loaded swf, doesn't know it's stage has been resized, and thus doesn't resize itself.  To fix that, I tried a few different options, including resizing the loader, the system manager, the loaded application, the screen, everything!!!

The problem I was running into is that my loaded swf was getting it's size clipped.  This was unacceptable.

For example, if I loaded my swf into my app, if the window was sized at 700x400 (w x h), if I resized my window to something smaller, the controls inside the loaded swf would follow accordingly. However when I resized the window larger than 700x400, the controls would get clipped by an auto-assumed max size of the loaded swf's stage.

GRRRRRRR!!!!!!

So I have lost countless hours of sleep, including the time it's taking me to post this incoherent message.  But I feel I must share about resizing a loaded swf without scaling.   Right now I have some jerkiness in the movement, but it forces a scale and resize of the loaded swf's width and height.

I avoid using the _loadedSwf.scaleContent and _loadedSwf.maintainAspectRatio.  These together were fun to figure out, but the end result was that my controls were scaling, and I didn't want that.  If I turned off scaleContent, then nothing would resize.  If I turned off aspect ration, then things started looking wonky.

because I had added my _loadedSwf to a SkinnableContainer, and that container was getting resized, I wanted my _loadedSwf to update to that container's size.  On initialization I do use a method inside _loadedSwf.  And to use that, I have something like the following:

var loadedSM:SystemManager = SystemManager(_loadedSwf.content)
loadedSM.application["updateDimensions"](container.width, container.height);

This worked great for the initial setup, but resizing still didn't work.  I won't recount the countless hours I've tried to make it work.  Needless to say, and the reward for reading this post is to see that to make this work, I did the following on the resizeMyApp(), called by the parent application whenever an EVENT.RESIZE_EVENT is dispatched:

_loadedSwf.content.width = container.width;
_loadedSwf.content.height = container.height;
Object(_loadedSwf.content).setActualSize(container.width, container.height);
loadedSM.application["updateDimensions"] (container.width, container.height);

I got the idea on page 48 of this manual (Thank you Matt Horn!!!)

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/loading_applications.pdf 


These last 2 lines seem a bit hazy to me, but if I remove one of them, then the resizing doesn't work.  I do have some jerkiness that I need to work out, but the overall resizing now commits correctly.  I think there is something in the updateDisplayList() that I've missed, but somehow this makes the call work.