Adobe has announced the Open Screen Project http://www.openscreenproject.org/, an initiative dedicated to driving consistent experiences across all devices including mobile phones, personal computers, consumer devices and more

Specifically, this work will include:

• Removing restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications
• Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player
• Publishing the Adobe Flash® Castâ„¢ protocol and the AMF protocol for robust data services
• Removing licensing fees – making next major releases of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR for devices free

I wonder how long it will take to see various open source flash players?!

More info here http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/

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I had a recent requirement to load a flex app into another using the Loader control, but I was stuck at trying to get the loaded swf to stretch to the available space.

The problem came as the Loader is a component and not a container and therfore doesnt know about percentages or flex, so it cannot size content in the way we would expect it to. There are 2 workarounds, yet i will always take the later as it allows the size to be dynamic.

There were 2 possible workarounds, but I would generally stick with the later for the sake of dynamic sizing:

1. You can set the height and width of the loaded app to be pixel values (i.e width=”800″ height=”600″).

2. You can add the following code to a script block in the root of the loaded app:


function getPreferredHeight()
{
if(_parent)
{
return _parent.layoutHeight;
}
else
{
return super.getPreferredHeight();
}
}



function getPreferredWidth()
{
if(_parent)
{
return _parent.layoutWidth;
}
else
{
return super.getPreferredWidth();
}
}


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