[Laszlo-dev] SOLO Swf Resize while Preserving Aspect Ratio

[Aaron Shepherd]

I have a rather complex application that we are deploying in SOLO mode that I would like to automatically resize with preserving the aspect ratio.  I don't want to use constraints as not all components (like tabs, tabsliders, etc) auto-constrain font sizes, etc. I would like to set the sizes manually (at least of the canvas and outer most views), and have the flash player take care of the scaling as it supports scaling with aspect preservation. This allows complete control of the application look/feel and allows me to develop at a higher resolution (like 1280x1024 to get the ratios correct), but still deploy at any size client's browser is configured.  (With special note to the 640x480 screens, which make most modern applications look terrible). I also need the application to look good with any size or aspect of window. So... Why is it that the SWF files generated from Laszlo do not respect the aspect scale defaults of the flash player? Other applications/swf files that are pure flash do so. Is there a way to have the generated solo swf file respect the scale attribute of the flash player? Do I need to modify the Java sources used to compile the swf files? I'm not shy about changing the underlying laszlo source or swf generation pieces, and would be happy to repost the mods to support this functionality. A very simple example is: [canvas width="1024" height="768" proxied="false"] [view width=”${parent.width}” height=”${parent.height}”] [text]Here is some text[/text] [/view][/canvas] When run as an embedded swf, or even a standalone swf, the aspect ratio specified is not respected. Things I have tried with no effect: -         Modified the embed tags in my deployment HTML to have scale=showall. -         Modified the base xslt stylesheets provided in the distro from scale=noscale to scale=showall -         Modified all the html/js files with respect to any and all scale= tags   I know that most applications would dynamically stretch to fit a page and utilize more real estate for functional areas, and in fact we have other applications that work in that manner.  But since this an end-user consumer oriented application (think TIVOish), I need the application to look/act/feel the same regardless of the deployment environment.   Thanks in advance for any insight into this question. -Aaron

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