What is the largest screen boundry of the dynamic elements of a (Flash) SWF

Question

I am dealing with SWF's that someone else made, mostly pure animation and graphics from the Flash Authoring tool (no programmatic activity, no data or net access).

How do I tell how much space on my page to give them? How can I tell the bounds of their dynamically moving elements?

Answer 1

I remember a limit of 2880x2880, but I think that was in authoring.

What you can do is

• get the dimensions of the loaded content in the INIT handler of your loader
• use SWFReader or a similar class to get the swf width and height, in case the designer didn't add a mask in his main timeline to keep elements from displaying outside the stage.