CF / Flash Question - Dynamic Menu need Dynamic EMBED AND PARM tag height and widths

Question pertains to right naviagation of this page http://dev.fusionapps.com/wboe/dsp_home_page.cfm

Will open multiple questions if this is not an easy fix.

Wondering if there is more dynamic way of using cold fusion and flash to handle the output height and width of the swf movie.  Right now if I publish the movie clip at 200 x 450 pixels, there leaves room for two more buttons to be entered in the swf movie size.  But the right nav is always changing so if I enter a third it won't display becuase the movie size is too small in the html embed and param tags.   I could easily export the movie again with a taller height like 600 pixels but that changes the layout of the webpage because content in a lower <TR> gets pushed way down in the site and leaves an empty space.  I need to do something like this but can't figure it out.

Webpage calls SWF but waits to get width and height somehow before displaying --->  SWF calls CFM file to get cats and subcats from database then CFM outputs cats and subcats to flash ---> Flash builds the cats, subcats, and adds spacer when necessary --->  Then I need a way to add the total height and width up in flash  ---> Output these two values to the embed and param tags of the webpage that's calling the SWF.  Is this possible?


Right now I have the calling cfm:

<CFIF findNoCase("msie",HTTP_USER_AGENT)>

      <!--- Initialize swf file which calls /wboe/flash/right_nav/dsp_menu_categories.cfm to get category header,
              subcategory names and urls from database then builds buttons dynamically with a default height of 21 pixels
              and expands to compensate for multi-line buttons.
             
              There is a 3 pixel spacer between each category and subcategory.
             
              There is an insert of 50 pixels between each category in flash.
             
              If the total height of category headers, subcategories buttons and spacers is over 450 pixels,
              buttons outside of the 450 pixels will not display, need to increase the two height settings below to fix.  --->

      <OBJECT
             CODEBASE="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
             WIDTH="200"
             HEIGHT="450"
             ID="wboe_right_nav" ALIGN="">
                   <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="/wboe/flash/right_nav/wboe_right_nav.swf">
                   <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=best>
                  <PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false>
                  <PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent>
                  <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>
                  <EMBED src="/wboe/flash/right_nav/wboe_right_nav.swf"
                        menu=false
                        quality=best
                        wmode=transparent
                        bgcolor=#FFFFFF
                        WIDTH="200"
                        HEIGHT="450"
                        NAME="wboe_right_nav"
                        ALIGN=""
                        TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
                        PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
                  </EMBED>
      </OBJECT>
<CFELSE>

Non-Flash Content

</CFIF>


Here's the dsp_menu_categories.cfm that gathers the data from the database

<cfcontent type="text/plain">
<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="yes">
<!--- query to get the main categories --->
<cfquery datasource="flashmenu" name="get_cats" dbtype="odbc">
      SELECT catid,category
      FROM cats
</cfquery>
<!--- initialize the category list --->
<cfset cats="">
<!--- initialize the counter --->
<cfset count=0>
<!--- loop through the categories query --->
<cfloop query="get_cats">
      <!--- append the category to the category list --->
      <cfset cats=ListAppend(cats,category,"|")>
      <!--- now query to get the sub categories and url links --->
      <cfquery datasource="flashmenu" name="get_subcats" dbtype="odbc">
            SELECT subcategory,url
            FROM subcats
            WHERE catid=#catid#
      </cfquery>
      <!--- initialize the subcats list --->
      <cfset subcats="">
      <!--- initialize the urls list --->
      <cfset urls="">
            <!--- create another loop for the subcategories --->
            <cfloop query="get_subcats">
                  <cfset subcats=ListAppend(subcats,subcategory,"|")>
                  <cfset urls=ListAppend(urls,url,"|")>
            </cfloop>
      <!--- output the subcats and the urls --->
      <cfoutput>
            &subcats#count#=#subcats#&urls#count#=#urls#
      </cfoutput>
      <cfset count=count+1>
</cfloop>
<!--- output the cats --->
<cfoutput>
      &cats=#cats#&loaded=1&
</cfoutput>


And here's the flash actionscript that builds the menu:

data_var = new LoadVars();
data_var.path = this;
data_var.onLoad = function(ok)
{
    if(ok){
         this.path.menuGeneration(this);
    } else {
         trace("CFM PAGE MISSING");    
     }
};

function menuGeneration()
{
    var startY = 1, depth = 0;
    var temp = data_var.cats.split("|");
     
    // Set Font Styles
      // textFont is embedded Futura Md BT from Flash
      // Verdana is rendered as html font
      // new TextFormat(font, size, color, bold, italic, underline, url, target, align, leftMargin, rightMargin, indent, leading)
    var style1_fmt = new TextFormat("textFont", 14, 0x000000, false, false, false, "", "", "center");
    var style2_fmt = new TextFormat("Verdana", 12, 0x000000, true, false, false, "", "", "left", "3", "5", "");
    for(var i = 0; i < temp.length; i++){
          // Set a spacer in between categories
              if(depth > 0){
               startY += 50;
               trace("ADDED 50 SPACER")
          }
         // Create empty movieclip and set the depth
             var mc = this.createEmptyMovieClip("main" + depth, depth);
         depth++;
         // Set Stroke Color and Opacity
             mc.lineStyle(1, 0x912211, 100);
         // Set Fill Color and Opacity
             mc.beginFill(0xEDD593, 100);
         // Draw a box
             mc.lineTo(198, 0);     mc.lineTo(198, 20);     mc.lineTo(0, 20);     mc.lineTo(0, 0);
         // Stop fill
             mc.endFill();
         // Create text box
             mc.createTextField("text_txt", 1, 0, 0, 198, 20); //name, depth, x, y, width, height
         // Text box parameters
             mc.text_txt.selectable = false;
         mc.text_txt.embedFonts = true;
         mc.text_txt.text = temp[i];
         mc.text_txt.setTextFormat(style1_fmt);
         mc._x = 1;     mc._y = startY;
         startY += mc._height + 1;
         var subText = data_var["subcats" + i].split("|");
         var subLink = data_var["urls" + i].split("|");
         for(var j = 0; j < subText.length; j++){
              var sc = this.createEmptyMovieClip("sub" + depth, depth);
              depth++;
              sc.createTextField("text_txt", 3, 0, 1, 198, 20);  //name, depth, x, y, width, height
              sc.text_txt.multiline = true;
              sc.text_txt.wordWrap = true;
              sc.text_txt.autoSize = "left";
              sc.text_txt.selectable = false;
              sc.text_txt.embedFonts = false;
              sc.text_txt.text = subText[j];
              sc.text_txt.setTextFormat(style2_fmt);
              var hgt = sc.text_txt._height + 2 > 20 ? sc.text_txt._height + 2 : 20;
              sc.lineStyle(1, 0x912211, 100);
              sc.lineTo(198, 0);     sc.lineTo(198, hgt);     sc.lineTo(0, hgt);     sc.lineTo(0, 0);
              sc._x = 1;     sc._y = startY;
              startY += sc._height + 1;
              var lc = sc.createEmptyMovieClip("click_btn", 2);
              lc._x = lc._y = 1;
              lc.lineStyle(0, 0, 0);
              lc.beginFill(0xEDD593, 100);
              lc.lineTo(197, 0);     lc.lineTo(197, hgt - 1);     lc.lineTo(0, hgt - 1);     lc.lineTo(0, 0);
              lc.endFill();     lc._alpha = 0;
              lc.link = subLink[j];
              lc.onRollOver = function()     {     this._alpha = 100;               };
              lc.onRollOut = lc.onDragOut = function()     {     this._alpha = 0;               };
              lc.onPress = lc.onDragOver = function()     {     this._alpha = 100;               };
              lc.onRelease = function()          {     this.getURL(this.link);          };
         }
    }
    delete data_var;
}
data_var.load("/wboe/flash/right_nav/dsp_menu_categories.cfm");