# addChild improperly scaling?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/addchild-improperly-scaling/277159>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 8, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/addchild-improperly-scaling/277159 "2008-12-08T19:42:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![substance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@substance](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/substance)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/addchild-improperly-scaling/277159/1 "2008-12-08T19:42:46Z")

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So I have a ‘frame’ that has a height of 400 and a ‘picture’ with a height of 400 as well.

For some reason when I add the picture as a child of frame some weird scaling happens where it looks like it’s shrinking the frame yet when i trace it’s height it’s something like 2000 height.

Any idea what’s going on?