# Anyone know how to attach a movieclip without it being visible...?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyone-know-how-to-attach-a-movieclip-without-it-being-visible/228714
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 10, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyone-know-how-to-attach-a-movieclip-without-it-being-visible/228714 "2007-06-10T21:13:43Z")
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### Author: ![Charleh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Charleh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Charleh)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyone-know-how-to-attach-a-movieclip-without-it-being-visible/228714/1 "2007-06-10T21:13:43Z")

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When I attach a movieclip I scale it almost immediately to the right size but there’s always a flicker as the clip appears at full size before it gets a chance to be scaled down… I scale literally right after the call to attachMovie… any ideas?