# as2 oop - component - authoring time resize

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**Created:** [July 25, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as2-oop-component-authoring-time-resize/233654 "2007-07-25T19:11:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as2-oop-component-authoring-time-resize/233654/1 "2007-07-25T19:11:44Z")

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hello all

im building components and im having a hard time… i find that the info concerning the creation of custom components is scarce at best… or im blind

im relying on

- [http://www.person13.com/articles/components/creatingcomponents.html](http://www.person13.com/articles/components/creatingcomponents.html) (which dates a bit)
- [http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/06/06/index4a.html](http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/06/06/index4a.html)
- [http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/06/11/index2a.html?tw=multimedia](http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/06/11/index2a.html?tw=multimedia)
- and on advanced actionscript components by antonio de donatis (friends of ed)

im trying to create something simple: i have a bouding box for my component, with a 16x16 px square in the middle. at authoring time, when i resize the component either via the property inspector for width or height, or on the stage with the free transform tool, i want the square to stay in the middle of the component.

im not sure what to do