# Centering movieclips

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**Created:** [July 21, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/centering-movieclips/292929 "2009-07-21T00:19:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![gpdesigner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@gpdesigner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gpdesigner)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/centering-movieclips/292929/1 "2009-07-21T00:19:38Z")

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Yet another center movieclip thread . . . I know you love it.  
I did a few searches trying to find an answer to my issue, . . . i get close to the answer but it isn’t quite my same problem, so let me run this by you.

My project is making a webpage that has flash games on it.

I downloaded 10 flash games from the net, (.swf only ) and have them in a folder. On my stage, main timeline, I loaded a movieclip container, . . this is your basic load MC set up . . . Anyhow, with thumbnail images of the individual games set as buttons, I am loading in the games from the folder into my clip container. . . this is working like a charm, but I have 1 issue, the game clips are not all the same size so they wind up outside the target area. . .

I don’t want to resize the games, but I do want to at least center them on the stage.  
Main roadbloack:  
I don’t have the .fla so I can’t get into the flash file to target co ordinates. Not really sure if that will do the trick anyway.  
I can’t seem to find out how to alter the registration points of each swf as this could be an option as well. . so I feel like I am screwed . . .  
anyone have any ideas?  
There is no AS of value anywhere other than the

on (release) {  
unloadMovieNum(1);  
loadMovieNum(“whatever.swf”, 1);  
}

that I have on the buttons.  
Thanks in advance  
gp