# Changing movie clip symbol width

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-movie-clip-symbol-width/312828>\
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**Created:** [August 13, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-movie-clip-symbol-width/312828 "2010-08-13T14:16:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![pizzadude223](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@pizzadude223](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pizzadude223)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-movie-clip-symbol-width/312828/1 "2010-08-13T14:16:48Z")

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I searched the forums, but couldn’t really find anything that matched my specific needs. I have a movie clip symbol that is your character, I also have a movie clip symbol that is named fuel and it represents the fuel you have left. I tried this in your character:

if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {  
yspeed -= ypower;  
fuel.\_width -= 50;  
}

as a little bit of code. fuel.\_width -= 50; is what I’m really interested in. yspeed-= ypower; is just my movement, which works. So why doesn’t my fuel width change? Thanks.