# Checking updated movieclip width?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/checking-updated-movieclip-width/290474>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 15, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/checking-updated-movieclip-width/290474 "2009-06-15T15:27:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![SolBrad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@SolBrad](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SolBrad)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/checking-updated-movieclip-width/290474/1 "2009-06-15T15:27:52Z")

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Hi all.

Quick question, if you have a movieclip nested inside another clip, and you scale the parent clip, how do you see what the nested clips new sizes is?

so i have a circle(50x50) movieclip nested inside a container clip.

i scale the container clip, and then trace the nested circles width and still get a width of 50, the question is… how do i get the size of the scaled circle, and not its original size?

attached is a very basic example.

any help would be greatly appreciated