# Disabling movie clips via \_xscale

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disabling-movie-clips-via--xscale/207854>\
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**Created:** [November 22, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disabling-movie-clips-via--xscale/207854 "2006-11-22T04:10:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![dvaidya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@dvaidya](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dvaidya)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disabling-movie-clips-via--xscale/207854/1 "2006-11-22T04:10:13Z")

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Okay- I came up with this wacky way of doing something- because I don’t know the right way. It’s working. But can anyone think of problems with this. :

I have some MC’s and they have buttons and other MC’s within them. (dynamically loaded). I don’t want them to be seen or the buttons enabled until my startbutton is pressed. I tried  
mc.enabled = false  
mc.\_alpha = 0

and it didn’t work. (If anyone knows why, I’d be curious to know the answer)

So I did mc.\_xscale = 0

and that seems to do the trick. They aren’t visible and there’s no fear of anyone pressing any invisible buttons. It feels a little funny though- like there will be problems with this method. What to do you think?