# External SWF Sizing Issues

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-swf-sizing-issues/270874>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 15, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-swf-sizing-issues/270874 "2008-09-15T18:42:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr\_Nic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Mr\_Nic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mr_Nic)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-swf-sizing-issues/270874/1 "2008-09-15T18:42:13Z")

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I know that there are a million threads on this and I looked through a lot of them, but I guess because there are so many, people just stopped answering them and/or I don’t understand. With that said, here is my problem and any help would be greatly appreciated.

I’m building a Flash website, it’s my first one and I’ve basically learned what little I know from Googling things. I have CS3 but I’m using AS 2 because it’s easier for me to do buttons that way.  
I have my main movie and then I have an external SWF being loaded into a blank MC called content. The code I used for the button is:

on (release) {  
loadMovieNum(“Graphics.swf”,this.content);  
}

I couldn’t get it to work in the Test Movie but when I put it in a webpage and tested it, it tests ok, it opens a new window and displays the SWF. BUT it displays it in the size of the browser window, not the size it was created in (800 X 600) nor the size of the main movie (also 800 X 600). It also shows the area outside of the stage where I have a few things move into the stage. The size of the movie clip container shows to be W: 0, H: 0, X: 0, Y:0. I thought that maybe the width and height were wrong but it won’t let me change them.

I pretty much suck at Action Scripting but I’m a pretty quick learner, I just need some help. For an issue that it looks like a lot of people have had, it seems like there isn’t an easy answer.

Thanks in advance.

Nic