# Flash animation as Flex component

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-animation-as-flex-component/285856>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 7, 2009, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-animation-as-flex-component/285856 "2009-04-07T10:25:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-animation-as-flex-component/285856/1 "2009-04-07T10:25:26Z")

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I have a simple Flash animation of an object spinning around it’s centre with no x, y movement nor scaling.

It plays fine in Flash but when I convert the symbol to a Flex component and instantiate it in mxml, the animation scales up and down as it spins.

What gives?