# Flash scaling and dimensions

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-scaling-and-dimensions/14065>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 21, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-scaling-and-dimensions/14065 "2003-02-21T16:00:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![procrasturbate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@procrasturbate](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/procrasturbate)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-scaling-and-dimensions/14065/1 "2003-02-21T16:00:42Z")

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Hey there.  
I’ve got a little bit of a problem:

I need a flash movie to work on various screen resolutions, windows sizes, etc. So, while I would like the flash player to stretch as much as the window allows, I do not want the movie to scale, since that generally distorts the contents (I have a lot of small-sized text in there that would become unreadable, for example).

The stage.height and Stage.width don’t appear to work when I publish the movie with both the dimensions (instead of “match movie”) as “100%” and scale as “no scale.”

Any ideas? Perhaps a good way to get the exact size of the flash movie?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-scaling-and-dimensions/14065/2 "2003-02-21T16:16:33Z")

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why do you want it to scale… but not scale? to stretch… but not stretch… seems contradictory… ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-scaling-and-dimensions/14065/3 "2003-02-21T16:22:46Z")

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I want the contents to stay in their original size. Say I have a movie clip inside that’s 100x50. I want it to stay at 100x50 no matter how much the flash movie itself stretches or shrinks. Think of a windows dekstop - you can change resolutions, but the icons on your desktop will always have the same size, pixel-wise. That’s the effect I need.