}
A better option would be to place both mc01 and the attachedMovie inside a container clip
_that does not get stretched._ Stretch mc01 inside it and then say \_root.containerClip.attachMovie(…
If I say anything confusing just ask me to explain better.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2003, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-problem-whit-loading-image-to-mc/21358/3 "2003-05-21T09:46:25Z")
I understand the first part, but I did not the second part were you say " a better option is".
Another question , if you don´t mind is, the objective for this is to have load movie and not attach movie clip, but when i change to load movie , the loaded swf erases the mc that streches, and is loaded to the center of the mc.
thanks
🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-problem-whit-loading-image-to-mc/21358/4 "2003-05-21T13:31:58Z")
loadMovie works a little differently from attachMovie. For the type of thing you are doing loadMovie is probably the way to go.
When you use attachMovie, you have to specify a MovieClip to be the new clip’s parent, when you use loadMovie you have to specify a clip to \* be replaced by\* the loaded clip. So what you can do is to have an empty clip waiting to be replaced. If this clip is named content\_mc, then when your movie is loaded, you can refer to it by the name content\_mc, and it will have all the properties that content\_mc had when it was replaced.
The main point of the second thing I was saying was that you can use a clip within a clip just to organize your symbols.
Draw a square and convert it to a symbol. Then create a new symbol with nothing in it and drag it on top of the square. Name the square stretch\_mc and the emptyclip content\_mc, then select them both and convert to symbol. Name it contentframe\_mc. Now your clip structure is organized like this:
\>contentframe\_mc
-\>stretch\_mc
-\>content\_mc
When you apply the stretching script to contentframe\_mc.stretch\_mc, contentframe\_mc.content\_mc will be unaffected stretchwise, and when you loadMovie into contentframe\_mc.content\_mc (which is empty) it will be “over” the stretched rectangle, but it will not wipe it out.
Then on your main stage you have just one clip contentframe\_mc which you can duplicate to contentframe2\_mc etc, and each content\_mc inside will still be centered in the stretch\_mc that belongs to it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-problem-whit-loading-image-to-mc/21358/5 "2003-05-21T14:23:17Z")
it worked, is this what I really wanted, is not new but i think this as some potencial.
Thanks for helping me out,
i live in portugal and i started to work whit flash 1 year and 6 months ago, I take 1 course, but here the courses in flash are so elementar, what book do you think is better, not to begginers.
thsnks a lot
fausto
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-problem-whit-loading-image-to-mc/21358/6 "2003-05-21T14:41:46Z")
i have using flash MX by Michael Hurwicz and i find it very helpful and not too elementary. I knew javascript a little before I got the book though, so I was able to get through a lot of it pretty quickly.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-problem-whit-loading-image-to-mc/21358/7 "2003-05-21T14:42:42Z")
kirupa has some good ones too
[http://www.kirupa.com/store/flashbooks.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/store/flashbooks.asp)