# Help with \_parent!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with--parent/171182>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 2, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with--parent/171182 "2005-12-02T15:25:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![foofighterz2002](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@foofighterz2002](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/foofighterz2002)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with--parent/171182/1 "2005-12-02T15:25:22Z")

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Hi,

this is my first post, most of the other problems i have had have been already answered so thanks for that! This is my first proper flash site so excuse my bad coding!

Here’s my problem, i have a movie which has other submovies contained within it. One of these movies is a menu movie containing buttons, i want these buttons to control the content in the main movie.

I tried using:

```auto
on(release)
{
	_parent.photos._xscale="50";
}

```

in order to reduce the width of the movie ‘photos’ but to no avail.

[Here](http://www.lamedesigns.co.uk/newsite.fla) is a link to the .fla as it’s starting to even confuse me now!

Totally appreciate any help that anyone can give me

thanks, foofighter