# How to keep a movieclip centered?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-keep-a-movieclip-centered/264672>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 28, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-keep-a-movieclip-centered/264672 "2008-06-28T12:40:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![blackcoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@blackcoma](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blackcoma)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-keep-a-movieclip-centered/264672/1 "2008-06-28T12:40:53Z")

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In this site:  
[http://www.duffy.com/](http://www.duffy.com/)

If you play with the size of the window of the browser, the main MC always centers itself accordingly how can I do it?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Felixz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Felixz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Felixz)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-keep-a-movieclip-centered/264672/2 "2008-06-28T12:56:29Z")

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```auto
stage.scaleMode=StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.align=StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
align();
var clip=new Clip();
stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE,align);
private function align(event:Event=null):void {
    clip.x=(stage.stageWidth - clip.width) / 2;
    clip.y=(stage.stageHeight - clip.height) / 2;
}

```

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**Author:** ![blackcoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@blackcoma](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blackcoma)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-keep-a-movieclip-centered/264672/3 "2008-06-28T12:59:46Z")

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Thanks!

what is the progressbar?  
is this supposed to be the instance name of the MC?

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**Author:** ![Felixz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Felixz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Felixz)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-keep-a-movieclip-centered/264672/4 "2008-06-28T13:02:52Z")

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Yes, I have just copy/pasted the code

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**Author:** ![blackcoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@blackcoma](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blackcoma)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-keep-a-movieclip-centered/264672/5 "2008-06-28T13:04:07Z")

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Thanks a lot!