# Image Scaling

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/image-scaling/84948>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 31, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/image-scaling/84948 "2005-03-31T18:57:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Digitalosophy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/digitalosophy/32/1114_2.png) [@Digitalosophy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Digitalosophy)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/image-scaling/84948/1 "2005-03-31T18:57:04Z")

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Of course Ive been through the famous dynamic image resize gallery, however…

I find it hard to believe there is not a simple way of controlling the width and height of an image loaded into a movieclip. I don’t need an animation of it, I just need it to scale.

Could please explain to me why this does not work.

```auto

file = "image100430.jpg";
loadMovie(file, "holder");
file._width = 150;
file._height = 150;

```

Thanks  
-D