# Keeping large objects from affecting stagewidth

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keeping-large-objects-from-affecting-stagewidth/313159>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 22, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keeping-large-objects-from-affecting-stagewidth/313159 "2010-08-22T19:54:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![brianharms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@brianharms](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/brianharms)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keeping-large-objects-from-affecting-stagewidth/313159/1 "2010-08-22T19:54:39Z")

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I have a large movieclip that I am adding to the stage (large in dimension, not filesize). Once it is there I plan to manipulate it’s X position by clicking different parts of the movieclip. Unfortunately, where I am moving the clip to is based on stage.stageWidth, which changes as soon as you add this movieclip to the stage. So I can’t make any accurate tweens or anything like that. Is there a way I can set objects to not affect the screen width when they are loaded? Or still access the property of the actual window’s width?

Thanks so much,  
-Brian