# loadMovie help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-help/126086>\
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**Created:** [October 20, 2004, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-help/126086 "2004-10-20T12:37:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![bjory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@bjory](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bjory)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-help/126086/1 "2004-10-20T12:37:17Z")

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I doing a list of dynamic buttons and on the button has a thumbnail(jpg).

I used the following codes to make sure the jpeg are resized according to the size I want.

CheckLoad = function()  
{  
if (this.thumbNail.\_width \> 0 && this.thumbNail.getBytesLoaded() \>= this.thumbHolder.getBytesTotal())  
{  
this.thumbNail.\_width = 65;  
this.thumbNail.\_height = 49;  
delete this.onEnterFrame;  
}  
}

GenerateMenu = function()  
{  
for (var i = startBtn; i \< endBtn; i++)  
{  
\_root.attachMovie(“menuBtn”, “menuBtn” + i, depth);  
\_root[“menuBtn” + i].\_x = 644.5;  
\_root[“menuBtn” + i].\_y = 161.1 + setHeight \* \_root[“menuBtn” + i].\_height;  
\_root[“menuBtn” + i].btnName.text = eval(“recData.Name” + i);  
\_root[“menuBtn” + i].exerciseID = eval(“recData.ExID” + i);  
picFile = “something.jpg”  
\_root[“menuBtn” + i].thumbHolder.loadMovie(picFile);  
\_root[“menuBtn” + i].thumbHolder.onEnterFrame = checkload;  
}  
}

It doesn’t work. The thumbnail does not show any pictures. What I do is I do an empty MC (thumbNail) and load the jpeg into the MC. It doesn’t work.

Can someone have a look on it?

Another question is that I have loaded a swf movie into a MC call movieHolder. I put the movieHolder on the stage. Apparently, the swf movie does not take the size of the movieHolder. How can I make the swf movie take the size of the movieHolder?

I use loadMovie(“something.swf” , “movieHolder”);