# Manipulating swf loaded into main movie problems

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/manipulating-swf-loaded-into-main-movie-problems/133984>\
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**Created:** [January 13, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/manipulating-swf-loaded-into-main-movie-problems/133984 "2005-01-13T16:40:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![jillymo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f9b8f/32.png) [@jillymo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jillymo)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/manipulating-swf-loaded-into-main-movie-problems/133984/1 "2005-01-13T16:40:50Z")

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I am trying to change some properties of a movie that I have loaded into my main swf using the loadMovie command. I am applying the code to the instance of the movie clip that the movie is loaded into.

I can load the movie in no problem, but when I try to get to the manipulation part is where I am running into problems. I have been searching through previous posts here and was referring to this one:[http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=79640](http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=79640)  
for guidance in making certain that the clip is loaded before the script runs to (in this case) scale the clip.

Right now, once I apply the code it is not working and it is unloading an image that was previously loaded into the file. I have checked to make sure that I am not loading into the same level.

The loaded swf that I am trying to scale is the text that comes in that says “A Catholic Church Organization Serving the Church”

[You can see the swf before I try to scale the clip](http://www.cbservices.org/cbs/test/jill/cbs.swf)

[and after](http://www.cbservices.org/cbs/test/jill/cbs2.swf)

Here is the code before:

\_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“text”, 12);  
\_root.text.loadMovie(“serving.swf”);  
\_root.text.\_x = 165;  
\_root.text.\_y = 350;

And the code after:

\_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“text”, 12);  
\_root.loadMovie(“serving.swf”, text);  
\_root.text.\_x = 165;  
\_root.text.\_y = 350;  
\_root.onEnterFrame = function() {  
if (\_root.text.getBytesLoaded()\>=\_root.text.getBytesTotal()) {  
MovieClip.prototype.grow = function(a,b) {  
this.\_xscale += b;  
this.\_yscale = this.\_xscale;  
if (this.\_xscale\>a-1 && this.\_xscale\<a+1) {  
delete this.onEnterFrame;  
}  
}  
}  
};  
\_root.text.onEnterFrame = function() {  
this.grow(250,50);  
}

If I should post the fla, please let me know.