MovieClip Resize Problems!

Greetings,

I’m Just learning FLASH AS3 for about 3 weeks now and I’m stuck on this very simple problem. I want to resize a MovieClip (Image) to fit inside another MovieClip (LayoutArea). The problem is when I dynamically resize the movieClip the movieClip is way smaller than the supposed to be size. I use trace to check for the size and it shows the correct size but the display is not correct.

example: trace results - width = 220, height = 220 . Actual Displayed MovieClip = approx. width = 50, height = 50 .

Heres the affected code :

function setImageInsideLayoutArea(a:Object, b:Object) : void {
	
	if(b.height > b.width) {
		a.width = b.width;
		a.height = b.width;

		
	} else {
		a.width = b.height;
	    a.height = b.height;	

	}
	
	alignCenter(a, B);

	
}

Heres the whole code:

layoutArea.width = 220;
layoutArea.height = 150;

var xx:addedDesignMc = new addedDesignMc;

xx.image.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, imageLoaded);

xx.image.source = "Designs/designs/1.png";


function imageLoaded(e:Event) :void {
	
	stage.addChild(xx);
	
	setImageInsideLayoutArea(xx, layoutArea);
	
}

function setImageInsideLayoutArea(a:Object, b:Object) : void {
	
	if(b.height > b.width) {
		a.width = b.width;
		a.height = b.width;

		
	} else {
		a.width = b.height;
	    a.height = b.height;	

	}
	
	alignCenter(a, B);

	
}

function alignCenter( objectA: Object , objectB: Object) {
	
	objectA.x = (objectB.width/2 - objectA.width/2) + objectB.x;
	objectA.y = (objectB.height/2 - objectA.height/2) + objectB.y;
	
}





Other details:

First MovieClip that needs to be resized contains a uiLoader for loading images.

I can’t attached the source file due to attachment size limitation.

Thanks in advance…