# Navigation and movieclip positioning help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/navigation-and-movieclip-positioning-help/317349>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 17, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/navigation-and-movieclip-positioning-help/317349 "2010-12-17T14:22:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![strawberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@strawberry](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/strawberry)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/navigation-and-movieclip-positioning-help/317349/1 "2010-12-17T14:22:41Z")

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I have the main swf that loads my main menu

```auto

this.createEmptyMovieClip("empty_mc",1); 
empty_mc.loadMovie("topmenu.swf");

```

The topmenu.swf contains my buttons (of course) and it should load the pages movieclips (about, services etc)  
I tried loading the about swf using this code:  
on the button:

```auto

about_btn.onRelease = function(){
gotoAndStop("about");
}

```

on the time line:

```auto

loadMovie("about_clip.swf", "_root.container_about");

```

My first question is: am I being too complicate loading the swfs? is there an easier way to do it?

Update: I was able to center the movieclip using this code  
about\_page.\_x=0;  
about\_page.\_y = (Stage.height / 2) - (about\_page.\_height / 2)  
however, it appears centered left only when I actually resize the browser, otherwise it appears at the bottom left…why is that happening? anyone had similar problem before?