# Need help with resizing

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-resizing/311318>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 2, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-resizing/311318 "2010-07-02T16:26:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![jany](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@jany](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jany)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-resizing/311318/1 "2010-07-02T16:26:21Z")

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Hi - I am trying to accomplish the following. I can do it if I don’t change the dimensions of the picture, but if I do, it never works.

- Import picture
- Make movieClip to hold picture - mc.addChild(picture)
- Drag and drop picture(mc) anywhere
- Add one textField
- Drag and drop textField on picture(mc)

Everything noted by \* works as it should

Now I run the program and the have that same picture added by itself, in no movieClip, just as a bitMap on 0x and 0y coordinates. I also have a new textField appear on the picture exactly where I placed it before, when I was dragging and dropping. It works fine if the picture remains the same size. In this case, 700x500 pixels by doing this:

```auto
var textField2:TextField = new TextField();
var bx = movieClip.x //this is the same movieClip the original picture was in
var by = movieClip.y
textField2.x = textField.x - bx;
textField2.y = textField.y - by;

```

Again, that works fine and the new textField2 snaps into place on the new picture, exactly where I placed textField over the movieClip. The problem is, if I take the initial pictures width down to 600 (rather than 700 original) and try and repeat this process, it is way off. Even if I account for the width loss by making “bx = movieClip.x - 100”. I have no idea what is going wrong here.

If anybody could help, this would be a lifesaver.