# Possible to set the size of a movie clip?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-set-the-size-of-a-movie-clip/75239
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 7, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-set-the-size-of-a-movie-clip/75239 "2005-01-07T02:05:52Z")
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### Author: ![bobbyulcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bobbyulcar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bobbyulcar)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-set-the-size-of-a-movie-clip/75239/1 "2005-01-07T02:05:52Z")

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[font=verdana, arial, helvetica][size=2]Hi all,

I am trying to buil a site with the navigation buttons acroos the top affecting the main portion of my screen. The way I have this set up is by clicking on the “retail” button, AS will yield this:

[size=1]on (release) {  
\_root.contents.loadMovie(“retail.swf”);  
}[/size]

I have a movie clip with the instance named “contents” which I would like to give height restrictions to.

My problem is that the retail section of my site has a vertical thumbnail image scroller, which, when clicked displays a larger image to its left, but when loaded into the screen everything in that .swf file scrolls vertically.

The way I wrote the AS for the scroller requires me to enter the total width and height of the scene.

I hope that isn’t poorly described - any help would be great.

Thanks!![/size][/font]