# Scale 9 on nested movieclip?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scale-9-on-nested-movieclip/303927
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 29, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scale-9-on-nested-movieclip/303927 "2010-01-29T03:50:59Z")
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### Author: ![ohbeewan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/ohbeewan/32/1745_2.png) [@ohbeewan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ohbeewan)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scale-9-on-nested-movieclip/303927/1 "2010-01-29T03:50:59Z")

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Hey there,

I’m trying to build a styled, rounded button movieclip that I can reuse/resize. So inside a movieclip, I have two layers:

Layer 1: A border, which is a shape - a rounded rectangle (or actually the stroke of a rounded-rect).

Layer 2: A nested movieclip which contains a shape for the face of the button. I have added filters to this nested movieclip to give it a beveled-type look - typical rounded button stuff.

So, I’ve tried applying scale-9 to the parent movieclip: in this case the border scales fine, but the face (with the filters) does not. So, then I tried applying scale-9 to both the parent and the nested face movieclip, still no luck.

I want to be able have the button self contained as a clip which I can pull from the library, drop on the stage, and scale without distortion - and so far, as mentioned, I can’t figure out how the get the nested face, the one with the filters applied, to scale appropriately.

How would you approach this?

Thanks so much!