# Scaling Movieclip... please help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scaling-movieclip-please-help/179412>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 20, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scaling-movieclip-please-help/179412 "2006-02-20T00:28:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![e\_k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@e\_k](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/e_k)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scaling-movieclip-please-help/179412/1 "2006-02-20T00:28:34Z")

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hello everyone!

I am a newbie… i hope someone can help me here…

I have a map (drawn in flash) which is in a movie clip titled “map” and instance as “map\_drag”.

This instance can be dragged using the startDrag(); and stopDrag(); (simple dragging so far…)

According to my design, **I want to load this movieclip onto the main stage at a percentage of 50%** (as the original movieclip has a width of nearly 1200 pixels…)

I have tried setting the movieclip property

map\_drag.\_xscale = 50;  
map\_drag.\_yscale = 50;

but i think i am getting confused about what handler to put this code on to **and where to put this code, on the movieclip instance or the timeline???**

please help me out here…

Thanks