# Selective Scaling

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/selective-scaling/246714>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 13, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/selective-scaling/246714 "2007-12-13T18:32:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![thegrrraue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@thegrrraue](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thegrrraue)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/selective-scaling/246714/1 "2007-12-13T18:32:26Z")

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Does anyone have any thoughts on how to protect a single movie clip from scaling on a stage that is set to be 100% x 100%? I know that by adding “Stage.scaleMode = “noScale”;” I can stop everything from scaling, but the problem is that I want everything to scale except for one mc.

I tried altering that code to use the instance name of the movie clip rather than stage, but it didn’t seem to work.