# What's the syntax for the size of the entire movie?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-the-syntax-for-the-size-of-the-entire-movie/5653
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 18, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-the-syntax-for-the-size-of-the-entire-movie/5653 "2002-09-18T19:19:34Z")
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Twinkles](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mr_Twinkles)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-the-syntax-for-the-size-of-the-entire-movie/5653/1 "2002-09-18T19:19:34Z")
I want to move an movie clip according to the size of the entire flash movie, rather than just the movie clip. Anyone know the correct way to do this?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-the-syntax-for-the-size-of-the-entire-movie/5653/2 "2002-09-18T22:16:42Z")
Can you be more specific.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-the-syntax-for-the-size-of-the-entire-movie/5653/3 "2002-09-18T23:35:07Z")
hrmmm well.
You want to know the size of the main stage so that you can know when the movie clip goes off that stage or something like that? there probably is an thing th get the x size and y size of the stage…i usualy just use numbers… like 550 for width and 400 for height. unless you are changing the size of the stage…it doesn’t really matter 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 3:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-the-syntax-for-the-size-of-the-entire-movie/5653/4 "2002-09-19T03:52:54Z")
yeah, that’s the way i’m doing it now, but i just wanted to know so i can use a relative instead of absolute, just in case some parameters of the movie change during development. thanks for your help, but if you ever find a way to do this let me know.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 6:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-the-syntax-for-the-size-of-the-entire-movie/5653/5 "2002-09-19T06:36:40Z")
in mx:
Stage.width
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 6:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-the-syntax-for-the-size-of-the-entire-movie/5653/6 "2002-09-19T06:37:22Z")
With MX, you can get the scene dimensions with Stage.width and Stage.height. And I believe that you could use getBounds to get them with Flash 5. I’ll check that.
pom :asian:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-the-syntax-for-the-size-of-the-entire-movie/5653/7 "2002-09-19T06:38:40Z")
No fast enough… ☹