# Xscale problem
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xscale-problem/65957
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 30, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xscale-problem/65957 "2004-09-30T22:22:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@dru\_nasty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dru_nasty)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xscale-problem/65957/1 "2004-09-30T22:22:43Z")
I’ve just got a simple mc on stage of a rectangle.
I want the clip to go from its full width, then scale down to nothing and stop.
```auto
onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
this._xscale-=5;
}
```
The above code starts what I want, but I don’t want it to continue into the negative.(if that makes sense)
So I came up with this but its not working:
```auto
onClipEvent(load){
origWidth = this._width
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
if(origWidth>=126) {
this._xscale-=5;
}else if (origWidth<=0) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}
```
I’m probably making this more complicated than it should be.
Oh, and ‘126’ is the actual width of the clip in the properties inspector.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xscale-problem/65957/2 "2004-09-30T23:10:44Z")
How about:
onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
if (this.\_xscale\>0) {
this.\_xscale-=5;
}
}
---
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xscale-problem/65957/3 "2004-09-30T23:38:28Z")
> I’m probably making this more complicated than it should be.
:lol:
thanks mate, that’s it.