Scale parts of an object

[domconlon]

I want to scale a movieclip but keep a nested movieclip within that the same
size. Is there any way of doing this? At first I thought I could just do the
following code:

this._parent._xscale = this._parent._xscale + 10;
this._parent._yscale = this._parent._yscale + 10;
this._xscale = this._xscale - 10;
this._yscale = this._yscale - 10;

but I was being exceptionally dumb and forgetting the percents of different
sizes will produce different results I-'.

any ideas?

[CesareRocchi]

Get _width and _height of the nested object before scaling down its parent.
Whenever you scale the parent set the dimensions of the nested element to the
values
you have retrieved. Don't know about the visual effect. Maybe you could hide
the mc
during scaling ...

HTH,

-c.

[domconlon]

Ah of course. Many thanks.