how to detect width & height of Container MovieClip

[firegambler]

Hi,

I am trying to make a container MovieClip in which I would like to load another Movie.
The loaded Movie would have to know, what size the container would have in order to set the position of some images dynamically.

Is there a way to get the ClipHolder's width and height?
I tried to use _parent._width on the main timeline of the loaded movie to retrieve the values but the results I got were always weird...

thanks in advance!

 

[oldnewbie]

You cannot access a container's width & height, until what's loading into it has been fully loaded...

The method is then usually something along these lines...

Set the container'sa alpha to 0.
Load the content, and monitor the loading with some preloading code.
Once you get the width & height, when the preloading is over, position the container clip on stage, based on it's width & height.
Set the container's alpha back to 100.

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[firegambler]

Hi Oldnewbie, thanks for your answer!

So do I interpret your answer correctly when saying that from within the loaded movie I can not find out the size of the container the movie was loaded to?