MovieClip resizeing

I have a movieClip attached to an external class file, the
class file takes data and uses it to draw an bar chart ino the
movieClip.
If you re-size the movieClip and then compile everything
displays correctly but obviously all elements in the movieClip are
enlarged/shrunk depending on how you re-sized.
I want to make my movieClip so that when it is resized
certain elements stay their original size (text size, line
thickness) and others are enlarged/shrunk to match the movieClip
size (fill areas).
How would i go about doing this, can it be done.
The same as how when you re-size a component the text etc.
stays the same size (and the position updates) but fill areas are
enlarged/shrunk.

Tolk,
> I want to make my movieClip so that when it is
> resized certain elements stay their original size
> (text size, line thickness) and others are enlarged/
> shrunk to match the movieClip size (fill areas).
> How would i go about doing this, can it be done.
You can check into 9-slice scaling, a feature new as of
Flash 8. Search
the phrase "About 9-slice scaling and movie clip symbols" in
the
documentation. Other than that, it's a matter of noting the
clip's
MovieClip._xscale and _yscale properties and cycling through
to manually
adjust nested _xscale and _yscales accordingly to compensate.
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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I use an embed statement to pull the movieclip from the swf at compile time. It comes in just fine (as a Sprite since that seems to be the only way to instantiate an object from an external swf), you can see it without a hitch, but tracing out the size info does not return the same WxH as the original.
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Ensure that your mbg sprite is located at coords 0,0 for it to return the information that you're expecting. As for the width and height of the mbg being different than expected, you might want to check if there's been any scaling applied to it by tracing out ".scaleX" and ".scaleY"
Normally, when I know something should be a very specific size, and it's not, I'll force .scaleX and .scaleY to a value of 1, which will return them to normal scaling. (Scales are changed when width/height are changed, so checking these values will also check for changes in width and height)
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problem definition:
To build android application using existing desktop dimension fla fies , I am resizing that files to mobile dimension and publishing with air fo android 16 . In this process some fla's are not resizing properly I mean the content is not matching with stage
                  In one post I saw that by copying frames in movie clip we can adjust with stage . I did this and made an application but the swf's which are following the movieclip resized swf are going out of stage
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original file dimension: 800 * 600 px
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                                       anyone please suggest me to solve this problem
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problem definition:
To build android application using existing desktop dimension fla fies , I am resizing that files to mobile dimension and publishing with air fo android 16 . In this process some fla's are not resizing properly I mean the content is not matching with stage
                  In one post I saw that by copying frames in movie clip we can adjust with stage . I did this and made an application but the swf's which are following the movieclip resized swf are going out of stage
development tool : adobe flash professsional cc
extension : air for android 16
original file dimension: 800 * 600 px
new dimension required is : 2650 * 1600 px ( to get full screen view)
                                       anyone please suggest me to solve this problem
when I resized using copy frames in movie clip the output swf is coming with white screen . If I played with package it coming properly but the files which are following this are going out of stage
Thanks&regards
K.Niranjan

Static sized movieclips

Let me try to explain this the best I can.
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Let me try to explain this the best I can.
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