Need help with preloader for photo gallery

Question

Hello!
I know I might be the 99999999991 to say that but I will say
it...I'm a begginer with flash and I have a problem...:-)
I'm building a photo gallery which loads jpg photos inside a
loader component by using MovieClipLoader.
Everything works just great but my only problem is that I
can't scale the content (the jpg's) to the size of the loader
component.
I tryed everything but the photos are loading bigger then the
loader, and I wnat to have the photos bigger then the loader so
that I could have good quality on any resolution. Here's the
actionscript I used, if it's necessary:
//------------------MovieClip Loader---------\\
var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader ();
var myListener:Object = new Object ();
mcLoader.addListener(myListener)
myListener.onLoadProgress = function
(target_mc,bytesLoaded,bytesTotal) {
extLoader_mc._visible = true;
var pctLoaded = Math.round(bytesLoaded/bytesTotal*100);
extLoader_mc.extLoaderBar_mc._xscale = pctLoaded;
extLoader_mc.extLoadinBarLines_mc._xscale = pctLoaded-1;
extLoader_mc.pct_txt.text = pctLoaded;
if (bytesLoaded >= bytesTotal) {
extLoader_mc._visible = false;
mcLoader.loadClip("pics/zernike1.jpg",picViewer_mc.picLoader);
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Answer 1

first of all, you can't directly resize the bitmaps, you have to resize the movieclip above it. so if needed, create an empty movieclip inside another wrapper movie clip and resize the wrapper.
then i noticed you don't have onLoadInit in your listener
this method:
myLIstener.onLoadInit=function(mc:MovieClip){
will execute commands after the content is loaded. so you will have to resize your content after it's been loaded. you can't just resize something that you loaded above in your code, you have to wait until it's fully loaded
anyways since you siad you are beginner i will list some useful tip for this job (i don't know if you already know them):
this -refers to current movie clip
this._parent -refers to parent movie cilp
width and height of movie clips are controlled by _width and _height properties, not width height