Problem attaching external .jpgs to movie clips

Hi There,
I am not able to attach a file (.jpg) outside of flash to a
movieClip without it changing the scale of the image. Stepping
through with the debugger, its clear the image loads correctly til
it is applied to the movie clip, I assume with the attachBitmap
function. It scales it up a little more than 50% and I can't figure
out where that scale is coming from. It appears to scale up from
the upper left corner. We have checked to make sure all the
movieclips within our flash file are the exact same size as the
image files (150 X 150). Please see code example. Everything is
fine except for this. We tried using the matrix transformation to
down size the images but the quality was not acceptable even with
using smoothing and pixel snapping.
So, the basic question being, how do we use attachBitmap and
have it preserve the original size? Any ideas for how to get this
to work is greatly appreciated...
thanks,
Laura

well I'm afraid there are a few things that are not quite
right with the method here - however, the real problem is most
likely that the original image resolution is higher than 72 dpi -
it must be set at standard screen res or Flash will scale it up
uniformly to work at 72.
I think that you may have more success with something more
like this:

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fredward23 wrote:
> I am having a problem in which I have movie clips
containing tweens in a file
> containing two scenes. On publishing, the movie clips in
Scene A play fine, but
> the clips within Scene B are very choppy -- they appear
to be playing only the
> first and last frames of a tween.
>
> The tweens themselves are definitely OK -- sometimes it
happens that the clips
> from Scene B play fine, but then the ones from Scene A
don't work.
>
> To see specifically what is happening, you can go to
>
>
http://www.boston.com/news/specials/local/danvers_explosion/interactive_graphic/
>
> The file is done in two scenes -- one for the content
under the "The Blast"
> tab and one for that under "Getting Out." The pulsing
arrows on the map in "The
> Blast" are movie clips with motion tweens, and these are
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> to "Getting Out," though, and the explosion symbol on
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> expand and fade out, but as you can see, it's not
working. But as I said,
> sometimes that clip plays fine, but then the arrows (and
other clips in "The
> Blast") don't work.
>
> This is not the first time I've run into this bug, so I
don't think it is
> anything project-specific. Anybody have any ideas?
>

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