Resize attached movie clip

Hi,
I have a movie clip to which I attach several others always
at the same depth so one replaces the other. I was trying to change
the size of the attached movies by setting the ._width and ._height
properties and also by using the xscale without any luck. I finally
experimented with a tutorial example and got it to work and saw
that the only difference between the code in the example and my own
was the depth which I had set to 1 and the tutorial had set to 0. I
changed my depth to 0 and it worked.
I didn't see anything specifying that the depth had to be 0
and believe I am still missing something. If anyone cna help me
figure out what's going on I would appreciate it.
Thanks
Chris

From the location of the code, the relative path to newSlide
is
full_mc.newSlide as newSlide is in full_mc.
Thus you want:
function updateStage() {
full_mc.attachMovie(mySlide, "newSlide", 0);
full_mc.newSlide._width = 561;
full_mc.newSlide._height = 421;
full_mc.newSlide._x = 0;
full_mc.newSlide._y = 0;
Also note that you can do:
full_mc.attachMovie(mySlide, "newSlide",
0,{_x:0,_y:0,_width:561,_height:421});
Look up attachMovie for the optional initObect
parameter.

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