Here is some later code. I've gotten the image to load, but it isn't
the correct size at all. The outer blue box is 320x240, but the image
(little_chapel-Athens.jpg, currently 560x420) never gets to the 320x240
size (nor does the secondary box created on the mouseclick, for that
matter if done without the image). Why are the traces for square_mc1
160 and 120 respectively (indicating that the code has set the proper
pixel size for the image), yet the image isn't being sized correctly
when I have explicitly set the size?

PLEASE? Can someone help me understand why I can't correctly scale down
jpgs? Am I doing something wrong?

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_root.createEmptyMovieClip("holder", 500);
wide = 320;
high = 240;
half_wide = wide*.5;
half_high = high*.5;
padW = half_wide*.125;
padH = half_high*.125;
//lightorange
//bxcolr = 0xFFaa22;
//blue
bxcolr = 0x22aaFF;
//green
//bxcolr=0x11BB33;
with (holder) {
lineStyle(1, bxcolr, 100);
beginFill(bxcolr, 13);
moveTo(1, 1);
lineTo(wide, 1);
lineTo(wide, high);
lineTo(1, high);
lineTo(1, 1);
endFill();
}
holder.onMouseDown = function() {
holder.duplicateMovieClip("square_mc1", 1000, "holder");
square_mc1.loadMovie("little_chapel-Athens.jpg", 500);
/* image's height had to be divided just to get close to 320 wide! */
square_mc1._width = wide/2;
square_mc1._height = high/2;
square_mc1._x = padW;
square_mc1._y = padH;
holder.createTextField("text", 300, half_wide*.5, high+10, 25, 25);
with (holder.text) {
selectable = false;
autosize = true;
text = "hi, hello, howdy, what's up? Nothing?, So what are you doing?";
}
trace(square_mc1._width);
trace(square_mc1._height);
};



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