flash actionscript: This comes up quite often... your code is executing before the clip has a
chance to load. You want to be using the MovieClipLoader class. That has the
onLoadInit event that fires once the clip is completely downloaded - in
there is where you want to resize it. You can use the class as simply as
this:

var myLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var myListener = new Object();

myListener.onLoadInit = function(target:MovieClip){
target._x - 206;
target._y = 32;
target._width = 320;
target._height = 240;
}

myLoader.addListener(myListener);
myLoader.loadClip("some.swf", holderMC);

Using this class, you also get the onLoadProgress event which makes it very
easy to build progress bars for.


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I think that I'm close, I can position the new MC on the stage ok and it does
sort of resize, but I just can't get this to work.

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("holderMC",1);
_root.holderMC.loadMovie(myArray);

_root.holderMC._x = 205.9;
_root.holderMC._y = 32;
_root.holderMC._xscale = 320;
_root.holderMC._yscale = 240;