Finding the movie height and width

[Tirmie]

Is there any way to find the height and width of an .swf with actionscript? I want to move an MC to the center of the movie.

[mediaguy]

set up variables for your width and height


theWidth = 800;

theHeight = 600;


MC._x = theWidth/2;
MC._y = theHeight/2;

[Tirmie]

Well, yeah, that would work. But I'm putting this in a Smart Clip, and I don't know what movies it will be put in. So I need to retrieve the height and width with actionscript.

[Tirmie]

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[darrentheturkey]

Would

MC._x = MC._width/2;
MC._y = MC._height/2;

work?

[Tirmie]

I've tried "movieWidth = _root._width", and I get 0.

[m_andrews808]

I had this problem a while ago, and I'm afraid there isn't a solution. I think it might be possible with MX though. Not sure

[darrentheturkey]

I tried these two things in mx

text1=_level0._width;
text2=_root._width;

and they worked (gave width of actual content, not stage size) alas, I tried it in flash5 and it didn't work.

I'll be thinking of a workaround possibility.