Getting Width and Height of loadMovie swf??

[crisward]

I am loading an animated movie clip with...

myclip.loadMovie("myswf.swf");

then trying to get the width and height with

mywidth = myclip._width
myheight = myclip._height

problem is that the size I get back is the size of the animated element and not the stage size it was created on. Is there anyway of getting its stage size??? Because the animation is moving in an out of its stage the size also keeps changing.. Help, this is driving me around the twist.

Cris.

[j_sarge36]

Have you tried applying a mask in the swf file that is being loaded? That would make it so that it stays within it's movie size.