loadMovie problems

[DerekC]

Hi, I'm trying to follow a tutorial in the Flash 5 Bible although I'm using Flash MX.It involves loadMovie. The tutorial states that if you use loadMovie to import a swf into an empty movie holder the loaded movie should take on the same dimensions as the movie holder. However when I test the fla the loaded movie is still it's original size. The code (which is identical to the code in the example fla on the accompanying cd) is attached to a button on the main stage:
loadMovie("whatever.swf","movieHolder");
I am about to take on some contracted work involving this scripting and it's been driving me nuts. Can anyone help and tell me what I'm doing wrong
Cheers derekc

[pellepiano]

Its the other way around. The empty movieclips will get the dimensions of the loaded swf.

To target the loaded swf , you call it with the name of the empty movieclip ( container is often used as a name for it ).
So to change the dimensions of the loaded swf...

container._width=350;
container._height=350;

The dimensions can only be changed after the external swf has started to load.