Why doesn't it work?

[BonzoHarry]

basically my problem is this, i have this picture, and when you click it i need it to assign 2 variables: varX and varY, heres the code:

on (release) {
place = "images/1";
loadMovie(place+".jpg", "size");
varY = getProperty("/size", _height)*.273333;
varX = getProperty("/size", _width)*.16375;
gotoAndPlay(4);
}

-this code is on the thumbnail-

What's happening, is you click on a thumbnail of image 1, an offscreen movie "size" loads the full picture, and i'm trying to get the width and height of movie "size" and multiply it by those numbers, and set them to there according varX or varY. It just doesn't function like it should, and i feel like i'm missing something obvious....

[BonzoHarry]

help?

[4Sheezy]

You need to check to see if the thing has loaded before checking properties of it.

[BonzoHarry]

but by putting the loadmovie before the getproperties i thought i was...maybe not.

[oldnewbie]

Surely not!

[BonzoHarry]

well, nuts...and thanks. Hopefully this will fix it. If so, i will be elated.