How to make one MC react to another's change in size??

[jgordon]

So I have two movieclips. They are both rectangles, with one in front (smaller) and the larger in back (basically it's 6 pixels larger on all sides). I'm using some easing functions to resize the smaller rectangle MC when a button is pressed.

What I want to happen is I want the larger rectangle MC to always be 6 pixels larger on all sides (so 12px greater in height and in width) no matter what the size of the smaller rectangle MC.

How can I make this larger rectangle automatically react to changes in size of the smaller rectangle so that it always stays exactly proportional??

I thought about setting up some kind of onEnterFrame function where the larger rectangle MC is constantly monitoring the smaller rectangle's size but there has to be a better way.

Help!

[silentweed]

we'll have to see some of your code before being able to help any further..

[pumi]

Can somethin like this work :

onEnterFrame = function(){
LargeRec._xscale = SmallRec + 12;
LargeRec._yscale = SmallRec + 12;
}


??

[jgordon]

yeah that's pretty much how i have it working... i was just wondering if there was something more along the lines of an eventlistener... but listeners can only respond to certain events that are broadcast --- not when doing something like clicking a button to tell an MC to resize.

[pumi]

can you post the code , that you have till now ...