Change document dimensions based on movieclip

[Litow]

Hi There. This must be a simple one, as I dont see anyone else having this problem.

I would like to dynamically change the height of my flash document based on the height of a movie clip, but keep the movie clip size as it is. My keyframe's as3 looks something like this:

import flash.display.StageAlign;
import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
import flash.events.Event;
import library.News;

latestNews = new News();
addChild(latestNews);

StageSettings();

function StageSettings()
{
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
}


.. and in the News class Im just creating some text in a movie clip. Problem is that when I want to rescale the document's height to make all the news visible, if I call:

this.height = MyMovieClip.height;

everything scale, but the document. If I call:

stage.height = MyMovieClip.height;

I get an error that stage does not support that property.

I also tried:

stage.stageHeight = MyMovieClip.height;

but nothing changes visually. The document's height stays the same.


I assume there must be a call that allows me to keep the movieclip scale but just change the flash document dimensions?
thanks in advance

[cancerinform]

You cannot change the stage size. Height and width are read-only properties. You would have to change your browser settings in the html as well.

[Litow]

That is what I thought after reading a few sites.
Thank you for the feedback, appreciated.