ActionScript 2.0 :: Setting A Movieclips Width, Without Scaling It?
Jan 18, 2008
I have been hacking together two different tutorials to create a menu with changing images, and some animating text. Everything looks great, except the menuitems, which i try to resize dynamically depending on the menuitem-movieclip-contained dynamictext. When i resize this movieclip, the whole movieclip scales, and everything looks odd.
this is my first flash project on my own, so be nice :-)
fla file can be found at: [URL]
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