Is there a way to mask a movie clip in a way that alters the width and height of the object? I have a child movie clip that is larger in width so I'm having issues manipulating the width, height and coordinates proportionally of the parent movie clip.
I appreciate the help. Thank you.
It might help to work with the _xscale and _yscale properties of the parent (rather than the _height and _width), since these aren't affected by how big the child object is.
So if your parentClip is 50 wide x 80 high, then to re-size it to 150 x 160 you do
parentClip._xscale=3; parentClip._yscale=2;//still works even after child is added
(This is for AS2, but the code would be something similar for AS3... your question wasn't specific)
Colin Moock has a good write-up on the subject here, including a kind of cumbersome way to get the visible width and height instead of the width and height of the content, via a bitmap:
You could also grab the dimensions of the mask itself rather than the movieclip.