A co-worker approached me with a problem today. He wanted to resize a parent Sprite (or MovieClip, DisplayObject, etc) without resizing the child Sprite. So, in a nutshell, here’s how you do it:

[ActionScript]

_mcParent._mcChild.scaleX = 1 / _mcParent.scaleX;
_mcParent._mcChild.scaleY = 1 / _mcParent.scaleY;
_mcParent._mcChild.x = _nChildStartX / _mcParent.scaleX;
_mcParent._mcChild.y = _nChildStartY / _mcParent.scaleY;

[/ActionScript]

And here’s a simple demo to illustrate the problem and the solution:

Resizing a Parent Sprite without Resizing the child Sprite

demo | source (.fla)

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