ScaleX and Y for stretching MovieClip

Question

I'm developing a game, and the game has a shop. In that shop there is an option for a house expansion. This is a movieclip that I want the user to be able to spend their coins to increase their house in the following ways:

-> stretch house to right <- stretch house to left ^ stretch house upward v stretch house downward.

The thing is, I've been thinking of using ScaleX and ScaleY to accomplish this. The only problem: It stretches the left and right, I can't make it do one. I'm sure there is a way to do this, but I haven't yet figured it out. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Change the registration point of movieclip from "center" to x=0 and y=0 . Keeping the registration point in the center, causes the movieclip to stretch on both the sides equally.

Answer 2

Set up the stage:

var num:Number = 10;

Change mc to your MovieClip

For up:

mc.height += num;
mc.y -= num/2;

For down:

mc.height += num;
mc.y += num/2;

For left:

mc.width+=num;
mc.x -= num/2;

For right:

mc.width+=num;
mc.x+=num/2;